[Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and renal transplantation]

From 1981 to 1987, 792 renal transplantations were performed in our center: 60 (7.5%) patients were on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Patient and graft survivals, are identical to those obtained in hemodialysis patients. Complications due to the technic of peritoneal dialysis (peritonitis, ascite, peritoneal breach) were rarely observed and without influence on the evolution of the transplant. The risk of arterial thrombosis could not be assumed. Our present experience confirm our previous results: CAPD may be regarded as the first choice method for young patients in whom rapid grafting is planned on account of their immune status.