COMPLICATIONS OF LONG TERM CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS (CAPD)

Peritonitis-related deaths in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients.

A total of 636 episodes of peritonitis occurred in 440 patients who entered our continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) program from September 1977 to February 1988. Sixteen patients (8 male and 8 female, aged 37-77 years) died during an episode of peritonitis (fatality rate 2.5%). They had been on CAPD for 3 to 105 (average 39) months. Six of them were diabetics. The peritonitis rate ...

Listeria monocytogenes peritonitis during continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)

Respiratory muscle strength during continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD).

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of chronic renal failure (CRF) and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) on respiratory muscle function. Global respiratory muscle strength was assessed by measuring mouth pressures during maximum static inspiration (PIMAX) near residual volume (RV) and expiration (PEMAX) near total lung capacity (TLC), in 26 patients. Maximum p...

Beta-2 microglobulin removal during continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD).

Beta-2 microglobulin (B2M) handling in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) was characterized in acute and chronic clinical studies. Average clearance rate was 0.7 mL/min and mean mass transfer coefficient, KoA, was calculated to be 0.95 cm2/min; these values are in the range expected from extrapolation of published data for other large solutes. In chronic studies with both anuric a...

Long-term pneumoperitoneum in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) caused by handling fault of Stay.Safe® system associated to bicaVera solution

We found chronic pneumoperitoneum in two continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients from two different hospitals. Both patients used the Stay.Safe® system and bicaVera solution, whose extension tubing is not primed with fluid but air-filled, unlike that of the conventional solution bags. This fact, together with a handling fault common to both patients, resulted in the inflow of the air...