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Fulminant onset of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

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This report describes a patient with previously unrecognized liver disease who developed ascites followed by spontaneous bacterial peritonitis within a period of 24 hr. The fulminant onset of peritonitis led us to perform an emergency laparotomy suspecting a ruptured abdominal abscess. This case is evidence that spontaneous peritonitis can develop almost concomitantly with clinically apparent ascites in patients with rapidly progressive hepatic failure.

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  1. Department of Surgery, CMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School, P.O. Box 101, 08854, Piscataway, New Jersey

    Robert E. Brolin MD

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Brolin, R.E. Fulminant onset of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. Digest Dis Sci 27, 364–366 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01296758

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