Rates of peritonitis associated with dialysis have dropped substantially over time, although there are still consistent differences in risk by race and age, a new retrospective cohort study indicates.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The yearly incident peritoneal dialysis cohort size grew 160% during 9 years, data show. The unadjusted rate of ...

Peritonitis Ups Odds of Mortality in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients Risk of peritonitis elevated six-fold in 30 days before death in patients on treatment Among patients who die while on peritoneal ...

May 24, 2012 — Peritonitis is 6 times more likely to occur in the 30 days before death among people receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD) compared with 6 months earlier, suggesting it may be a factor in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A research team led by Arbor Research Collaborative for Health and St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto was awarded ...

Peritonitis is a frequent complication of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and the most common cause of CAPD failure. About 60% of patients receiving CAPD will have at least one ...

This prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled trial published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) demonstrated that, compared with a reactive strategy of potassium supplementation ...

In this Practice Point commentary, we discuss Wiggins et al.'s systematic review of the treatment of peritonitis, a serious problem in peritoneal dialysis patients. Wiggins and co-workers reported ...

Peritonitis is an infection within the peritoneum, the supportive membrane lining that surrounds and protects the internal abdominal organs. There are multiple types of peritonitis: spontaneous, ...

From 2013-2017, rates of peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis based on Medicare fee-for-service claims data declined by 5% per year from 0.61 episode per patient-year in 2013 to 0.49 in 2017.

Honey No Use for Preventing Peritoneal Dialysis Infections Among patients who die while on peritoneal dialysis, peritonitis is associated with mortality, with the highest odds for peritonitis in the ...