Bacterial infections following sclerosing therapy for esophageal varices
Mang, G.; Walter, E.; Bertschinger, P.; Lammer, F.; Blum, H.E.
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift 123(38): 1796-1801
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-7672 PMID: 8211032 Document Number: 418183
Two patients with infectious complications 3 and 5 days after elective sclerotherapy of esophageal varices are presented. Both patients had liver cirrhosis (primary biliary cirrhosis and alcoholic liver cirrhosis with hepatitis B virus infection respectively). In one patient a brain abscess developed which was treated successfully by antibiotics and surgery; in the other patient pneumococcal bacteremia and gonarthritis developed. Frequency, possible causes and antibiotic prophylaxis are discussed.