Infectious peritonitis after endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage in a patient with ascites

Summary of Event: Bacterial, mycotic peritonitis and Candida fungemia developed in a patient with moderate ascites who had undergone endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage (EUS-BD). Antibiotics and antifungal agent were administered and ascites drainage was performed. Although the infection i...

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Main Authors: Nozomi Okuno, Kazuo Hara, Nobumasa Mizuno, Takamichi Kuwahara, Hiromichi Iwaya, Masahiro Tajika, Tsutomu Tanaka, Makoto Ishihara, Yutaka Hirayama, Sachiyo Onishi, Kazuhiro Toriyama, Ayako Ito, Naosuke Kuraoka, Shimpei Matsumoto, Masahiro Obata, Muneji Yasuda, Yusuke Kurita, Hiroki Tanaka, Yasumasa Niwa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention 2018-04-01
Series:Gastrointestinal Intervention
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18528/gii180006