Progress in peritoneal dialysis (PD)

In the last decade Peritoneal Dialysis treatment has grown specially due to the new technique known as CAPD. However, there are still a lot of problems that need to be solved such as: infection rate, new solutions and improvement of catheters and devices in order to make it safer and to decrease the complications resulted from variants called Peritoneal Dialysis on Alternate Days (PDAD) and Equilibrium Peritoneal Dialysis used in the cases of acute renal failure. Improved PD is suitable to treat the patients in many parts of the world who do not receive any treatment at present.