Peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis: challenges and solutions

Melioidosis and peritoneal dialysis related peritonitis.

We report a case of melioidosis presenting as peritonitis in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). A 47-year-old man, a lorry driver, with end-stage renal disease due to diabetes mellitus on CAPD presented in PD-related peritonitis. He was started on intraperitoneal cloxacillin and ceftazidime, and changed to intraperitoneal vancomycin and meropenam after day 5 due to n...

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...

Inflammation and Metabolism in Peritoneal Dialysis – Factors Associated with Peritoneal Function, Peritonitis and Dialysis Solutions

..................................................................................................................... 10 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 12 Review of the literature .............................................................................................. 13 1. Principles of peritone...