Ascites due to right atrial myxoma in a haemodialysis patient

BACKGROUND: Persistent fluid overload in patients on renal replacement therapy despite good dialysis adequacy or obvious cardiac dysfunction should prompt a search for rarer causes. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here a rare cause of persistent peripheral oedema and ascites in a well-dialysed patient....

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Autores principales: Banerjee, Anindya, Davenport, Andrew
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1450266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16519807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-7-4
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Davenport, Andrew
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description BACKGROUND: Persistent fluid overload in patients on renal replacement therapy despite good dialysis adequacy or obvious cardiac dysfunction should prompt a search for rarer causes. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here a rare cause of persistent peripheral oedema and ascites in a well-dialysed patient. CT scanning revealed a right atrial myxoma that was later confirmed on an echocardiogram. CONCLUSION: Fluid overload states are common in patients on dialysis. Common causes are inadequacy of dialysis and non-compliance. Where aetiology is not easily apparent further investigations into rarer causes should be sought.
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spelling pubmed-14502662006-04-29 Ascites due to right atrial myxoma in a haemodialysis patient Banerjee, Anindya Davenport, Andrew BMC Nephrol Case Report BACKGROUND: Persistent fluid overload in patients on renal replacement therapy despite good dialysis adequacy or obvious cardiac dysfunction should prompt a search for rarer causes. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here a rare cause of persistent peripheral oedema and ascites in a well-dialysed patient. CT scanning revealed a right atrial myxoma that was later confirmed on an echocardiogram. CONCLUSION: Fluid overload states are common in patients on dialysis. Common causes are inadequacy of dialysis and non-compliance. Where aetiology is not easily apparent further investigations into rarer causes should be sought. BioMed Central 2006-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC1450266/ /pubmed/16519807 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-7-4 Text en Copyright © 2006 Banerjee and Davenport; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ascites due to right atrial myxoma in a haemodialysis patient
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title_full Ascites due to right atrial myxoma in a haemodialysis patient
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title_short Ascites due to right atrial myxoma in a haemodialysis patient
title_sort ascites due to right atrial myxoma in a haemodialysis patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1450266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16519807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-7-4
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