Prevention of infectious complications after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in cirrhotic patients with a single dose of ceftriaxone. - Concepedia

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Prevention of infectious complications after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in cirrhotic patients with a single dose of ceftriaxone.

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1999

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V Gulberg, Peter Deibert, A. Ochs, Martin Rössle, A. Gerbes

Abstract

Prophylactic treatment with Ceftriaxone reduces the reported incidence of bacterial infections after TIPS in patients with cirrhosis of the liver. Prophylaxis with 1 g Ceftriaxone seems as efficacious as 2 g.