Introduction:

Fungal peritonitis is an infrequent but serious complication for a patient on home peritoneal dialysis.

Objective:

To describe a case of fungal peritonitis in a patient on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD).

Methods:

A 53-year-old male patient is reported, with a history of arterial hypertension, 9 years on continuous outpatient peritoneal dialysis, moderate protein-energy malnutrition. During his treatment, he had several episodes of bacterial peritonitis, exit-site infections, and repositioning of a peritoneal catheter with an extruded cuff. We worked with his antecedents, clinical status, etiological agent and treatment. The diagnosis was established by the presence of cloudy peritoneal fluid, cell count higher than 100 leukocytes / ul, and culture with the presence of the filamentous fungus.

Results:

In December 2017, he was diagnosed with fusarium peritonitis, with no leukocytosis or anemia, he did present hypoalbuminemia. A culture was performed on the wall of the room where the patient had his exchanges and filamentous fungus was found. Initially, treatment started with vancomycin and ceftazidime, followed by amikacin. Finally, after having a culture showed the pathogen, treatment with itraconazole started. Unfortunately the patient died 20 days later.

Conclusions:

This research analyzes clinical and microbiological aspects of fusarium peritonitis, which are poorly understood in home peritoneal dialysis

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