Abstract
With the advances that are being made in many areas of medicine, the surgeon must be familiar with infectious diseases of the peritoneal cavity, which have increased in scope and complexity. In addition to the surgical management of secondary peritonitis resulting from perforation of the gastrointestinal tract, the practicing surgeon may be called on to manage patients with cirrhosis with infected ascitic fluid as well as patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis with infected dialysis fluid. In addition, there is increasing recognition of a group of patients with persistent intraabdominal sepsis or tertiary peritonitis in whom infection is associated with multiple systems organ failure and general depression of the immune system. This article endeavors to present an overview of the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to these disease entities.
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