Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis Before Liver Transplantation Does Not Affect Patient Survival

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Mounzer, Rawad ^a   Malik, Shahid M ^a   Nasr, John ^a   Madani, Bahar ^a   Devera, Michael E ^b   Ahmad, Jawad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver Transplantation; Outcomes; Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SPONTANEOUS BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; SURVIVAL TIME; UMBILICAL HERNIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMPLICATION; LIVER DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; SURVIVAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953681451     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2010.04.013     Document Type: Article

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