Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: pathogenesis, diagnosis and management.
Diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis of
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis : a consensus document.
Patients (10%) were found to have
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis evident by absolute neutrophilic count greater than 250/mm3.
Arroyo et al., "Effect of intravenous albumin on renal impairment and mortality in patients with cirrhosis and
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis," The New England Journal of Medicine, vol.
To study clinical profile of
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and its variants.
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) was first described by Conn in 19642.
When you see a patient who is admitted with liver failure from cirrhosis and has ascites, who is not bleeding but is deteriorating and whose kidney and liver function tests are going downhill, think all the time of
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, he advised.
A diagnosis of
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis associated with alcoholic liver cirrhosis was made, and the patient was treated with 2 g/day of ceftriaxone.
Improved method for bacteriolopgical diagnosis of
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. J Clin Microbiol.
suis infection has been associated with bacterial meningitis, septic shock, arthritis, pneumonia, endocarditis, endophthalmitis, and
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (2,3).
Patients with
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis had the highest case-fatality rate (50%), followed by necrotizing fasciitis (40.5%).
The organism has been implicated in bacteremia (3,4), meningitis (5), septic arthritis (6), enterocolitis (7),
spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (8), post-traumatic brain abscess (9), and pneumonia (4).