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Changing Epidemiology and Predictors of Mortality in Patients with Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis at a Liver Transplant Unit by N. Singh; M. M. Wagener; T. Gayowski is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Changing Epidemiology and Predictors of Mortality in Patients with Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis at a Liver Transplant Unit about?
## Objectives: To determine whether antimicrobial resistance in pathogens and outcome in patients with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (sbp) has evolved over time. ## Methods: Sixty-one consecutive episodes of sbp were studied in patients with end-stage liver disease undergoing evaluation for liver transplantation between 1991 and 2001. patients were dichotomized into a cohort between 1991 and 1995 (the earlier cohort) and 1996-2001 (the later cohort). ## Results: Overall, 19% of all bacteria were multiply-antibiotic resistant. the frequency of multiple-antibiotic resistance in bacteria increased from 8.3% to 38.5% in the earlier as compared to the later cohort (p = 0.07). overall, mortality at 30 days in the study patients was 26% and had remained unchanged between the two cohorts. the mortality rate was significantly higher in patients with multiply-antibiotic-resistant bacteria than in those with other bacteria (p = 0.045). however, the child-pugh score (p = 0.003), and renal failure (p = 0.04) were the only independently significant predictors of mortality in patients with sbp. ## Conclusions: Mortality in patients with end-stage liver disease who developed sbp has remained u
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- Author
- N. Singh; M. M. Wagener; T. Gayowski
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Elsevier ; Elsevier Limited; Elsevier BV; Test accounts (ISSN 1198-743X)
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)