Acute Staphylococcal Enterocolitis Complicating Oral Neomycin Therapy in Cirrhosis
| Autor: | W. A. Tisdale, Gerald Klatskin, L. F. Fenster |
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| Rok vydání: | 1960 |
| Předmět: |
Liver Cirrhosis
medicine.medical_specialty Cirrhosis medicine.drug_class Antibiotics Gastroenterology Liver disease Oral administration Internal medicine Humans Medicine Enterocolitis business.industry Neomycin General Medicine Staphylococcal Infections Colitis medicine.disease Surgery Steatorrhea Intestinal Diseases Diarrhea medicine.symptom business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 263:1014-1016 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/nejm196011172632009 |
| Popis: | THE oral administration of certain poorly absorbed antibiotics is widely accepted as an important measure in the management of the neuropsychiatric complications of severe liver disease. Of these anti-bacterial agents, neomycin has proved the most satisfactory, effectively suppressing intestinal flora with a minimum of undesirable or harmful side effects.1 2 3 Although diarrhea,1 steatorrhea,4 occasional systemic absorption of the drug5 , 6 and mild monilial superinfection2 have occurred in a few cases, to our knowledge no serious complications due to neomycin-resistant organisms have been reported to follow the use of this drug in the treatment of impending or overt hepatic coma. Recently, however, we . . . |
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