BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease is a frequent cause of death in peritoneal dialysis patients. Biocompatible peritoneal dialysis solutions with neutral pH have been anticipated to reduce cardiovascular disease more than conventional peritoneal dialysis solutions with low pH, but it remains unclear which factors at peritoneal dialysis initiation increase cardiovascular risk in patients using bi...

Uniform vascular access guidelines for elderly patients may be inappropriate because of the competing risk of death, high rate of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) maturation failure, and poor vascular access outcomes in this population. However, the outcomes in elderly patients with advanced CKD who receive permanent vascular access before dialysis initiation are unclear. We identified a large natio...

SINCE its introduction, peritoneal dialysis has been used more frequently in Canada than in the United States, Europe or Japan. In Toronto, during 1979, 413 patients were maintained on dialysis in 5 teaching hospitals; of these, 232 (56 per cent) were on peritoneal dialysis. This figure reflects the superiority of peritoneal dialysis as a home treatment Wither as intermittent peritoneal dialysi...

We extracted data from the French Speaking Registry of Peritoneal Dialysis and retrospectively studied peritonitis outcome 30 patients with polycystic kidney disease firstly treated peritoneal dialysis within our unit since 1997.
 There were 15 men women a mean age 54 years. Eighty-five per-cent had hepatic impairment. Ten did not suffer comorbidities. Charlson comorbidity index was greate...

BACKGROUND Inadequate anaemia correction (haemoglobin (Hb) <11 g/dl without receiving an erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) is common in pre-dialysis patients, but little is known about its determinants. We used data from the French end-stage renal disease (ESRD) registry to investigate these determinants and the patients' anaemia status 1 year after starting dialysis. METHODS Pre-dialysi...

overhydrated patients. This made it possible to relieve the uraemic patient from congestive heart failure and to control arterial blood pressure. Ultrafi ltration is generally applied continuously or intermittently, while the dialysis procedure (diffusion of substances across the dialysis membrane) is going on. During the last few years, short-time dialysis (3–4 hr 3 times a week or every other...

The Korean Society of Nephrology (KSN) launched a nationwide official survey program about dialysis therapy in 1985. Nowadays, the accumulated data for 30 years by this "Insan Prof. Min Memorial end-stage renal disease (ESRD) Registry" program have been providing the essential information for dialysis clinical practice, academic nephrology research, and health management policy. We reviewed 30 ...

AIM The percentage of people in Australia who undertake home dialysis has steadily decreased over the past 40 years and varies within Australia. Consumer factors related to this decline have not previously been determined. METHODS A 78-question survey was developed and piloted in 2008 and 2009. Survey forms were distributed to all adult routine dialysis patients in all Australian states and t...

Automated reporting of eGFR by laboratories has been widely implemented during the last decade. Over this same period, a steady increase in eGFR at dialysis initiation has been reported. This study examined trends in eGFR at dialysis initiation over time among incident dialysis patient populations before and after eGFR reporting. All patients who initiated dialysis between January of 2001 and D...

In the past decade, peritoneal dialysis use among patients with end-stage renal disease has declined in many countries. Studies from the United States indicate that many academic centers do not have adequate resources to train fellows, most incident dialysis patients are not offered peritoneal dialysis, and more than half of dialysis clinics do not have the infrastructure to support peritoneal ...