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Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis Beyond the Usual Suspects: Case Series of Salmonella and Brucella With Comprehensive Literature Review. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
Almasri H, Mahmoud E, Ahmed AI, Alkorbi HA, Ahmed A, Abbarh S, Sawaf B.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

SPONTANEOUS BACTERIAL PERITONITIS IN ASYMPTOMATIC CIRRHOTIC PATIENTS WITH ASCITES IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2020
Objective: To determine the frequency of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in asymptomatic cirrhotic patients with ascites. Study Design: Cross-sectional study.
Asif Aziz, Sarwat Ashraf, Mir Tahir Hussain Talpur, Nasrullah Aamer, Sagheer Ahmed Solangi, Khalil Ullah Shabir, Moiz Ahmed, Kiran Abbas   +7 more
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Clinical features of alcoholic hepatitis in latinos and caucasians: A single center experience. [PDF]

, 2017
AimTo study differences of presentation, management, and prognosis of alcoholic hepatitis in Latinos compared to Caucasians.MethodsWe retrospectively screened 876 charts of Caucasian and Latino patients who were evaluated at University of California ...
Durbin-Johnson, Blythe, Halsted, Charles H, Medici, Valentina, Pinon-Gutierrez, Rogelio   +3 more
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Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of hepatorenal syndrome in cirrhosis [PDF]

, 2007
Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is a serious complication of end-stage liver disease, occurring mainly in patients with advanced cirrhosis and ascites, who have marked circulatory dysfunction,1 as well as in patients with acute liver failure.2 In spite of its
Angeli P, Arroyo V, BERNARDI, MAURO, Blendis L, Di Bona G, Garcia Tsao G, Gerbes A, Ginès P, Guevara M, Gülberg V, Henriksen JH, Kamath P, Lee S, Moore K, Moreau R, Mullen K, Ortega R, Ruiz del Arbol L, Salerno F, Sanyal A, Terg R., Wong F   +21 more
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The burden of clostridium difficile infection in patients with liver cirrhosis [PDF]

, 2019
Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) has registered a dramatically increasing incidence in the general population over the past decades. Nowadays, Clostridium Difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in Europe and North America ...
Dumitru, Andrada, Emanuela, Popoiag R, Micu, Sergiu I, Moraru, Despina, Musat, Marilena, Preda, Gabriel   +5 more
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EVALUATION OF LEUKOCYTE ESTERASE REAGENT STRIPS TEST IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF SPONTANEOUS BACTERIAL PERITONITIS IN CHILDREN WITH CIRRHOSIS

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2015
BackgroundSpontaneous bacterial peritonitis is defined as an ascetic fluid infection without an evident intra-abdominal surgically treatable source.
Naser HONAR, Bita GERAMIZADEH, Seyed-Mohsen DEHGHANI, Gholamreza KALVANDI, Iraj SHAHRAMIAN, Asghar RAHMANI, Hazhir JAVAHERIZADEH   +6 more
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The incidence of portal vein thrombosis at liver transplantation [PDF]

, 1992
The incidence of portal vein thrombosis was examined in 885 patients who received orthotopic liver transplantations for various end‐stage liver diseases between 1989 and 1990. The thrombosis was classified into four grades.
Iwatsuki, S, Nonami, T, Starzl, TE, Yokoyama, I   +3 more
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Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis

AACN Advanced Critical Care, 2009
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a frequent and serious complication of ascites in the presence of advanced cirrhosis. Although SBP can be considered in other conditions associated with the presence of chronic ascites, SBP is most commonly associated with ascites from cirrhosis and its presence correlates with more advanced liver disease ...
Erica, Horinek, Doug, Fish
openaire   +4 more sources

Extrahepatic complications of liver transplantation. [PDF]

, 1985
The massive surgical assault associated with hepatic transplantation makes a high frequency of complications almost inevitable. In this review of 225 patient records, selected at random from cases of liver transplantation in Pittsburgh over a 2 1/2 year ...
Shaw, BW, Starzl, TE, Wood, RP
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Spontaneous pneumococcal peritonitis diagnosed by qPCR

IDCases, 2019
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is an uncommon manifestation of invasive pneumococcal disease and frequently occurs when an underlying hepatic disease is present. Bacterial identification through culture can be particularly challenging in patients with
Daniel Jarovsky, Thais Grodzicki Ambrus, Mariana Galvão Gurgel, Marcelo Jenné Mimica, Mariana Volpe Arnoni, Flávia Jacqueline Almeida, Marco Aurélio Palazzi Sáfadi, Eitan Naaman Berezin   +7 more
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