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Query: UMLS:C0023890 (
cirrhosis
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We herein report a patient with decompensated
cirrhosis
secondary to autoimmune hepatitis, who presented with pneumatosis intestinalis (PI) and portal venous gas.
Mesenteric ischemia
has been recognized as a common and life-threatening cause of PI which portends a grave prognosis. The patient was found to have bacterascites and recovered after appropriate antibiotic therapy. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis/bacterascites with gas-forming organisms manifesting as PI has not been previously reported.
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PMID:Pneumatosis intestinalis and mesenteric venous gas - a manifestation of bacterascites in a patient with cirrhosis. 2120 25
