Successful Management of Acute Kidney Injury with Peritoneal Dialysis in a Patient after Heart Transplantation with Burkholderia Septicemia

Abstract

Acute kidney injury is a common cause of morbidity and mortality after cardiac transplantation. Knowledge of various preoperative, intraoperative and post-operative risk factors allow prevention, early diagnosis and successful management of acute kidney injury. CRRT in the form of acute peritoneal dialysis is a modality of dialysis which is extremely cost effective and is non-inferior to other extra corporeal therapies. We present the successful management of acute kidney injury with peritoneal dialysis in a cardiac transplant recipient in the immediate post operative period who developed sepsis and non-oliguric AKI.