title: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis during bowel preparation: an example of clinical translocation.
abstract: During oral colonic lavage in preparation for colonoscopy, a patient had peritonitis in the absence of visceral perforation. Spontaneous peritonitis after mechanical bowel preparation has not been reported previously, and must be extremely rare. I speculate that it was due to translocation of bacteria from the gut to the peritoneal cavity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson 39216.
authors.forename: G V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Poole
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003113:Colonoscopy; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000209:etiology*; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation / Q000009:adverse effects*