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Thoracic complications of peritoneal dialysis
G C Hughes1, T L Ketchersid, J M Lenzen
1Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 4, 1999
Abstract:
Approximately 20% of the 100,000 patients in the United States currently undergoing dialysis therapy for end-stage renal disease use the technique of peritoneal dialysis. We present a patient on peritoneal dialysis who developed a large posterior mediastinal mass, which on surgical exploration was found to be a paraesophageal hernia sac filled with omentum and dialysis fluid. We use this case as an introduction to review the thoracic complications of peritoneal dialysis.