Rakhi Maiwall, Salvatore Piano, Virendra Singh, Paolo Caraceni, Carlo Alessandria, Javier Fernandez, Elza Cotrim Soares, Dong Joon Kim, Sung Eun Kim, Monica Marino, Julio Vorobioff, Rita de Cassia Ribeiro Barea, Manuela Merli, Laure Elkrief, Victor Vargas, Aleksander Krag, Shivaram Prasad Singh, Laurentius Adrianto Lesmana, Claudio Toledo, Sebastian Marciano, Xavier Verhelst, Florence Wong, Nicolas Intagliata, Liane Rabinowich, Luis Colombato, Sang Gyune Kim, Alexander Gerbes, Francois Durand, Juan Pablo Roblero, Kalyan Ram Bhamidimarri, Marina Maevskaya, Eduardo Fassio, Hyoung Su Kim, Jae Seok Hwang, Pere Gines, Tony Bruns, Adrian Gadano, Paolo Angeli, Shiv Kumar Sarin
BACKGROUND: The administration of an appropriate empirical antibiotic treatment is essential in cirrhosis and severe bacterial infections. We aimed to investigate the predictors of clinical response of empirical antibiotic treatment in a prospective cohort of patients with cirrhosis and bacterial and fungal infections included in the International Club of Ascites "Global Study." METHODS: Patients hospitalized with cirrhosis and bacterial/fungal infection were prospectively enrolled at 46 centers...
December 1, 2023: Hepatology: Official Journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases