Abdominal cocoon in peritoneal dialysis – a fatal outcome
- Department of Renal Transplant Surgery, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK
- Correspondence to Mr Mohamed Saleem Noormohamed, smithnsal{at}yahoo.co.uk
Description
Sclerosing peritonitis (SP, encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis or abdominal cocooning) is an inflammatory process affecting the peritoneum diffusely and constitutes a rare but life-threatening (figure 1), serious complication in patients on long-term continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD).1 2 An overall prevalence of 0.7%2 has been described in literature. The pathogenicity of this condition still …
