A Case Report of Malfunctioning Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter in a Patient With Diverticulitis With a Phlegmon

We are presenting a case of 59-year-old female with advanced chronic kidney disease where her peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter was complicated and malfunctioned by its entanglement within a phlegmon from diverticulitis. It needed removal of PD catheter and eventually sigmoid colectomy. We reviewed...

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Autores principales: Nwanji, Valerie, Burkholder, Gail, Kaur, Gurwant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8115192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33996315
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14455
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description We are presenting a case of 59-year-old female with advanced chronic kidney disease where her peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter was complicated and malfunctioned by its entanglement within a phlegmon from diverticulitis. It needed removal of PD catheter and eventually sigmoid colectomy. We reviewed the literature regarding the risk of peritonitis in patients with asymptomatic diverticulosis and in symptomatic patients with diverticulitis.
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spelling pubmed-81151922021-05-14 A Case Report of Malfunctioning Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter in a Patient With Diverticulitis With a Phlegmon Nwanji, Valerie Burkholder, Gail Kaur, Gurwant Cureus Internal Medicine We are presenting a case of 59-year-old female with advanced chronic kidney disease where her peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter was complicated and malfunctioned by its entanglement within a phlegmon from diverticulitis. It needed removal of PD catheter and eventually sigmoid colectomy. We reviewed the literature regarding the risk of peritonitis in patients with asymptomatic diverticulosis and in symptomatic patients with diverticulitis. Cureus 2021-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8115192/ /pubmed/33996315 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14455 Text en Copyright © 2021, Nwanji et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A Case Report of Malfunctioning Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter in a Patient With Diverticulitis With a Phlegmon
title A Case Report of Malfunctioning Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter in a Patient With Diverticulitis With a Phlegmon
title_full A Case Report of Malfunctioning Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter in a Patient With Diverticulitis With a Phlegmon
title_fullStr A Case Report of Malfunctioning Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter in a Patient With Diverticulitis With a Phlegmon
title_full_unstemmed A Case Report of Malfunctioning Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter in a Patient With Diverticulitis With a Phlegmon
title_short A Case Report of Malfunctioning Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter in a Patient With Diverticulitis With a Phlegmon
title_sort case report of malfunctioning peritoneal dialysis catheter in a patient with diverticulitis with a phlegmon
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8115192/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14455
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