ASCITIC PERITONITIS DUE TO CANDIDA-ALBICA NS

We report a case of spontaneous peritonitis due to Candida albicans, i n a diabetic patient with alcoholic liver cirrhosis, ascitis, gastroin testinal bleeding from esophageal varices, sepsis, renal failure and e ncephalopaty. These factors, added to prolonged antibioterapy and inst rumental manipulations, could have resulted in the colonization by Can dida, usually described in secondary peritonitis, but perhaps under-di agnosed in cirrhotic patients with spontaneous peritonitis and severe multiorganic failure.