Objectives: To assess the clinical significance of present scoring systems for prognosis and
treatment in patients with secondary bacterial peritonitis and to define risk factors for patient …

In this review an update concerning the prognostic factors and scoring systems in peritonitis
is given. The course of the disease is influenced by the physiological reserve of the patient …

Objective The authors review current definition, classification, scoring, microbiology,
inflammatory response, and goals of management of secondary peritonitis. Summary …

Objectives: To evaluate antimicrobial therapy management of secondary peritonitis in a
University Hospital. Patients and methods: All patients admitted to the intensive care unit of …

Some patients are prone to persisting intraabdominal infection regardless of initial
eradication of the source of infection. Our aim was to characterize patients who had to …

Mortality of generalized postoperative peritonitis remains high at 22% to 55%. The aim of the
present study was to identify prognostic factors by means of univariate and multivariate …

Objective To assess the results of open management of the abdomen and planned re-
operations in severe bacterial peritonitis after perforation or anastomotic disruption of the …

Objective: To assess the accuracy of the APACHE I1 score, the Mannheim Peritonitis Index
(MPI), and the Peritonitis Index Altona (PIA) I1 in the prediction of outcome of patients with …

Early prognostic evaluation of abdominal sepsis is desirable to select high‐risk patients for
more aggressive therapeutic procedures and to provide objective classification of the …

Introduction: There is an 鷺 dispute on the benefit of planned relaparotomy for patients with
diffuse peritonitis. Setting: Surgery Department. university hospital Patients: 145 patients …