{"title":"Peritoneal dialysis peritonitis: common presentation by an uncommon organism.","authors":"Prashant Kolar, Prasad Bichu, Ramesh Khanna","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Peritonitis remains a leading complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD). About 18% of the infection-related mortality in PD patients is a result of peritonitis. We present a case of peritonitis in a patient on automated PD in whom the infection was not related to a break in PD technique, but to an unusual cause: retrograde transmission of a gonococcal organism.</p>","PeriodicalId":7361,"journal":{"name":"Advances in peritoneal dialysis. Conference on Peritoneal Dialysis","volume":"30 ","pages":"60-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in peritoneal dialysis. Conference on Peritoneal Dialysis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Peritonitis remains a leading complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD). About 18% of the infection-related mortality in PD patients is a result of peritonitis. We present a case of peritonitis in a patient on automated PD in whom the infection was not related to a break in PD technique, but to an unusual cause: retrograde transmission of a gonococcal organism.