Bacterial peritonitis due to duodenal perforation by a fish bone in an elderly peritoneal dialysis patient.
The patient, a 77-year-old-man, began peritoneal dialysis (PD) in August 2005. In January 2009, he developed lower abdominal pain and cloudy PD effluent. A diagnosis of peritonitis was made and Escherichia coli was detected in cultures of the PD effluent. An abdominal computed tomography scan showed a fish bone in the duodenal wall. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed, and a 3-cm fish bone was removed. We thus recommend careful investigation with the possibility of enteric peritonitis from the intestinal tract when E. coli is detected in effluent cultures during PD.
The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan. tnishino@nagasaki-u.ac.jp
Tomoya
T
Nishino
Takeaki
T
Shinzato
Tadashi
T
Uramatsu
Yoko
Y
Obata
Hideyuki
H
Arai
Takeshi
T
Hayashida
Shigeru
S
Kohno
D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001842:Bone and Bones; D015314:Dialysis Solutions; D004386:Duodenum / Q000293:injuries*; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005399:Fishes; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology
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