Symptoms of a peritoneal progression from ovarian cancer are nonspecific such as abdominal pain, abdominal distention and more. Many imaging studies and serum CA-125 help diagnosis. However, it is difficult to exclude the instances of the diffuse peritoneal diseases that mimic carcinomatosis. The elevated CA-125 level usually correlates with the peritoneal carcimatosis, but it is often found in...

Using a rabbit sterile peritonitis model, we compared the penetration of intravenously administered amikacin, gentamicin, and penicillin G into peritoneal exudate. Peritonitis was induced with sterile normal saline, and the peritoneal exudate contained 23,751 +/- 3,039 granulocytes 8 h later. Antibiotics were administered intravenously 3 h after initiating peritonitis, and serum and peritoneal ...

SINCE its introduction, peritoneal dialysis has been used more frequently in Canada than in the United States, Europe or Japan. In Toronto, during 1979, 413 patients were maintained on dialysis in 5 teaching hospitals; of these, 232 (56 per cent) were on peritoneal dialysis. This figure reflects the superiority of peritoneal dialysis as a home treatment Wither as intermittent peritoneal dialysi...

Peritoneal metastasis of gastric cancer (GC) results in extremely poor prognoses. The peritoneal cavity is covered by a monolayer mesothelial cells (PMCs). Interactions between GC and PMCs might play pivotal role metastasis. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) correlate with intercellular communication. Although communication be associated the metastatic process, EVs from remains unclear. We investiga...

Background: Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) has become the gold standard treatment for organ-confined prostate cancer. However, no proper surgical approach or appropriate postsurgical management of RALP has been established for a patient undergoing peritoneal dialysis. Here, we present a case of a peritoneal dialysis patient who underwent RALP and reinstated peritoneal dialysis...

In patients on long-term continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), peritoneal dysfunction is considered to be due to the loss of peritoneal mesothelial cells and to subsequent peritoneal fibrosis and neovascularization. Our aim in the present study was to clarify the role of various components of peritoneal dialysis fluid in the occurrence of peritoneal dysfunction in CAPD patients. We ...

OBJECTIVE To determine linezolid concentrations in peritoneal dialysis fluid after multiple oral doses of the drug in a 46-year-old man with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium peritonitis who was undergoing peritoneal dialysis. METHODS After administration of oral linezolid 600 mg twice/day was started, peritoneal dialysis fluid was collected at the end of several 4- and 8-hour dwell t...

INTRODUCTION Peritoneal effluent cancer antigen 125 (CA125) concentration is a marker of mesothelial cell mass in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). Accordingly, we aimed to observe the effects of CAPD duration, sex, and peritoneal membrane efficacy on CA125 levels in peritoneal effluent. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 30 patients who were on CAPD for 6 months, concentrat...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Peritoneal clearance of albumin-unlike the transport of small molecules-is defined by both vascular surface area and size-selective permeability. Few studies have supported a positive correlation between peritoneal albumin loss and mortality. The aim of this study was to investigate whether baseline peritoneal loss and clearance of albumin and other proteins is a risk ...

OBJECTIVES Peritoneal dialysis, the preferred long-term renal replacement modality in the pediatric population, can also be used during the post transplant period. Although it is well known that peritonitis or other complications may occur related to the peritoneal dialysis catheter, less is known about complications related to the peritoneal dialysis during the posttransplant period. Our objec...