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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

After confirmation of SBP, patients need hospital admission for intravenous antibiotics (most often cefotaxime given as 1gm/12hours for 5 days or ceftriaxone). They will often also receive intravenous albumin. A repeat paracentesis in 48 hours is sometimes performed to ensure control of infection. Once patients have recovered from SBP, they require regular prophylactic antibiotics (e.g. Septra DS, Cipro, norfloxicin) as long as they still have ascites.

Medical Therapy

Antibiotics

Antibiotic therapy is administered empirically. Therapy can be initiated if

  • temperature is more than 100 degree Fahrenheit.
  • alteration of mental status
  • ascitic fluid neutrophil count >250 cells/mm3
  • abdominal tenderness

Broad spectrum antibiotics are used to cover the intestinal bacteria which are gram negative, aerobic bacteria.

  • Cefotaxime is the antibiotic of choice given intravenously. Dosage has to be adjusted in renal failure patients.
  • In patients allergic to penicillin levofloxacin can be used.

Intravenous albumin

A randomized controlled trial found that intravenous albumin on the day of admission and on hospital day 3 can reduce renal impairment.[1]

References

  1. Sort P, Navasa M, Arroyo V; et al. (1999). "Effect of intravenous albumin on renal impairment and mortality in patients with cirrhosis and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis". N. Engl. J. Med. 341 (6): 403–9. PMID 10432325.


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