Drainage failure because of spontaneous fracture of the peritoneal dialysis catheter.

摘要

Outflow failure is attributed mostly to mechanical problems such as catheter migration, omental wrapping, constipation, and intraluminal obstruction with fibrin or clot; and it usually occurs shortly after initiation of peritoneal dialysis (PD). Fracture or rupture of the PD catheter is, however, a very unusual cause of drainage failure. We recently experienced a case of early drainage failure because of silicone PD catheter fracture, without previous mechanical or chemical injury, that occurred 1 month after initiation of PD.