title: Chronic recurrent spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
abstract: The mortality rate in spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is reportedly high. Patients rarely survive the initial infection. Most patients die either because of infection or end-stage liver disease. A patient with alcoholic cirrhosis and portal hypertension with five distinct episodes of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis over a 2 1/2-year period is described.
mesh_terms: D001201:Ascites / Q000150:complications; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000401:mortality*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000150:complications; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000401:mortality*; D012008:Recurrence