peritonitis/diarrhea

Using gut sections from pigs infected with porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (strain CV 777) and ascitic fluid from cats which had succumbed to feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a weak cross reaction was found by immunofluorescence. Its specificity was confirmed when detergent-treated purified CV

A 53-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital due to abdominal pain, diarrhea, and shunt occlusion caused by dehydration. She had undergone hemodialysis due to diabetic nephropathy over a ten-year period. She was hospitalized again with fever and a persistent high serum CRP level. We started

During the last years the cases of severe group A streptococcus infection have increased. The clinical manifestation of this streptococcal toxic shock syndrome is similar to the better known toxic shock syndrome (TSS) provocated by staphylococcus. Shock, bacteremia and acute respiratory distress

Serositis is commonly seen in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Approximately 16% of patients with SLE have pleural or pericardial involvement. However, peritoneal involvement is extremely rare, and clinically seen in a small group of patients. This is the case report of a 47-year old female with

Nosocomial pneumonia and acute peritonitis may be caused by a wide array of pathogens, and combination therapy is often recommended. We have previously shown that imipenem-cilastatin monotherapy was as efficacious as the combination of imipenem-cilastatin plus netilmicin in these two settings. The

OBJECTIVE To determine outcome of dogs and cats with generalized peritonitis treated by means of closed-suction drainage. METHODS Retrospective study. METHODS 30 dogs and 10 cats with generalized peritonitis. METHODS Medical records were reviewed, and information on signalment, clinicopathologic

The patient, a 35-year-old woman, had been diagnosed as SLE since she developed butterfly rash, arthritis and hair loss with positive antinuclear antibody, anti-DNA antibody, and LE cells in 1989, and treated with daily 20 mg prednisolone (PSL). She had been suffering from nausea, vomiting and

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is one of the main infectious complications of cirrhosis and occurs in 8-30% of hospitalized patients with ascites. SBP is characterized by infection of the ascitic fluid (AF) in the absence of any primary focus of intra-abdominal infection. The main route by

Patients with peritonitis present with abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, and turbid peritoneal dialysis (PD) fluid. Shewanella algae peritonitis has not yet been reported in PD patients in the literature. We present the first 2 cases of Shewanella algae peritonitis in PD patients. Mupirocin cream is

A 37-year-old woman presented with an acute abdomen following the onset of watery diarrhea. Spontaneous peritonitis was detected, along with evidence of a focal sigmoid colon perforation. Subsequent postoperative colonoscopic studies revealed collagenous colitis with a focal, deep, nongranulomatous

Various complications have been reported in scrub typhus cases including acute respiratory distress syndrome, encephalitis, pneumonia, pericarditis, acute renal failure, and acute hepatic failure. Few studies have reported on the gastrointestinal manifestations of scrub typhus. Typical

Vibrio cholerae is a Gram-negative bacilli with curved, comma shape that belongs to the family Vibrionaceae. The antigenic structure consists of a flagellar H antigen and a somatic O antigen (used to classify V cholerae in various serogroups). Serogroups 01 and 0139 have caused epidemics of cholera.

The Clostridium difficile-associated infection (CDI) is one of the main causes of nosocomial diarrhea. The complicacy of laboratory diagnostic results in progression of disease bringing on extensive inflammatory alterations in the wall of large intestine and characterizing by superficial necrosis of