A Patient Required Peritoneal Catheter Removal Caused by Peritoneal Dialysis-related Peritonitis due to Gram-negative Rod-like Pseudomonas aeruginosa During Antibiotic Therapy for Enterococcus faecalis.

In this report, we describe a case in which, during antibiotic therapy for PD-related peritonitis due to Enterococcus faecalis alone, the patient suffered another occurrence of peritonitis due to newly revealed Gram-negative rod-like Pseudomonas aeruginosa. He required catheter removal due to the peritonitis being suspected of relapsing. Although so further investigations are required, it is possible that early catheter removal is effective in cases in which another organism is newly detected during antibiotic therapy for PD-related peritonitis caused by a different responsible organism not meeting the definition of refractory peritonitis. PMID: 32475900 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Nippon Medical School - Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Tags: J Nippon Med Sch Source Type: research