Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management

• Published in: Acta gastro-enterologica belgica Vol. 69; no. 3; p. 276
• Main Authors: Ozmen, Sehmus, Dursun, Mehmet, Yilmaz, Serif
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Belgium 01.07.2006
• Subjects: Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; Diagnosis, Differential; Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections - complications; Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections - diagnosis; Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections - drug therapy; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - complications; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - diagnosis; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - drug therapy; Humans; Peritonitis - diagnosis; Peritonitis - drug therapy; Peritonitis - microbiology; Prevalence; Risk Factors

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a bacterial infection of ascitic fluid which arises in the absence of any other intraabdominal infection source. SBP may develop in all cirrhotic patients with ascites. Gram-negative aerobic bacteria and non-enterococcal Streptococcus spp. are the most comm...