%0 Journal Article
%T Pneumatosis intestinalis and mesenteric venous gas - A manifestation of bacterascites in a patient with cirrhosis
%A Yellapu R
%A Rajekar H
%A Martin J
%A Schiano T
%J Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
%D 2011
%I Medknow Publications
%X 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.
%K Bacterascites
%K mesenteric venous gas
%K pneumatosis intestinalis
%U http://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=2011;volume=57;issue=1;spage=42;epage=43;aulast=Yellapu