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Clinical Presentation

Primary peritonitis

Secondary peritonitis

  • Secondary to trauma or perforation

Tertiary peritonitis

  • Ongoing intraabdominal sepsis after appropriate treatment of secondary peritonitis
  • Organisms include resistant Gram-positives (Enterococcus, coagulase-negative Staphylococci), resistant Gram-negatives (ESBLs), and Candida
  • Can also be aseptic without infection but with ongoing inflammation

Peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis

Management

References

  1. ^  Robert G. Sawyer, Jeffrey A. Claridge, Avery B. Nathens, Ori D. Rotstein, Therese M. Duane, Heather L. Evans, Charles H. Cook, Patrick J. O’Neill, John E. Mazuski, Reza Askari, Mark A. Wilson, Lena M. Napolitano, Nicholas Namias, Preston R. Miller, E. Patchen Dellinger, Christopher M. Watson, Raul Coimbra, Daniel L. Dent, Stephen F. Lowry, Christine S. Cocanour, Michaela A. West, Kaysie L. Banton, William G. Cheadle, Pamela A. Lipsett, Christopher A. Guidry, Kimberley Popovsky. Trial of Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Intraabdominal Infection. New England Journal of Medicine. 2015;372(21):1996-2005. doi:10.1056/nejmoa1411162.