Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterium Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis: A Case Report of Mycobacterium neoaurum
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) related peritonitis is a common cause for PD technique failure. In up to 20% of cases conventional cultures are negative, and nontuberculous mycobacteria are rarely identified as a cause. A 60-year-old man treated with peritoneal dialysis as kidney replacement therapy presented to care with two months of malaise, abdominal pain, and cloudy PD effluent. Effluent analysis demonstrated a marked neutrophil-predominant pleocytosis, but no organisms were identified on Gram stain or on initial cul …