Peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis with an unexpected micro-organism: enterococcus hirae

Peritoneal dialysis peritonitis: common presentation by an uncommon organism.

Peritonitis remains a leading complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD). About 18% of the infection-related mortality in PD patients is a result of peritonitis. We present a case of peritonitis in a patient on automated PD in whom the infection was not related to a break in PD technique, but to an unusual cause: retrograde transmission of a gonococcal organism.

Dialysis Effluent from Patients with Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Peritonitis

5 Yu-Tzu Chang, Hsuan-Chen Wang, Ming-Cheng Wang, An-Bang Wu, Junne-Ming Sung, 6 a H. Sunny Sun, Ih-Jen Su, Wei-Chih Kan, Chih-Chiang Chien, Jyh-Chang Hwang, 7 Hsien-Yi Wang, Chin-Chung Tseng,* Chi-Jung Wu,* 8 9 Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital and Medical 10 College, Tainan, Taiwan; National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, 11 National H...

Treatment of peritoneal dialysis related peritonitis.

Early Onset Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Peritonitis

Peritonitis is a serious and common complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD), representing the commonest cause of technique failure and a not infrequent cause of patient death. Early onset peritonitis, variously defined in the literature as peritonitis occurring within the first 3-20 months of PD, is increasingly being recognised as a discrete and important clinical problem with appreciably hei...

Predictor factors of peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis.

INTRODUCTION Peritonitis remains a major complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD). OBJECTIVE Evaluate peritonitis incidence, etiology and outcome in cronic PD patients. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was carried out on 330 patients (mean age of 53 ± 19 years) who had been treated by PD in a dialysis center in Aracaju/SE, Brazil between January 1st, 2003 and December 31th, 2007. Data o...