Eosinophilic peritonitis in a patient under continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis successfully treated with steroids

Abstract

A 28 year-old woman with chronic kidney disease stage 5 and hemodialysis in 2007. She received a first kidney transplant from related live donor and suffered chronic graft rejection returning to hemodialysis in 2011. In 2015, the patient entered to continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and ten days after the placement of the catheter, while she was in the training of the technique of peritoneal dialysis, she presented a murky dialysis fluid, without an abdominal pain or fever, with eosinophilia in the peritoneal fluid and peripheral blood. She received prednisone with resolution of the problem.