Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in patients with hepatic cirrhosis: Evaluation of a treatment protocol at specialized units

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 478-481

  Dinis Ribeiro, M ^a   Cortez Pinto, H ^a   Marinho, R ^a   Valente, A ^a   Raimundo, M ^a   Salgado, Ma J ^a   Ramalho, F ^a   Alexandrino, P ^a   Carneiro de Moura, M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Hepatic cirrhosis; Specialized units; Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TIME OF DEATH; TREATMENT PLANNING; BACTERIUM; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CEFOTAXIME; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLINS; PERITONITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036675475     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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