TY - JOUR AU - Fouque, Denis AU - Nouvier, Mathilde PY - 2020/04/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Retraction: First viral replication of Covid-19 identified in the peritoneal dialysis fluid JF - Bulletin de la Dialyse à Domicile JA - Bull Dial Domic VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Retraction of publication DO - UR - https://bdd.rdplf.org/index.php/bdd/article/view/54713 SP - AB - <p><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title="">Note editor : retraction of case report <a href=" https://doi.org/10.25796/bdd.v3i1.54503 "> https://doi.org/10.25796/bdd.v3i1.54503 </a></span></span></p><p><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="en"><span class="" title="">Dear Editor-in-chief,<br>By this letter we would like to retract our case report entitled « First viral replication of<br>Covid-19 identified in the peritoneal dialysis fluid of a symptomatic patient» that we<br>submitted to your journal one week ago. We indeed wanted to inform the renal<br>community of a potential presence of Covid-19 virus in the peritoneal dialysis fluid in<br>patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis treatment. However, the patient general status<br>impaired and he was transferred to an intensive care unit for acute myocardial<br>insufficiency. During this stay, he was re-checked for a number of other organs<br>alterations. A total of 7 RT-PCR SARS-Cov2 tests , validated by the National Reference<br>Center, were done : 2 by nasopharyngeal swabs, 1 in bronchoalveolar lavage, 3 peritoneal<br>dialysate and one in stool. A serological test was also performed. All tests were found<br>negative. The CT scan was analyzed again by a specialized radiologist and although a<br>COVID-19 pulmonary disease was likely, it was not possible to rule out a pulmonary<br>edema secondary to an acute myocarditis of different origin.<br>Therefore, based on these later information, and after careful discussion with the<br>virologists, we think that the first positive PCR result was erroneous, without clear<br>explanation for this. Until new cases appear, the fact that two subsequent peritoneal<br>dialysate carefully processed were negative indicates that we cannot reliably prove a<br>peritoneal dialysate contamination by COVID-19 virus in our patient. We deeply apologize<br>for this premature publication.<br>M.Nouvier and D.Fouque for the authors</span></span></p> ER -