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. 2022 Nov 10.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.21289. Online ahead of print.

Peritoneal Fluid Analysis in Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis

Jeffrey Perl  1 , Ziv Harel  1 , Sharon J Nessim  2
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Peritoneal Fluid Analysis in Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis

Jeffrey Perl et al. JAMA. .
No abstract available

Plain language summary

A 62-year-old woman undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD) presented to the clinic with severe abdominal pain and cloudy PD fluid. Seven days prior, she inadvertently broke aseptic technique when tightening a leaking connection of her PD catheter tubing. Cloudy fluid that was drained from her PD catheter was sent for laboratory analysis. What would you do next?

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