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A Complication in a Hemodialysis Patient

Manash K. Ghose, MD; James E. Sampliner, MD; Peter Cohn, MD; Otto Roza, MD

JAMA. 1970;214(1):145.

Abstract
A patient undergoing chronic hemodialysis had perforation of the colon. Constipation aggravated by antacids was a presumable cause. Attention to a simple complaint may prevent a disaster.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Nephrology and the divisions of medicine and surgery, Mt. Sinai Hospital of Cleveland.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Mt. Sinai Hospital of Cleveland, University Circle, Cleveland 44106 (Dr. Roza).

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