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Clear peritoneal effluent in a child on CCPD with a phlegmonous appendicitis.

Horuz F, Sleeboom C, Bouts AH, Davin JC, Groothoff JW

Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Emma Children's Hospital AMC, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 22700, 1100 Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Peritonitis as a result of a perorated appendicitis is a rare but life-threatening situation in a patient on peritoneal dialysis (PD). As far as we are aware, the combination of clear dialysate effluent and phlegmonous appendicitis in a patient on PD has not previously been described. We report a 16-year-old girl with acute onset of abdominal pain and vomiting who turned out to have phlegmonous appendicitis, despite having a clear dialysate effluent with normal cell count, and who subsequently developed E coli peritonitis after surgery.

Published 16 September 2005 in Pediatr Nephrol, 20(10): 1504-5.
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