Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is an infection that is not caused by intra-abdominal source requiring surgery. Nowadays SBP is the main cause of death in patients with cirrhosis. Treatment is carried out with third generation cephalosporins and albumin infusions.
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June 2014
Intraperitoneal administration of chemotherapeutic drugs with hyperthermia (HIPEC) increases their local effect on malignant peritoneal diseases and reduces systemic cytotoxicity. The most commonly used are cisplatin, doxorubicin, and mitomycin C. A major disadvantage of intraperitoneal chemotherapy is limited penetration of the drug in the tumor lesion depth (1-3 mm).
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February 2006
Unlabelled: Obstetrician-gynecologists in a team with neonatologists contributed to saving of many children with extremely low birth weight /ELBW/, increasing many times SC frequency, considering it to be a sparing method for successful delivery, favorably influencing the outcome for the newborn. Many authors put emphasis on the better results however others point out reasons for a certain level of skepticism, assuming that survivability should not be the only criteria. Thus our objective was to find out the role of the abdominal delivery on the favorable outcome for ELBW newborn babies.
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May 2005
Unlabelled: The biological behaviour (conduct) of benign ovarial cysts is interesting due to their comparatively high frequency of appearance and clinical manifestation. (During the last five years their frequency is between 62%-65% of the gynaecological surgical interventions). With this current survey the authors try to set up a target for research study of the wall receptive status of benign ovarial cysts.
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