...Sergio Ruiz Vega; Carl Russell lll; Siting Zhang; Mignon McCulloch; Aaron Lottes; Hyowon Lee; Danielle E. Soranno Introduction: The lack of peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheters designed explicitly for neonates creates significant challenges in the provision of neonatal PD. High resource settings can...

...Terumasa Hayashi; Susumu Miyazaki; Kazuhiro Iwase; Taisuke Takatsuka; Daisuke Yoshimura; Tomohiro Kawamura; Yukimasa Iwata; Hiroki Okushima; Yoshiyasu Ueda; Yoshitaka Isaka Introduction: Inguinal hernia and genital edema are relatively common complications of peritoneal dialysis (PD). Although...

..., IHD might not be started immediately. Immediate urgent-start peritoneal dialysis (iUSPD) is used as a life-saving dialysis option and then followed by IHD. The outcomes of iUSPD were compared with other extracorporeal dialysis in MALA. Methods: In two tertiary hospitals in Thailand, the outcomes...

...Wen Gu; Ming Zhang; Changna Liang; Shaohui Ma; Xiaopei Wang; Huijie Yuan; Zhaoyao Luo; Jing Lv Introduction: Chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus (CKD-aP) frequently occurs in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD) and presents a therapeutic challenge...

...Yi-Hsuan Huang; Chia-Man Chou; Sheng-Yang Huang; Hou-Chuan Chen Introduction: This study aimed to identify risk factors affecting outcomes in pediatric patients requiring emergent peritoneal dialysis (PD) for all causes, focusing on survival rates, kidney function recovery, PD duration...

...Takahiro Kasai; Yoshito Iida; Takahide Kimura; Masayuki Tanemoto Introduction: In peritoneal dialysis (PD), managing peritoneal glucose uptake is a clinical challenge, as the uptake leads to peritoneal ultrafiltration loss. Peritoneal expression of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) suggests...

... marker of the clinical outcome. Methods: Twenty-two patients with peritoneal dialysis (PD)-related peritonitis were enrolled. Peritonitis was divided into Gram-positive, Gram-negative, polymicrobial, and sterile. WBC count and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) in PD effluent were measured...

...Muhammad M. Javaid; Adel Ekladious; Behram A. Khan Despite comparable outcomes with the extracorporeal dialysis modalities, peritoneal dialysis (PD) is seldom considered a viable option for managing acute kidney injury (AKI) in developed and resource-rich countries, where continuous renal...

...-19) pandemic, some renal replacement therapy (RRT) modalities were insufficient, forcing medical centers to diversify the RRT modalities offered. In this study, we reported the outcomes of chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients and acute PD in critically ill patients during COVID-19 pandemic...

... and dialysis modality on fatigue. This study aims to explore the potential relationship between fatigue and insomnia, as well as psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and depression among patients who undergo peritoneal dialysis (PD) or hemodialysis (HD). Methods: There were 96 HD patients and 160 PD patients...

...Camila Albuquerque Alves; Viviane Cálice-Silva; Elaine Mari Rufino; Durval Garms; Helen Caroline Ferreira; Mariane Baptistella; Dayana Bitencourt Dias; Marcela Lara Mendes; Vanessa Burgini Banin; Daniela Ponce Introduction: Unplanned peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an important option for chronic...

...Zhiyun Zang; XiaoFang Wu; Dengyan Ma; Xiaoxiao Xia; Xueqin He; Xiaolei Chen; Zi Li Introduction: Some biomarkers in drained dialyzate or peritoneal membrane have been found related to the dialyzate/plasma ratio of creatinine at 4 h (D/P Cr) in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD). But so...

... Peritoneal dialysis Peritoneal injury Fig. 1. Classification of MMPs. The pathogenesis of EPS is unclear, and the currently recognized possible mechanism is the “two-hit theory” [ 15 ]. The first hit was the chronic peritoneal injury caused by continuous PD, which was characterized...

... Carvalho; Patrícia Branco; Pedro Maia; Raquel Chorão; Rui Castro; Rui Silva; Tânia Sousa; Teresa Mendes; on behalf of Peritoneal Dialysis’ Study Group of the Portuguese Society of Nephrology Introduction: Exit-site infection (ESi) prevention is a key factor in lowering the risk of peritonitis. This study...

... of this study was to compare the quantification methods of 24-h and 4-h collections. Methods: This study included 81 prevalent peritoneal dialysis patients. Demographics and clinical and bioelectrical impedance features were registered. PPL was measured (4-h PET and 24-h results) and peritoneal protein...

...Ruth Campbell; Isaac Teitelbaum Apart from its use in patients with end-stage kidney disease or acute kidney injury, there has recently been interest in the potential use of peritoneal dialysis for other, nonrenal indications. Herein, we review two nonrenal areas that are currently being evaluated...

...). Methods: In the present study, we perform a 4-year study of patients who received peritoneal dialysis (PD) or haemodialysis (HD) at the Paediatric Nephrology Unit of the University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria. Subgroup analysis was performed on patients with sepsis or malaria AKI who underwent HD...

...Nihit Shah; Ann Cole; Kate McCarthy; Jyoti Baharani Introduction: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) remains underutilised in the West. The proportion of patients in the UK starting renal replacement therapy (RRT) with PD fell from 7.2% in 2011 to 6.0% in 2016. At our centre, 8.4% of dialysis patients...

...: This study’s objective was to compare mortality of patients on chronic hemodialysis (HD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD) and identify variables associated with mortality. Methods: This retrospective cohort study included adult incident patients with kidney failure treated with HD or PD by the Baxter Renal Care...

...Sabrina Milan Manani; Grazia Maria Virzì; Ilaria Tantillo; Anna Giuliani; Silvia Dian; Matteo Marcello; Elisa Costa; Davide Marturano; Claudio Ronco; Monica Zanella Introduction: A well-functioning peritoneal catheter is key to success of peritoneal dialysis (PD). The Vicenza “short” catheter...