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Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis: Analysis of Treatment and Outcome [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1991
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis occurred on 44 separate occasions in 43 patients during a five year period, including 27 culture positive and 17 probable cases of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. Alcoholic liver disease was the underlying cause of 72%
Gary H Victor, Steven M Opal
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Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in patients with cirrhosis: incidence, outcomes, and treatment strategies

Hepatic Medicine: Evidence and Research, 2019
Sebastián Marciano,1,2 Juan Manuel Díaz,1 Melisa Dirchwolf,3 Adrián Gadano1,2 1Liver Unit, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2Department of Research, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires ...
Marciano S, Diaz JM, Dirchwolf M, Gadano A   +3 more
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Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Subclinical Hypothyroidism [PDF]

Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2013
Hypothyroidism is an uncommon cause of ascites. Here we describe a case of a 75 year-old female patient with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and subclinical hypothyroidism that resolved with thyroid replacement and antibiotic therapy respectively ...
Dalip Gupta, Preyander Thakur, Vivek Chabra, Munish, Gaurav Kapur, Sachin Sondhi   +5 more
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Spontaneous peritonitis in critically ill cirrhotic patients: a diagnostic algorithm for clinicians and future perspectives

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2017
Marco Fiore,1 Alberto Enrico Maraolo,2 Sebastiano Leone,3 Ivan Gentile,2 Arturo Cuomo,4 Vincenzo Schiavone,5 Sabrina Bimonte,4 Maria Caterina Pace,1 Marco Cascella4 1Department of Anaesthesiological, Surgical and Emergency Sciences, University of ...
Fiore M, Maraolo AE, Leone S, Gentile I, Cuomo A, Schiavone V, Bimonte S, Pace MC, Cascella M   +8 more
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Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 1995
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is an infection of the ascitic fluid without obvious intra-abdominal source of sepsis; usually complicates advanced liver disease.
Al Amri Saleh
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A Patient of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Hepatitis C Cirrhosis Caused by Gordonia terrae: A Case Report [PDF]

Infection and Drug Resistance
Wei Zheng, Jianhua Liu, Haixia Bai, Xin Xu, Lina Wu, Xiaosong Qin Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Liaoning Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Shengyang, People’s Republic of ...
Zheng W, Liu J, Bai H, Xu X, Wu L, Qin X
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Leucocyte Esterase Reagent Strips for Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Cirrhosis With Ascites. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) in patients with liver cirrhosis and ascites is a common and serious problem which is associated with high morbidity and mortality. The present study aimed to determine the diagnostic performance of the leucocyte esterase reagent strip (LERS) for the diagnosis of SBP, and we also ...
Mwinyi SA, Sindato EM, Muhimbura E, Kawishe GJ, Yahaya JJ.   +4 more
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Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis: A Rare Complication of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Biomedicines
Approximately 3% of all diagnosed cases of ascites are of cardiac etiology. Although more commonly associated with heart failure, pulmonary arterial hypertension is a known but rare cause of cardiac ascites, which has not been associated with spontaneous
Taylor Beckmann, Nicholas Pavlatos, Dinesh K. Kalra   +2 more
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Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis Caused by Infection with Listeria monocytogenes

Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2008
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is a severe and life-threatening complication in patients with ascites caused by advanced liver disease. The organisms most commonly involved are coliform bacteria and third-generation cephalosporins are the empiric ...
Michael Vincent F. Tablang
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Targeted decrease of portal hepatic pressure gradient improves ascites control after TIPS

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
The river diagram demonstrates that after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt insertion (TIPS) the majority of patients without ascites and 50% of the patients with ascites detectable at ultrasound, show the best response in the long term follow‐up.
Alexander Queck, Louise Schwierz, Wenyi Gu, Philip G. Ferstl, Christian Jansen, Frank E. Uschner, Michael Praktiknjo, Johannes Chang, Maximilian J. Brol, Filippo Schepis, Manuela Merli, Christian P. Strassburg, Jennifer Lehmann, Carsten Meyer, Jonel Trebicka   +14 more
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