Prevalence and impact of infections in acute on chronic liver failure in Rishikesh, India: a prospective cohort study
Beeram Krishna Prasanna Kumar, Anand Sharma, Pratima Gupta, Itish Patnaik, Rohit Gupta · 2023
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Beeram Kumar and co-authors follow, in 2023, liver failure patients in Rishikesh, India, to measure how infections change their fate. When a chronically scarred liver suddenly decompensates, infection is common and deadly, yet prospective data on which germs and which drug resistance are involved were scarce. One hundred twenty-three patients were tracked to discharge.
Infection was present in sixty-two percent on arrival, most often peritonitis, though blood cultures yielded most confirmed germs. Over half the isolates resisted multiple drugs. Fifty-three percent of patients died in hospital, with kidney function and clotting measures among the strongest predictors. The study maps a heavy, resistant infection burden.
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| CREATOR | Beeram Krishna Prasanna Kumar, Anand Sharma, Pratima Gupta, Itish Patnaik, Rohit Gupta |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |