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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Health care providers should try to decrease frequency of infections, which are the leading cause of technique ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...