The Indonesian Journal of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Digestive Endoscopy
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, April 2002

Risk Factors for Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis and Ascites

Fachrul Razy (Unknown)
Nanang Sukmana (Unknown)
Dharmika Djojoningrat (Unknown)
Sjaifoellah Noer (Unknown)

Article Info

Publish Date
04 Jan 2002

Abstract

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is one of serious complication of liver cirrhosis. Most of the patient with SBP have severe reduced liver function that clasified as Child Plugh class C. There are other risk factors for SBP such as poor nutritional status, GI bleeding, intravascular catheter insertion, ascites fluid protein concentration of less than 1 g/L, large volume paracentesis, urinary tract infection and respiratory tract infection. The management of SBP is mainly the administration of proper antibiotics. The antibiotic of choice for the emperial treatment is cefotaxim.    Keywords: sbp,liver cirrhosis, risk factor, ascites

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The Indonesian Journal of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Digestive Endoscopy
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Abbrev

jghe

Publisher

The Indonesian Society for Digestive Endoscopy

Subject

Medicine & Pharmacology

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The Indonesian Journal of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Digestive Endoscopy is an academic journal which has been published since 2000 and owned by 3 Societies: The Indonesian Society of Gastroenterology; Indonesian Association for the Study of the Liver; The Indonesian Society for Digestive ...