Ayman Aly Seddik
Ain Shams University, Egypt
Title: Incidence of peritonitis, causative organism, catheter and patient outcome, single center experience
Biography
Biography: Ayman Aly Seddik
Abstract
Introduction: Peritonitis in the peritoneal dialysis (PD) patient is defined by the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) as the presence of two of the following three criteria: (1) signs and symptoms such as fever, abdominal pain/tenderness; (2) >100 white blood cells/mL dialysate fluid, of which >50% are neutrophils; and (3) identification of the organism in the PD fluid (1). Peritonitis still represents the main acute complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD) and is a leading cause of hospitalization catheter loss, and technique failure (2).
Patients and Methods: Quantitative approach, retrospective study. We analyzed a database of patients from the Nephrology Service at Dubai hospital, Dubai health authority from January 1999 till December 2012 The analysis included patients in PD for more than 3 months and with complete information. We collected data regarding the catheter and patient outcome following recorded peritonitis episodes. The rate of peritonitis was expressed as risk of a peritonitis episode per year (ep./year) and calculated in accordance with the ISPD recommendations.