BACTERIAL-INFECTIONS AFTER SCLEROTHERAPY OF ESOPHAGEAL-VARICES

Authors
MANG G WALTER E BERTSCHINGER P LAMMER F BLUM HE
Citation
G. Mang et al., BACTERIAL-INFECTIONS AFTER SCLEROTHERAPY OF ESOPHAGEAL-VARICES, Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, 123(38), 1993, pp. 1796-1801
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift → ACNP
ISSN journal
00367672
Volume
123
Issue
38
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1796 - 1801
Database
ISI
SICI code
0036-7672(1993)123:38<1796:BASOE>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Two patients with infectious complications 3 and 5 days after elective sclerotherapy of esophageal varices are presented. Both patients had liver cirrhosis (primary biliary cirrhosis and alcoholic liver cirrhos is with hepatitis B virus infection respectively). In one patient a br ain abscess developed which was treated successfully by antibiotics an d surgery; in the other patient pneumococcal bacteriemia and gonarthri tis developed. Frequency, possible causes and antibiotic prophylaxis a re discussed.