Severe Liver Disease Complicated by Bacteremia
- 1 May 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 109 (5) , 555-562
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1962.03620170053008
Abstract
In 1950, Whipple and Harris1reported 4 cases of Laennec's cirrhosis in which there was bacteremia due to Escherichia coli. Spellberg2and Beeson3have commented on infections of the blood stream due to colon bacilli in patients with cirrhosis of the liver. In 1954, members of our group4noted cases of severe hepatic disease complicated by bacteremia due to E. coli. These were among the 4 such cases separately reported,5and also were described in our study of 137 patients with bacteremia due to Gram-negative bacilli encountered in a 15-year period extending through 1954.6Subsequently, other reports of this coincidence of diseases have been made.7-12 Although bacteremia due to Gram-positive microorganisms may complicate severe hepatic disease, our experience to date suggests that it may occur less commonly than Gram-negative bacteremia. Only 1 of 143 patients with bacteremia due to Gram-positive organisms who wereThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: