Oxalosis Associated With High-Dose Vitamin C Ingestion in a Peritoneal Dialysis Patient

Safety of high-level vitamin C ingestion.

Reports suggesting that gram doses of ascorbic acid are beneficial for the prevention and treatment of several disorders have led to widespread ingestion of vitamin C supplements. Possible adverse health effects of this practice have, therefore, received considerable scrutiny. Of major concern has been the influence of ingesting gram amounts of ascorbic acid on renal calcium oxalate stones, sys...

Proton Pump Inhibitor-Associated C. difficile Infection in a Peritoneal Dialysis Patient.

case report of a patient undergoing peritoneal dialysis with encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis superimposed with calciphylaxis

conclusions we suggest avoiding the use of tamoxifen for eps in patients with superimposed calciphylaxis. introduction encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (eps) is a rare but devastating complication of peritoneal dialysis (pd). tamoxifen has been generally well-tolerated, even without randomized controlled trials. case presentation herein, we report a case of a patient undergoing 12 years of pd...

High Peritoneal Transport Status Was Not Associated with Mortality in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients with Diabetes

BACKGROUND Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients with diabetes are at increased risk of mortality and high peritoneal transporters appear to contribute to poor survival. However, little is known about the combined impacts of high peritoneal transporters and diabetes on mortality. METHODS This was a prospective observational cohort study. 776 incident CAPD patients were enr...

Pleural Effusion in a Peritoneal Dialysis Patient

A 34-year-old female presented with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) treated by peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) complained of a dry cough. Chest X-ray and chest computed tomography (CT) scan revealed massive right hydrothorax. Because the glucose concentration of pleural fluid was markedly high compared with that of serum, we performed isotope and contrast peritoneography. We used CT for localizing it...