✦ LIBER ✦
Lower cutoff values for dipsticks may improve their accuracy in rapid diagnosis of spontanous bacterial peritonitis
✍ Scribed by Antonio de Barros Lopes; Alexandre Araujo; Mario Reis Alvares-da Silva
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 44 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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✦ Synopsis
Ascitic fluid culture is not necessary in asymptomatic cirrhotic outpatients undergoing repeated therapeutic paracentesis [Astract]. HEPATOLOGY 1996; 24(Suppl):445A. 5. Jeffries MA, Stern MA, Gunaratnam NT, Fontana RS. Unsuspected infection is infrequent in asymptomatic outpatients with refractory ascites undergoing therapeutic paracentesis. Am J Gastroenterol 1999;94:2972-2976.
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