## AND VICENTE ARROYO^ Diuretic treatment in cirrhotic patients with ascites increases ascitic fluid concentration of total protein and complement components, and opsonic activity. These changes are not observed in patients treated with paracentesis. Based on these data it has been suggested that
Five days of ceftriaxone to treat spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in cirrhotic patients
✍ Scribed by Alex Vianey Callado França; Helena Maria Giordano; Tiago Sevá-Pereira; Elza Cotrim Soares
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 47 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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