Patient with cirrhosis and presumed spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

Chest

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jones, Robert A ^a   Tabbut, Matthew ^a   Shaman, Ziad ^a   Gramer, Diane ^a  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIVERTICULOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PARACENTESIS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SIGMOID; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUID THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PARACENTESIS; PERITONITIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84903846794     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-2997     Document Type: Article

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