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Unusual presentation of peritonitis with persistent clear aspirate: a case report
INTRODUCTION: Peritonitis is the most frequent complication of peritoneal dialysis. Diagnosis of peritonitis includes symptoms and signs of peritonitis with a cloudy aspirate of more than 100 WBC/ml, as well as positive cultures. Although sterile peritonitis has been reported in the literature, to t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3003677/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21110897 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-383 |
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author | Asicioglu, Ebru Kahveci, Arzu Bakir, Elif Ari Bulur, Atilla Arikan, Hakki Koc, Mehmet Tuglular, Serhan Ozener, Cetin |
author_facet | Asicioglu, Ebru Kahveci, Arzu Bakir, Elif Ari Bulur, Atilla Arikan, Hakki Koc, Mehmet Tuglular, Serhan Ozener, Cetin |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Peritonitis is the most frequent complication of peritoneal dialysis. Diagnosis of peritonitis includes symptoms and signs of peritonitis with a cloudy aspirate of more than 100 WBC/ml, as well as positive cultures. Although sterile peritonitis has been reported in the literature, to the best of our knowledge this is the first report of an unusual presentation of peritonitis without any white blood cells in the peritoneal aspirate despite multiple positive peritoneal cultures. CASE PRESENTATION: An 82-year-old Caucasian man who had been on continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis for 12 years was admitted to our hospital with general malaise, loss of appetite, weight loss and somnolence. He did not describe abdominal pain or fever. Even though his peritoneal fluid was consistently negative for leukocytes and clear, he had peritonitis with different organisms consecutively. CONCLUSIONS: Our case report shows that any patient on peritoneal dialysis presenting with evidence of infection (fever, peripheral leukocytosis) without an obvious cause should have aspirate cultures done even if the aspirate is clear and abdominal pain is absent. Our case report may change the initial work-up and management of these patients. We believe this report is of interest to general medicine and emergency room physicians as well as nephrologists. |
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spelling | pubmed-30036772010-12-18 Unusual presentation of peritonitis with persistent clear aspirate: a case report Asicioglu, Ebru Kahveci, Arzu Bakir, Elif Ari Bulur, Atilla Arikan, Hakki Koc, Mehmet Tuglular, Serhan Ozener, Cetin J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Peritonitis is the most frequent complication of peritoneal dialysis. Diagnosis of peritonitis includes symptoms and signs of peritonitis with a cloudy aspirate of more than 100 WBC/ml, as well as positive cultures. Although sterile peritonitis has been reported in the literature, to the best of our knowledge this is the first report of an unusual presentation of peritonitis without any white blood cells in the peritoneal aspirate despite multiple positive peritoneal cultures. CASE PRESENTATION: An 82-year-old Caucasian man who had been on continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis for 12 years was admitted to our hospital with general malaise, loss of appetite, weight loss and somnolence. He did not describe abdominal pain or fever. Even though his peritoneal fluid was consistently negative for leukocytes and clear, he had peritonitis with different organisms consecutively. CONCLUSIONS: Our case report shows that any patient on peritoneal dialysis presenting with evidence of infection (fever, peripheral leukocytosis) without an obvious cause should have aspirate cultures done even if the aspirate is clear and abdominal pain is absent. Our case report may change the initial work-up and management of these patients. We believe this report is of interest to general medicine and emergency room physicians as well as nephrologists. BioMed Central 2010-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3003677/ /pubmed/21110897 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-383 Text en Copyright ©2010 Asicioglu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<url>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0</url>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Asicioglu, Ebru Kahveci, Arzu Bakir, Elif Ari Bulur, Atilla Arikan, Hakki Koc, Mehmet Tuglular, Serhan Ozener, Cetin Unusual presentation of peritonitis with persistent clear aspirate: a case report |
title | Unusual presentation of peritonitis with persistent clear aspirate: a case report |
title_full | Unusual presentation of peritonitis with persistent clear aspirate: a case report |
title_fullStr | Unusual presentation of peritonitis with persistent clear aspirate: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Unusual presentation of peritonitis with persistent clear aspirate: a case report |
title_short | Unusual presentation of peritonitis with persistent clear aspirate: a case report |
title_sort | unusual presentation of peritonitis with persistent clear aspirate: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3003677/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21110897 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-383 |
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