Acute Peritonitis - Articles
Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
by
xoxomarebear
The doctors' best guess, which can't be confirmed, about what happened with Vivienne is Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis. Basically, they feel that early on the bacteria caused a problem in Vivienne's gut that lead to a rapidly increasing accumulation of fluid (the ascites). The pro ...
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Mesenteric or peritoneal cyst
by
Catherine
Daddy's nose, mama's lips in a pout, Reuben's face, Buttercup at 32 wksDaddy's nose, mama's lips in a pout, Reuben at exactly the same age, 32 wksThe cyst is the middle black circular mass, measuring 2cmJust woken from a 4hr afternoon nap in time for the night shift. Whoops. Dr Neil Silverman was so very compassionate upon our arrival, saying as s ...
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Post-Acute Withdrawal Symptoms
by
Bill H.
... sues, which is surprising since I've worked long and often with people who struggle breaking free of addictive behaviors. I had a conversation with a client today about Post-Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PAWS), so I thought it would be a good thing to write about. The immediate symptoms that occur when breaking free of an addiction typically include ...
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Six years of normalcy - Peritoneal Dialysis Part 1
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Kamal S.
March 2006, Chennai, India"We're here to meet Dr. Georgi Abraham.""Doctor has not yet come, sir. Please wait. You're the sixth in the list.""Sixth!", I thought to myself. After he comes, it would be a good one hour atleast. My dad and I settled down in the waiting area on one of the upper floors of the Madras Medical Mission Hospital at Mogapair in ...
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Six years of normalcy - Peritoneal Dialysis Part 3
by
Kamal S.
Within a few months I had become quite comfortable with PD. The best part was there were no diet and fluid restrictions. I did put on some weight and flab because of all the glucose that was being absorbed by my body from the dialysis solution. I couldn't care less however.I soon decided to take up atleast a part time job. I was feeling wasted and ...
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Six years of normalcy - Peritoneal Dialysis Part 4
by
Kamal S.
In December 2004, a few friends and I planned a trip to Mahabalipuram in South India at a beach resort. We reached on Christmas night. The next morning, the tsunami struck (you can find a more elaborate account of this here).My catheter and exit site were completely in the filthy water that the tsunami brought with it. I took strong antibiotics imm ...
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the department of health meeting and peritoneal dialysis
by
golightly
the department of health meeting and peritoneal dialysis I attended a meeting the other day at the Department of Health (very posh building near the London Eye full of brainy doctory types doing lots of important medical research) about the changes that could be made to the pathway of peritoneal dialysis. I have never really talked about my 3 and ...
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Six years of normalcy - Peritoneal Dialysis Part 2
by
Kamal S.
"How much more time is Dr. Georgi going to take?""We don't know, sir. He said he is on his way."It was back to the waiting area. It was the beginning of summer in Chennai and the waiting area had one humble fan. It was a little hot.PD had given my life back to me. To think I expected Dr. Shastry to refuse to let me try it!Dr. Shastry came to my bed ...
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Six years of normalcy - Peritoneal Dialysis Part 5
by
Kamal S.
At that point it was decided to remove the PD catheter, give the whole area some rest, let the infections be totally cured and then put in a new catheter. I would need to go back for some time on Hemodialysis after all. Dr. Girish Narayen's experience had helped.So, back to the operating table. The PD catheter was removed. And I was back after more ...
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the department of health meeting and peritoneal dialysis
by
golightly
I attended a meeting the other day at the Department of Health (very posh building near the London Eye full of brainy doctory types doing lots of important medical research) about the changes that could be made to the pathway of peritoneal dialysis. I have never really talked about my 3 and a half years on this type of dialysis in my blog. This is ...
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