Table 6. Effect of Prophylactic Antibiotics on the Incidence of Endoscopy-associated Peritonitis in Patients Undergoing Gynecologic Procedures.
Antibiotic use | Peritonitis |
Gynecologic procedures (n = 13) | 5 (38.5%) |
No prophylactic antibiotics (n = 9) | 5 (55.6%) |
Prophylactic antibiotics (n = 4) | 0 (0%)a |
No peritonitis occurred if antibiotics were used prior to these gynecologic exams, p = 0.10.