Gastroscopy-Related Peritonitis in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Dialysis Effluent from Patients with Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Peritonitis

5 Yu-Tzu Chang, Hsuan-Chen Wang, Ming-Cheng Wang, An-Bang Wu, Junne-Ming Sung, 6 a H. Sunny Sun, Ih-Jen Su, Wei-Chih Kan, Chih-Chiang Chien, Jyh-Chang Hwang, 7 Hsien-Yi Wang, Chin-Chung Tseng,* Chi-Jung Wu,* 8 9 Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital and Medical 10 College, Tainan, Taiwan; National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, 11 National H...

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 ...

The impact of peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis on mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients

BACKGROUND Results concerning the association between peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis and mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients are inconclusive, with one potential reason being that the time-dependent effect of peritonitis has rarely been considered in previous studies. This study aimed to evaluate whether peritonitis has a negative impact on mortality in a large cohort of peritone...

Treatment of peritoneal dialysis related peritonitis.

Early Onset Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Peritonitis

Peritonitis is a serious and common complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD), representing the commonest cause of technique failure and a not infrequent cause of patient death. Early onset peritonitis, variously defined in the literature as peritonitis occurring within the first 3-20 months of PD, is increasingly being recognised as a discrete and important clinical problem with appreciably hei...