We investigated whether spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in cirrhosis is a recurrent process and attempted to identify possible predictors of recurrence in 75 consecutive cirrhotics who had recovered from a first episode of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis between January, 1981 and December, 1984
Predictive factors of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: univariate and multivariate analysis
β Scribed by Razvan Iacob; Speranta Iacob; Mircea Diculescu
- Book ID
- 118565091
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 317 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8278
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