Enterococcus gallinarum Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in an HCV Cirrhotic

We present the case of a 60-year-old Caucasian male with history of hepatitis C viral cirrhosis with portosystemic encephalopathy and ascites with evidence of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) with absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 944 cells/µL blood. Despite adequate treatment, the abdominal...

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Autores principales: Abidali, Hussein, Sheikh, Maheen, Abidali, Moustapha, Abidali, Ali, Farraji, Hamoudi S., Berry, Andrew C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/898235
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author Abidali, Hussein
Sheikh, Maheen
Abidali, Moustapha
Abidali, Ali
Farraji, Hamoudi S.
Berry, Andrew C.
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description We present the case of a 60-year-old Caucasian male with history of hepatitis C viral cirrhosis with portosystemic encephalopathy and ascites with evidence of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) with absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 944 cells/µL blood. Despite adequate treatment, the abdominal pain and elevated creatinine continued to persist. Initial ascites fluid cultures returned back positive for growth of Enterococcus gallinarum. Empiric antibiotics were then substituted with ampicillin/sulbactam. Our case of Enterococcus gallinarum causing SBP is only the seventh case reported in the literature to date.
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spelling pubmed-44394972015-06-10 Enterococcus gallinarum Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in an HCV Cirrhotic Abidali, Hussein Sheikh, Maheen Abidali, Moustapha Abidali, Ali Farraji, Hamoudi S. Berry, Andrew C. Case Reports Hepatol Case Report We present the case of a 60-year-old Caucasian male with history of hepatitis C viral cirrhosis with portosystemic encephalopathy and ascites with evidence of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) with absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 944 cells/µL blood. Despite adequate treatment, the abdominal pain and elevated creatinine continued to persist. Initial ascites fluid cultures returned back positive for growth of Enterococcus gallinarum. Empiric antibiotics were then substituted with ampicillin/sulbactam. Our case of Enterococcus gallinarum causing SBP is only the seventh case reported in the literature to date. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4439497/ /pubmed/26064715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/898235 Text en Copyright © 2015 Hussein Abidali et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abidali, Hussein
Sheikh, Maheen
Abidali, Moustapha
Abidali, Ali
Farraji, Hamoudi S.
Berry, Andrew C.
Enterococcus gallinarum Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in an HCV Cirrhotic
title Enterococcus gallinarum Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in an HCV Cirrhotic
title_full Enterococcus gallinarum Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in an HCV Cirrhotic
title_fullStr Enterococcus gallinarum Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in an HCV Cirrhotic
title_full_unstemmed Enterococcus gallinarum Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in an HCV Cirrhotic
title_short Enterococcus gallinarum Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in an HCV Cirrhotic
title_sort enterococcus gallinarum spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in an hcv cirrhotic
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/898235
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