...Insoo Kim; Sei Hong Min; Hoi Woul Lee; Jung Nam An; Hyung Seok Lee; Sung Gyun Kim; Jwa-Kyung Kim Introduction: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an effective home therapy for end-stage kidney disease. However, continuous exposure to PD fluids with high glucose concentration and recurrent peritonitis may...

..., the impact in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients is less well understood. Methods: In this study of 359 PD patients, sarcopenia was identified using appendicular skeletal muscle per square meter (ASM/m 2 ), with cut-off values of <7.0 kg/m 2 for men and <5.5 kg/m 2 for women. Fat tissue index (FTI...

...Ankur D. Shah; Shagun Vashisth; Christina A. Raker; Susie L. Hu Introduction: Peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis (PDAP) is a serious complication of peritoneal dialysis, associated with significant morbidity, modality transition, and mortality. Here, we provide an update on the national...

... modalities, including peritoneal dialysis (PD). Several studies have shown a significant increase in PD utilization after PPS implementation. However, its impact on patients with kidney allograft failure remains unknown. Methods: We conducted an interrupted time series analysis using data from the US Renal...

...Danai Faitatzidou; Artemios G. Karagiannidis; Marieta P. Theodorakopoulou; Andrew Xanthopoulos; Filippos Triposkiadis; Pantelis A. Sarafidis Background: In patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD), cardiovascular events represent the predominant cause...

...Caroline W. H. de Fijter; Joanna Stachowska-Pietka; Jacek Waniewski; Bengt Lindholm Recently, hyperosmolar hyponatremia following excessive off-label use of two exchanges of 2 L icodextrin daily during peritoneal dialysis (PD) was reported. We encountered a cluster of 3 cases of PD patients who...

...Szu-Yuan Li; Cheng-Yen Chen; Ming-Tsun Tsai; Niang-Cheng Lin; Chin-Su Liu; Chih-Ching Lin Introduction: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a well-established treatment choice for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). While there are several methods for PD catheter insertion, they each have limitations...

... in the peritoneal dialysis (PD) population. This study aimed to explore the long-term effects of TM on the mortality and technique failure. Methods: The Peritoneal Dialysis Telemedicine-assisted Platform Cohort Study (PDTAP Study) was conducted prospectively in 27 hospitals in China since 2016. Patient and practice...

...Bruno Legendre; Thierry Lobbedez; Cécile Couchoud; Mathilde Lassalle; Isabelle Kazes; Antoine Lanot; Annabel Boyer; Clémence Béchade Introduction: Switch from hemodialysis (HD) to peritoneal dialysis (PD) is unfrequent, but incentive strategies to perform PD can lead to an increase...

... in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients in the late 1990s provided considerably variable estimates of the prevalence and control of hypertension. The present study aimed to investigate the current state of hypertension management in this high-risk population. Methods: In 140 stable PD patients, we performed...

...: conventional thrice-weekly in-center hemodialysis, nocturnal in-center hemodialysis (NICHD), home hemodialysis (HHD), or peritoneal dialysis (PD) from 2007 to 2011. We used marginal structural models fitted with inverse probability weights to adjust for fixed and time-varying confounding and informative...

... Global epidemiology End-stage kidney disease Kidney replacement therapy Dialysis Hemodialysis Peritoneal dialysis Kidney transplant Disparities Income Mortality NIH End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is a rapidly increasing global health and health care burden. The inability...

...Annabel Boyer; Antoine Lanot; Mark Lambie; Christian Verger; Sonia Guillouet; Thierry Lobbedez; Clémence Béchade Introduction: There is limited information on the trends of peritoneal dialysis (PD) technique survival over time. This study aimed to estimate the effect of calendar time on technique...

...Miho Murashima; Takayuki Hamano; Masanori Abe; Ikuto Masakane Introduction: Previous studies showed that the combination of peritoneal dialysis (PD) and once-weekly hemodialysis is associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. This study aimed to compare the incidence...

...) population, with high mortality rates reported among patients on hemodialysis. However, the degree to which it has affected the peritoneal dialysis (PD) population in the United States has not yet been elucidated. In this report, we describe the clinical characteristics, presentations, clinical course...

...Maria-Eleni Alexandrou; Olga Balafa; Pantelis Sarafidis Background: The majority of patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD) suffer from volume overload and this overhydration is associated with increased mortality. Thus, optimal assessment of volume status in PD is an issue of paramount...

...Herma Uiterwijk; Casper F.M. Franssen; Johanna Kuipers; Ralf Westerhuis; Ferdau L. Nauta Introduction: Loss of residual renal function (RRF) as well as high peritoneal glucose exposure are associated with increased peritonitis frequency in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. Our objective...

...Soo Jeong Choi; Yoshitsugu Obi; Gang Jee Ko; Amy S. You; Rieko Eriguchi; Mengjing Wang; Connie M. Rhee; Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Background: It is not clear whether peritoneal dialysis (PD) and home hemodialysis (HHD) have similar outcomes, and little is known about how mortality associated with HHD...

...Luis Bravo González-Blas; Leticia García-Gago; Daniela Astudillo-Jarrín; Catuxa Rodríguez-Magariños; Antía López-Iglesias; Teresa García Falcón; Ana Rodríguez-Carmona; Miguel Pérez Fontán Background: The evidence linking low serum sodium levels with the risk of mortality in peritoneal dialysis (PD...

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