[The work results in a recently created pediatric dialysis unit]

Results of the first period of two working years in a dialysis unit, at a provincial pediatric hospital, are exposed. A total of 26 patients, 20 children and 6 adults, was submitted to hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Within the first, male sex prevailed and age groups more often submitted to dialysis were those under one year old and school children aged 5-14 years. A total of 370 peritoneal dialysis and 264 hemodialysis was performed to children. In the case of peritoneal dialysis, 11.1% was performed by puncture catheter, for acute patients, and the remainder 88.9% by fixed Tenckhoff's catheter, for patients with chronic renal insufficiency. Diseases that more often require the use of dialytic methods were, in first place, acute renal insufficiency, followed by chronic renal insufficiency and, in second place, obstructive uropathies. At the end of the research, 56.0% of the patients assisted in the dialysis unit was cured, with renal transplantations presenting a good evolution or under periodical dialysis waiting for transplantation. Emphasis is made on the most frequent complications occurred during the performance of the fore-mentioned procedures.