Life After Capo

1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 51-53
Author(s):  
Clair C. Williams

Of 508 patients trained for CAPD during the first five years, 115 (22.6%) were transferred to an alternative dialysis modality. Of these 87% were transferred to centre dialysis programs, equally divided between hemodialysis and intermittent peritoneal dialysis. Advanced age favoured transfer to intermittent peritoneal dialysis and failure due to peritonitis, transfer to hemodialysis. Three year survival after transfer from CAPD was 38%. The presence of diabetes and advanced age adversely affected survival after transfer. Dialysis modality and peritonitis as the cause of CAPD failure did not affect survival. Other treatment options are available to patients who fail CAPD. A relatively high drop-out is therefore acceptable and preferable to continuing CAPD in patients encountering complications which might ultimately influence their survival. Since its introduction in Toronto in 1977, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) has achieved increasing prominence in the management of end-stage renal disease. Throughout its comparatively short history, one of the major criticisms of this technique has been the relatively high drop-out rate. This report provides a follow-up of patients transferred from CAPD to alternative dialysis modalities.

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 56-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belén Marrón ◽  
Juan Carlos Martínez Ocaña ◽  
Mercedes Salgueira ◽  
Guillermina Barril ◽  
José M. Lamas ◽  
...  

♦ Background Despite advances in predialysis care, morbidity and mortality remain high. ♦ Objectives To analyze end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patient demographics and clinical data on education on dialysis treatment options, type of chronic renal replacement therapy (RRT), and effects of planned versus non-planned dialysis start. ♦ Methods 621 patients, from 24 Spanish hospitals, who started RRT in 2002. Peritoneal or vascular access at dialysis initiation was considered “planned.” ♦ Results 304 (49%) patients were non-planned and half of them had prior nephrology follow-up. Of the patients with ≥3 months nephrology follow-up (76% of all), only half were educated on dialysis modalities. Dialysis education was associated with planned start in 73.4% versus 26% in non-educated patients ( p < 0.05), shorter follow-up (55 vs 65 months, p = 0.033), more medical visits in the prior year (6.5 vs 4.4, * p < 0.001), more patients starting peritoneal dialysis (31% vs 8.3%*), and more specific follow-up by ESRD unit versus general nephrology care (63% vs 26%*). Non-planned start was associated with older age (63 vs 60.6 years, p = 0.06), fewer medical visits (4.6 vs 6.4*), less education about modality options, and greater use of hemodialysis (92% vs 75%*). Planned patients had better biochemical parameters at start of dialysis. ♦ Conclusion Despite nephrology follow-up, half the patients did not have a planned dialysis start. Planned start was associated with better clinical status. More patients chose peritoneal dialysis when educated about dialysis modality options. ESRD-specific units were more likely to provide patient education.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thamron Keowmani ◽  
Anis Kausar Ghazali ◽  
Najib Majdi Yaacob ◽  
Koh Wei Wong

Background: The effect of dialysis modality on the survival of end-stage renal disease patients is a major public health interest. Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, all adult end-stage renal disease patients receiving dialysis treatment in Sabah between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2017 as identified from the Malaysian Dialysis and Transplant Registry were evaluated and followed up through December 31, 2018. The endpoint was all-cause mortality. The observation time was defined as the time from the date of dialysis initiation after the onset of end-stage renal disease to whichever of the following that came first: date of death, date of transplantation, date of last follow-up, date of recovered kidney function, or December 31, 2018. Weighted Cox regression was used to estimate the effect of dialysis modality. Analyses were restricted to patients with complete data on all variables. Results: 1,837 patients began hemodialysis and 156 patients started with peritoneal dialysis, yielding 7,548.10 (potential median 5.48 years/person) and 747.98 (potential median 5.68 years/person) person-years of observation. 3.1% of patients were lost to follow-up. The median survival time was 5.8 years (95% confidence interval: 5.4, 6.3) among patients who started on hemodialysis and 7.0 years (95% confidence interval: 5.9, indeterminate) among those who started on peritoneal dialysis. The effect of dialysis modality was not significant after controlling for confounders. The average hazard ratio was 0.80 (95% confidence interval: 0.61, 1.05) with hemodialysis as a reference. Conclusion: There was no evidence of a difference in mortality between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.


