[Life perspectives for patients treated with chronic hemodialysis]

The authors studied life perspectives of patients in a nephrology department using up Kaplan and Meier's analysis. Data of 51 of the patients included in the chronic hemodialysis programme between 1991 and 1997 were studied. The patients were under treatment for 19 months on average, 18% received renal allograft. The three-year life expectation for dialysed patients was 55%, without the transplant patients it was only 40%. The causes of deaths were infection and cardiovascular diseases in 40-40%. The patients life perspectives were better not only in primary renal diseases, but in vascular renal failure also, than in diabetic nephropathy. The authors made comparison between theirs and the national data, and discuss the necessary works to improve their results.