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Perit Dial Int 6(4): 203-204 1986
© 1986 International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis
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RUPTURE OF THE SPLEEN: A COMPLICATION OF CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIAL YSIS

C. Abaete de los Santos, Osvaldo von Eye, Domingos d' A vila and Claudio Cora Mottin

From Servico de Nefrologia and Cirurgia Abdominal, Hospital Sao Lucas, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sui, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

A 44-year-old woman on CAPD for 20 months presented with severe intraperitoneal bleeding secondary to rupture of the spleen. On the day of the accident displacement of the Tenckhoff catheter to the left upper quadrant of the abdomen was detected by X-ray. We believe this dislodgement caused the rupture either by direct trauma or erosion of the organ. This complication of CAPD has not been described before.

KEY WORDS: CAPD complications; Intra-peritoneal hemorrhage; Spleen rupture.






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