How do you manage a patient on peritoneal dialysis who develops a single episode of cloudy effluent with a low cell count and no organisms on Gram stain while remaining clinically well?
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Nephrology · UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH)
There is a relatively broad differential diagnosis for patients presenting with cloudy dialysis fluid that appears to be non-infectious in nature (Rocklin & Teitelbaum, PMID 11208038). While the differential for fluid that is totally acellular is relatively narrow - fibrin or triglycerides are the u...