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IBCC Episode 127 - Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP)

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How to Treat Spontaneous Bacteria and Pyema

Many patients with a lot of fluid in the abdomen, AKA SIDEs have hepatic hydrothorax. There's holes between those two spaces and they just reaccumulate fluid into the pleural space. Can they get a primary bacterial and pyema because of this? Yeah, so they absolutely can. And it's basically like the thoracic equivalent of spontaneous bacterial perinitis.

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