Antibiotic prophylaxis of pancreatic infection in patients with necrotizing pancreatitis: Rationale, evidence, and recommendations

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 121-126

  Moyshenyat, Issac ^b   Mandell, Ephraim ^b   Tenner, Scott ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PLACEBO; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PANCREAS SURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; COLON; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; NECROSIS; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 33645535767     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-006-0007-7     Document Type: Review

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