Original scientific paper
ASSISTED PERITONEAL DIALYSIS
DRAGAN KLARIĆ
; Zadar General Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Zadar, Croatia
INGRID PRKAČIN
; Merkur University Hospital, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
According to the National Registry of Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT), the incidence of chronic kidney disease (end-stage renal disease) and the need of RRT have declined in the last decade renal. One of the reasons for this tendency certainly is transplantation as the best choice. However, transplant procedure has limitations in elderly patients due to the number of comorbidities. This study was designed as retrospective analysis of outcomes in patients treated with peritoneal dialysis for a period of eleven years. Patients were divided into those who had been assisted or unassisted. Out of 100 patients treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD), 77 completed the treatment, including 26 assisted and 51 unassisted patients. Peritonitis was recorded in 20 assisted and 26 unassisted patients. Peritonitis was more common in unassisted patients, who were more frequently lost from PD. Assisted PD could be a good and safe choice of RRT in this special group of patients.
Keywords
peritoneal dialysis; elderly patients; assisted; unassisted
Hrčak ID:
126790
URI
Publication date:
14.9.2014.
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