2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 562-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tripti Singh ◽  
Brad C. Astor ◽  
Sana Waheed

Introduction Low serum albumin is associated with high mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on chronic dialysis. Clinicians are reluctant to offer peritoneal dialysis (PD) as an option for dialysis for patients with low serum albumin due to concerns of loss of albumin with PD, but evidence supporting differences in outcomes is limited. We evaluated mortality based on dialysis modality in patients with very low serum albumin (< 2.5 g/dL). Methods We analyzed United States Renal Data System (USRDS) data from 2010 to 2015 to assess mortality by modality adjusted for age, sex, race, employment, number of comorbidities, and year of dialysis initiation. Results Low serum albumin (< 2.5 g/dL) was present in 78,625 (19.9%) of 395,656 patients with ESRD on chronic dialysis. Patients with low serum albumin were less likely to use PD as their first modality than those with higher albumin (3.1% vs 10.9%; p < 0.001). Use of PD was associated with lower mortality compared with hemodialysis (HD) (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.88, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.81 – 0.95, p < 0.05) in patients with low serum albumin. This difference was more pronounced in patients who had glomerulonephritis (HR = 0.72) or hypertension (HR = 0.81) than in those with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) due to diabetes mellitus or other causes. Conclusion Peritoneal dialysis is less likely to be the first dialysis modality in patients with low serum albumin requiring dialysis. However, PD is associated with lower mortality than HD in patients with low serum albumin on dialysis. We recommend advocating the use of PD in patients with low serum albumin.


2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yao-Peng Hsieh ◽  
Chia-Chu Chang ◽  
Yao-Ko Wen ◽  
Ping-Fang Chiu ◽  
Yu Yang

ObjectivePeritoneal dialysis (PD) has become more prevalent as a treatment modality for end-stage renal disease, and peritonitis remains one of its most devastating complications. The aim of the present investigation was to examine the frequency and predictors of peritonitis and the impact of peritonitis on clinical outcomes.MethodsOur retrospective observational cohort study enrolled 391 patients who had been treated with continuous ambulatory PD (CAPD) for at least 90 days. Relevant demographic, biochemical, and clinical data were collected for an analysis of CAPD-associated peritonitis, technique failure, drop-out from PD, and patient mortality.ResultsThe peritonitis rate was 0.196 episodes per patient–year. Older age (>65 years) was the only identified risk factor associated with peritonitis. A multivariate Cox regression model demonstrated that technique failure occurred more often in patients experiencing peritonitis than in those free of peritonitis ( p < 0.001). Kaplan–Meier analysis revealed that the group experiencing peritonitis tended to survive longer than the group that was peritonitis-free ( p = 0.11). After multivariate adjustment, the survival advantage reached significance (hazard ratio: 0.64; 95% confidence interval: 0.46 to 0.89; p = 0.006). Compared with the peritonitis-free group, the group experiencing peritonitis also had more drop-out from PD ( p = 0.03).ConclusionsThe peritonitis rate was relatively low in the present investigation. Elderly patients were at higher risk of peritonitis episodes. Peritonitis independently predicted technique failure, in agreement with other reports. However, contrary to previous studies, all-cause mortality was better in patients experiencing peritonitis than in those free of peritonitis. The underlying mechanisms of this presumptive “peritonitis paradox” remain to be clarified.


2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 502-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Lee Jung ◽  
Jae Yoon Park ◽  
Chung Sik Lee ◽  
Dong Ki Kim ◽  
Chun-Soo Lim ◽  
...  

Background Peritoneal dialysis (PD) has become an increasingly important treatment modality for end-stage renal disease. However, application of PD in patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) and subsequent outcomes have not been thoroughly evaluated. Methods A total of 1,366 patients (≥ 18 years old) who started PD at 4 tertiary referral centers between January 2000 and December 2015 were initially reviewed. Among them, 45 patients with LC were finally analyzed (LC-PD). Using the multivariate Cox hazard ratio (HR) model, outcomes such as technique failure, infection, and mortality in patients with LC-PD were compared with those in non-LC-PD patients (non-LC-PD) or patients with LC who received hemodialysis (LC-HD). All of the patients were selected by 1:1 matching of age, sex, catheter insertion date, and diabetes mellitus. Results During the mean follow-up duration of 43 ± 35.8 months, 12 patients with LC-PD experienced technique failure, and this rate was similar to that of non-LC-PD patients. In evaluating infection episodes, the most common causes for peritonitis and exit-site infection were Escherichia coli (5.8%) and Staphylococcus aureus (19.3%), respectively; these event rates of LC-PD did not differ from those of non-LC-PD. The all-cause mortality rate of the LC-PD group was not different from that of the non-LC-PD and LC-HD groups. Conclusion Dialysis outcomes such as technique failure, infection, and mortality are not affected by the presence of LC. Accordingly, PD therapy is a good option in patients with LC.


