Background: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a commonly encountered complication of end stage liver disease that carries a high morbidity and mortality. Risk factors for SBP are defined by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) as a prior history of SBP, active gastrointestinal bleeding, and low ascites total protein (< 1.5 […]

Case Presentation: A 58‐year‐old African American man presented to our hospital with confusion, diffuse morbiliform rash, facial edema, fever to 41.1°C, leukocytosis with eosinophilia, acute kidney injury, transaminitis, and elevated creatinine kinase. Extensive evaluation for possible infection, including urine, blood, and CSF cultures, was negative. Six weeks prior to admission the patient had been started […]