✦ LIBER ✦

Ascitic Fluid Analysis in the Differentiation of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis from Gastrointestinal Tract Perforation into Ascitic Fluid

✍ Scribed by Bruce A. Runyon; John C. Hoefs

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1984
Tongue: English
Weight: 350 KB
Volume: 4
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840040316

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A review of patients with bacterial peritonitis and ascites revealed six patients with gastrointestinal tract perforation into their ascitic fluid and 33 episodes of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in 32 patients. Signs and symptoms were not helpful in differentiating the two groups; however, ascitic fluid analysis was found to be useful. All patients with perforation peritonitis fulfilled at least two of the following criteria: ascitic fluid total protein > 1 gm per dl, glucose < 50 mg per dl and lactate dehydrogenase > 225 mU per ml. peritonitis were two of the criteria fulfilled.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

The pH of Ascitic Fluid in the Diagnosis

The pH of Ascitic Fluid in the Diagnosis of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Alcoholic Cirrhosis

✍ Norman Gitlin; John L. Stauffer; Ronald C. Silvestri 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 475 KB 👁 1 views

Fifty-six patients with alcoholic cirrhosis and ascites were studied. The ascitic fluid was analyzed for pH, POz, PCO2, glucose, protein, specific gravity, amylase, lactic dehydrogenase, white blood cell count, polymorphonuclear count, and cytology. It was also cultured aerobically and anaerobically

Is the acidity of ascitic fluid a reliab

Is the acidity of ascitic fluid a reliable index in making the presumptive diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis?

✍ Giovambattista Pinzello; Roberto Virdone; Francesca Lojacono; Maddalena Ciambra; 📂 Article 📅 1986 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 455 KB 👁 1 views