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Case Reports
. 2008 Feb;23(2):335-8.
doi: 10.1007/s00467-007-0615-y. Epub 2007 Oct 9.

Dialysate leakage into pericardium in an infant on long-term peritoneal dialysis

Dagmara Borzych  1 , Sebastain Ley, Franz Schaefer, Heiko Billing, Julia Ley-Zaporozhan, Jens Schenk, Claus Peter Schmitt
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Case Reports

Dialysate leakage into pericardium in an infant on long-term peritoneal dialysis

Dagmara Borzych et al. Pediatr Nephrol. 2008 Feb.

Abstract

We report on a 2-year-old boy on automated peritoneal dialysis (PD) with a history of multiple hernias and dialysate leaks who developed pericardial effusion. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated a peritoneo-pericardial fistula. Dialysis had to be discontinued, since head-down tilt reproducibly induced significant hypotension. In PD patients with pericardial effusion a peritoneo-pericardial leak should be considered.

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