2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn F. Wolfgram ◽  
Aniko Szabo ◽  
Anne M. Murray ◽  
Jeff Whittle

Background Compared with similarly aged controls, patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have a higher prevalence of cognitive impairment and more rapid cognitive decline, which is not explained by traditional risk factors alone. Since previous small studies suggest an association of cognitive impairment with dialysis modality, we compared incident dementia among patients initiating hemodialysis (HD) vs peritoneal dialysis (PD) in a large national cohort. Methods This is a retrospective cohort study of incident dialysis patients in the United States from 2006 to 2008 with no diagnosis of dementia prior to beginning dialysis. We evaluated the effect of initial dialysis modality on incidence of dementia, diagnosed by Medicare claims data, adjusted for baseline demographic and clinical data from the USRDS registry. Results Our analysis included 121,623 patients, of whom 8,663 initiated dialysis on PD. The mean age of our cohort was 69.2 years. Patients who initiated PD had a lower cumulative incidence of dementia than those who initiated HD (1.0% vs 2.7%, 2.5% vs 5.3%, and 3.9% vs 7.3% at 1, 2, and 3 years, respectively). The risk of dementia for patients who started on PD was lower compared with those who started on HD, with a hazard ratio (HR) = 0.46 [0.41, 0.53], in an unadjusted model and HR 0.74 [0.64, 0.86] in a matched model. Conclusions Dialysis modality is associated with incident dementia in a cohort of older ESRD patients. This finding warrants further investigation of the effect of dialysis modality on cognitive function and evaluation for possible mechanisms.


2022 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueqin Wu ◽  
Yong Zhong ◽  
Ting Meng ◽  
Joshua Daniel Ooi ◽  
Peter J. Eggenhuizen ◽  
...  

BackgroundA significant proportion of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated glomerulonephritis eventually progresses to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) thus requiring long-term dialysis. There is no consensus about which dialysis modality is more recommended for those patients with associated vasculitis (AAV-ESRD). The primary objective of this study was to compare patient survival in patients with AAV-ESRD treated with hemodialysis (HD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD).MethodsThis double-center retrospective cohort study included dialysis-dependent patients who were treated with HD or PD. Clinical data were collected under standard format. The Birmingham vasculitis activity score (BVAS) was used to evaluate disease activity at diagnosis and organ damage was assessed using the vasculitis damage index (VDI) at dialysis initiation.ResultsIn total, 85 patients were included: 64 with hemodialysis and 21 with peritoneal dialysis. The patients with AAV-PD were much younger than the AAV-HD patients (48 vs. 62, P &lt; 0.01) and more were female (76.2 vs. 51.6%, P = 0.05). The laboratory data were almost similar. The comorbidities, VDI score, and immuno-suppressive therapy at dialysis initiation were almost no statistical difference. Patient survival rates between HD and PD at 1 year were 65.3 vs. 90% (P = 0.062), 3 year were 59.6 vs. 90% (P &lt; 0.001), and 5 years were 59.6 vs. 67.5% (P = 0.569). The overall survival was no significant difference between the two groups (P = 0.086) and the dialysis modality (HD or PD) was not shown to be an independent predictor for all-cause death (hazard ratio (HR) 0.73; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.31–1.7; P = 0.473). Cardio-cerebrovascular events were the main cause of death among AAV-HD patients while infection in patients with AAV-PD.ConclusionThese results provide real-world data that the use of either hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis modality does not affect patient survival for patients with AAV-ESRD who need long-term dialysis.


Author(s):  
O. Burdeyna ◽  
N. Stepanova ◽  
M. Kolesnyk

The aim of the study was to evaluate retrospectively the survival of the peritoneal dialysis (PD) technique survival and identify the factors that affect it. Patients and methods. A total of 38 patients with end-stage renal disease treated with PD from 2005 to May 2017 have been included in retrospective, study (average age 49.6 ± 5.6). Data were collected from medical records. Results. The average survival rate of the PD method in our center was 53.3 ± 7.4 months, and in patients with nondiabetic kidney disease it was significantly higher. During the follow-up only 11/38 (28.9 %) patients continue treatment of PD, 12/38 (31.6 %) were changed to HD, 4/38 (10.6 %) patients kidney transplantation was performed and 11/38 %) died. The main reason of the letal cases was cardiovascular complications (36.6 %). The patient mortality was significantly depended on the diuresis volume and the level of GFR at the time of PD initiation. Conclusions. PD technique survival in our center correlate with the results of the PD treatment patients worldwide.


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