Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology Open Access
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Abstract
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.
