[Morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing dialysis. Comparison of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Our experience]
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Surgical Techniques for Catheter Placement and 5/6 Nephrectomy in Murine Models of Peritoneal Dialysis
Published on: July 19, 2018
E Biamino1, F Caligaris, G Cesano
1UOA di Nefrologia e Dialisi, Regione Piemonte, ASL 19, Asti.
Background:
We have compared the hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis populations of our Center for morbidity and mortality, in a retrospective study of six years of activity.
Methods:
We enrolled 125 patients (104 patients/year/million inhabitants), who had been in chronic dialysis from 1992 to 1997: 90 (22-90 years old) initiated in hemodialysis and 35 (27-82 years old) in peritoneal dialysis.
Results:
We have evaluated survival and morbility, as hospitalization/patient/year in both groups. Mortality did not prove significantly different in the two groups. The global average of hospitalization was 8 days/patient/year for hemodialysis and 6 for peritoneal dialysis.
Conclusions:
In spite of the short time of observation and the exiguity of numbers, our experience shows that the two methods are equivalent.
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