| [spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: occurrence in chronic liver disease patients in recife]. | a prospective research was made on spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (sbp) in chronic liver disease patients presenting with ascites. forty clinical cases, of 37 patients, were analysed. all subjects were submitted to clinical and laboratory evaluation and diagnostic paracentesis, and the material was obtained for biochemical dosages, ph determination, cytology and bacterial cultures. thirty cases of sterile ascites and 10 of sbp (25%) were detected. in 5 (50%) with sbp, the clinical findings we ... | 1991 | 1843242 |