Sweet hydrothorax: a common presentation of a rare condition

Sweet hydrothorax is a known, yet rare, complication of peritoneal dialysis. It can be life-threatening. This case is about a 70-year-old lady who presented with acute respiratory failure due to massive right-sided hydrothorax that developed insidiously over 3 months of starting peritoneal dialysis....

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Autores principales: Mohamad Alahmad, Mohamad Alhoda, Kasmani, Rahil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6647920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404134
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajm.AJM_131_18
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description Sweet hydrothorax is a known, yet rare, complication of peritoneal dialysis. It can be life-threatening. This case is about a 70-year-old lady who presented with acute respiratory failure due to massive right-sided hydrothorax that developed insidiously over 3 months of starting peritoneal dialysis. Thoracentesis and technetium scan confirmed the diagnosis. Treatment was successful with hemodialysis.
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spelling pubmed-66479202019-08-09 Sweet hydrothorax: a common presentation of a rare condition Mohamad Alahmad, Mohamad Alhoda Kasmani, Rahil Avicenna J Med Case Report Sweet hydrothorax is a known, yet rare, complication of peritoneal dialysis. It can be life-threatening. This case is about a 70-year-old lady who presented with acute respiratory failure due to massive right-sided hydrothorax that developed insidiously over 3 months of starting peritoneal dialysis. Thoracentesis and technetium scan confirmed the diagnosis. Treatment was successful with hemodialysis. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6647920/ /pubmed/31404134 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajm.AJM_131_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Avicenna Journal of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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