A study of risk factors associated with peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter survival found that a non-infectious catheter-related problem was the only independent variable significantly associated with ...

Conducted over 5 years, from 2008 to 2013, this RCT tried to determine the optimal time for peritoneal dialysis (PD) after catheter insertion in patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease. The ideal ...

First things first, what is dialysis? Dialysis is a treatment that replicates kidney functions when they fail or are unable to function properly. Most of us know that the role of kidneys is to detox ...

ORLANDO—Patients with gram-negative peritonitis (GNP) undergoing early catheter removal have a higher rate of permanent transfer to hemodialysis but a lower death rate compared with GNP patients not ...

One year after patients initiated urgent start peritoneal dialysis in an integrated health care system, they experienced high survival and modality retention rates according to data published in ...

On the occasion of World Kidney Day 2021 being observed on March 11, let's talk about different kinds of dialysis. Chronic kidney disease is one of the major non-communicable diseases affecting 229 ...