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The plant investigation is in process.A supplemental mdr will be submitted upon completion of this activity. clinical review: there is a possible temporal relationship between peritoneal dialysis utilizing the liberty select cycler with liberty cycler set and the patient event of peritonitis.However, it is unknown whether the peritonitis was diagnosed upon admission to the hospital or after the patient had already been hospitalized.It is unknown if the patient was utilizing fresenius medical care products during the hospitalization.There is no documentation of a causal relationship between the use of the liberty select cycler with liberty cycler set and the patient event of peritonitis.Additionally, there was no allegation or evidence of a device malfunction or deficiency, or cycler set defect reported for this event.Although no information was provided related to culture results or the determined cause of the reported peritonitis, all pd patients are at risk of peritonitis due to a compromised immune system and the increase of potential for microbial contamination from dialysis techniques.Most cases of peritonitis are caused by touch contamination by the patient with the pd catheter being a source of entry for organisms into the peritoneum.Based on limited information and no allegation of a malfunction, deficiency, or defect, and not knowing if the patient was utilizing any fresenius medical care products at the time of the event, the liberty select cycler and cycler set can be excluded as the cause of the patient¿s reported peritonitis event.
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