New acquisitions in treating infection due to necrotic pancreatitis: prevention or cure?

Early antibiotic treatment is still a therapeutic challenge in the clinical management of acute necrotic pancreatitis. The antibiotic of choice for the prevention of the infection of necrotic pancreatic tissue would appear to be imipenem and, more recently, meropenem has also been suggested. The lat...

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Main Authors: Raffaele Pezzilli, Bahjat Barakat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2008-06-01
Series:Emergency Care Journal
Online Access:http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/ecj/article/view/1344