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Isaac Teitelbaum1, Frederic O Finkelstein2
1Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
Abstract:
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) offers lifestyle advantages over in-center hemodialysis (HD) and is less costly. However, in the United States, less than 12% of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients are maintained on this modality. In this brief review, we discuss some of the factors underlying the low prevalence of PD. These include inadequate patient education, a shortage of sufficiently well-trained medical and nursing personnel, absence of infrastructure to support urgent start PD, and lack of support for assisted PD, among other factors. Understanding and addressing these various issues may help increase the prevalence of PD in the United States and globally.
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