Patients with end-stage renal disease who opt for peritoneal dialysis experience no greater risk of catheter infection than those who undergo hemodialysis, a new study has found. Patients with ...

As blood in the peritoneal capillaries comes into contact with dialysate in the peritoneal cavity, solutes in the blood diffuse into the dialysate. The osmotic gradient created by glucose in the ...

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Patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis catheter placement via fluoroscopy and ultrasound-guidance experienced significantly fewer complications at 1 year post-insertion than did patients whose ...

ED Highly Prevalent in Men with Failed Hypospadias Repair Follow-up procedures are significantly more likely to be required if PD catheters are inserted by interventionalists instead of general or ...

Conducted over 5 years, from 2008 to 2013, this RCT tried to determine the optimal time for peritoneal dialysis (PD) after catheter insertion in patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease. The ideal ...