臨床消化器病学および肝臓学ジャーナル オープンアクセス

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Treatment of Patients with Cirrhosis

Marco Fiore, Sebastiano Leone and Maria Caterina Pace

Several influential authors in their recent review on the treatment of patients with cirrhosis [1-3] did not mention spontaneous fungal peritonitis (SFP) as a severe complication of liver cirrhosis. Spontaneous peritonitis (SP) is an infection of ascitic fluid of cirrhotics without an alternative intraabdominal source of infection. If an ascitic fluid culture is performed, the growth of bacteria makes diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP), instead the growth of fungi makes diagnosis of SFP4.