[Recovery of renal function after treatment with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis]

The methods of dialysis were rarely studied as factors of recovery of renal function, in patients receiving long term dialysis. The authors report their experience about 400 end-stage renal disease patients treated between 1983 and 1988. The frequency of renal function recovery was 3.9%, irrespective of the dialysis modality. The two main favorable factors were the type of the primary renal disease and the associated potentially reversible factors at the onset of the dialysis. As the hemodialysis group and the peritoneal dialysis group differed regarding these factors, no definite answer could be given. No conclusion will be drawn up without a prospective randomized trial.