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Dialysate leakage into pericardium in an infant on long-term peritoneal dialysis

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We report on a 2-year-old boy on automated peritoneal dialysis (PD) with a history of multiple hernias and dialysate leaks who developed pericardial effusion. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated a peritoneo-pericardial fistula. Dialysis had to be discontinued, since head-down tilt reproducibly induced significant hypotension. In PD patients with pericardial effusion a peritoneo-pericardial leak should be considered.

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  1. Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

    Dagmara Borzych

  2. Radiology, University Hospital for Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sebastain Ley & Jens Schenk

  3. Department of Radiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sebastain Ley & Julia Ley-Zaporozhan

  4. Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University Hospital for Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 153, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Franz Schaefer, Heiko Billing & Claus Peter Schmitt

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Borzych, D., Ley, S., Schaefer, F. et al. Dialysate leakage into pericardium in an infant on long-term peritoneal dialysis. Pediatr Nephrol 23, 335–338 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-007-0615-y

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