Peritoneal dialysis

An antibiotic therapy known to reduce catheter-related bloodstream infections in hemodialysis patients has been shown for the first time to reduce mortality, according to a Henry Ford Health System study.

A research group formed by the North American chapter of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis has landed funding for its first project.

For kidney failure patients, peritoneal dialysis is not uncommon. It makes use of your peritoneal membrane to filter wastes and extra fluid from your body. But sometimes abdominal pain occurs during peritoneal dialysis. What is the problem?

A lack of comfortable products for the safety of the patient requiring peritoneal dialysis-indicated to clean waste products from the blood when the kidneys fail- drove a student of the Higher Technological Institute of Choapas, Veracruz in the east coast of México, to develop an ergonomic support, allowing that the catheter inserted through the abdominal wall to remain in place and be protected from the invasion of microorganisms.

When I see patients in PD clinic, I encounter similar questions. This page should answer many commonly asked questions regarding peritoneal dialysis in different languages.

iPad shuffled to "Bust a Move", Young MC. Party over here!!  Way to wake up. :-)  I'm really on a mission to do the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan (NKFM) Zoo Walk.  I mean, I'm motivated to walk, not just for me but for whatever the NKFM does for research, preventative education and assistance for people with kidney issues. But it's more than personal for me now.  My Wendell is very ill.

The impact of dialysis modality survival is still somewhat controversial because there are conflicting research results about the survival differences between Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) and Hemodialysis (HD), especially during the first 2 years of dialysis treatment. The survival discrepancies among Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients using different dialysis modalities is hard to pin-down because of differential rates of modality switching, varying rates of Kidney Transplantation, and possible differences in patients’ personal characteristics leading to death.

A research group formed by the North American chapter of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis has landed funding for its first project.

Forms of home dialysis are on the rise, as it puts more responsibility and control in the hands of patients. But whether the growing use of the therapy will improve national dialysis outcomes remains

I met a 26 year old woman recently who was referred by a friend of the family for a second opinion. I seem to get a lot of new patients in this way.  She was found to have advanced kidney failure, and needed to go on dialysis immediately.  Unfortunately, the prior year she had seen her primary care doctor for headaches and was noted to have a blood pressure of 140/85.  But no kidney function tests were given. 

As the incidence of end stage renal disease increases across the globe, so too do the survival rates of peritoneal dialysis patients. It is notable though, that peritoneal dialysis utilization does not follow at the same pace, attributable into the high technique failure rates, mainly due to peritoneal catheter dysfunction. A new systematic review and meta-analysis by Hagen et al. reveals that the use of straight catheters may improve outcomes and technique survival.

398,861 people with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) are being treated with some form of dialysis while 172,553 ESRD patients have a working Transplanted Kidney, according to the  National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Of those patients, only 8% conduct dialysis at home, and yet an even smaller percentage of people who have ESRD conduct Peritoneal Dialysis (PD). The National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC), notes that 26,114 dialysis patients use PD, 2,455 people choose home Hemodialysis (HD), and the vast majority of people on dialysis conduct in-center HD (370,292).