Bacterial nosocomial infections in chronic liver diseases

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to survey nosocomial infection in 90 patients with different stages of chronic liver disease in addition to 20 patients without liver diseases as a control group. 37.8% of the patients developed nosocomial infections during the course of their hospitalization compared with 20% of control subjects. A spontaneous bacterial peritonitis accounted for 44.1%, infection of respiratory tract accounted for 35.3%, followed by urinary tract infections [14.7%] and bacteremia [11.8%], intravenous cannula site infection [11.8%] and cellulitis [2.9%]. In conclusion, patients with liver cirrhosis are at an increased risk of developing nosocomial bacterial infections which add to poor prognosis and are associated with significantly high morbidity and mortality