Patients with end-stage renal disease who began peritoneal dialysis had lower 1-year hospitalization rates and lower total healthcare costs than those who began therapy with hemodialysis. : To compare ...

Over the past decade new solutions for peritoneal dialysis have been developed in an effort to reduce the bioincompatibility of conventional glucose-containing, lactate-buffered solutions, and thereby ...

In some parts of the world, peritoneal dialysis is widely used for renal replacement in acute renal failure. In resource-rich countries, it has been supplanted in recent years by hemodialysis and, ...