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Long-term survival and its relationship to membrane transport status in peritoneal dialysis
M K Dasgupta1, D Perry, R Royer
1Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis. Conference on Peritoneal Dialysis
|October 25, 2000
Abstract:
We evaluated peritoneal membrane transport status (high, high-average, low-average, and low) of 35 patients on persistent peritoneal dialysis (PD) for 5-16 years. We noted that most of these patients (n = 21) had low-average transport by dialysate-to-plasma creatinine (D/PCr) ratio.