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What are the clinical correlates of adequate peritoneal dialysis?
1Department of Nephrology, The Children's Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA.
Abstract:
The efficacy of peritoneal dialysis in terms of the clearance of small molecules such as urea and creatinine is referred to as "adequacy." Treatment guidelines and adequacy targets have been developed and distributed by the National Kidney Foundation-Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF-DOQI) in an effort to reduce variations in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) treatment. Much effort has been made to determine the correlation between dialysis dose and various clinical outcome measures (eg, hospitalization, mortality) in adults in an attempt to define the optimal dialysis dose. The delineation of this issue in the pediatric ESRD population is more complex because of the small number of patients and the need to define sensitive outcome measures that are unique to children. The review addresses the possible clinical correlates of dialysis adequacy in children that exist today and the additional data on the topic that needs to be collected in the future.
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