SERIOUS HEMORRHAGE COMPLICATING DIAGNOSTIC ABDOMINAL PARACENTESIS

Citation
A. Thomson et al., SERIOUS HEMORRHAGE COMPLICATING DIAGNOSTIC ABDOMINAL PARACENTESIS, Journal of clinical gastroenterology, 26(4), 1998, pp. 306-308
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
ISSN journal
01920790
Volume
26
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
306 - 308
Database
ISI
SICI code
0192-0790(1998)26:4<306:SHCDAP>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
We describe two patients awaiting orthoptic liver transplantation in w hom diagnostic paracentesis for the diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis led to major hemorrhage. Accordingly, we advise caution i n patients such as ours, particularly if the prothrombin time or parti al thromboplastin time is more than twice the control value.