Gastrostomy tube leak in a patient receiving peritoneal dialysis

Aggressive nutritional support is imperative to ensure an optimal quality of life in the management of children with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Supplemental enteral feeds using a gastrostomy tube (G-tube) are commonly used for nutritional support to overcome the barrier posed by anorexia. Some...

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Published in:Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, West) West), 2001-10, Vol.16 (10), p.787-789
Main Authors: BUTANI, Lavjay, BERG, Gerre, MAKKER, Sudesh P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Diagnostic Techniques, Surgical
Emergency and intensive care: renal failure. Dialysis management
Fatal Outcome
Gastrostomy - adverse effects
Humans
Intensive care medicine
Kidney Failure, Chronic - complications
Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy
Laparotomy
Male
Medical sciences
Peritoneal Dialysis - adverse effects
Peritonitis - etiology
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Summary:Aggressive nutritional support is imperative to ensure an optimal quality of life in the management of children with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Supplemental enteral feeds using a gastrostomy tube (G-tube) are commonly used for nutritional support to overcome the barrier posed by anorexia. Some of the reported complications of G-tube feeds in children simultaneously receiving peritoneal dialysis include G-tube exit site infection with concomitant peritonitis and G-tube obstruction. We are reporting our experience in managing an 8-year-old Caucasian male with ESRD who, while receiving peritoneal dialysis and G-tube feeds, developed medically intractable peritonitis due to separation of the stomach wall from the anterior abdominal wall, resulting in peritoneal contamination with gastric contents. This complication, which has not previously been reported in patients receiving peritoneal dialysis, had devastating consequences, culminating in the death of our patient.
ISSN:0931-041X
1432-198X
DOI:10.1007/s004670100674