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Prevention of Peritonitis in Peritoneal Dialysis [PDF]

Seminars in Dialysis, 2013
AbstractReducing the frequency of peritonitis for patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD) continues to be a challenge. This review focuses on recent updates in catheter care and other patient factors that influence infection rates. An experienced nursing staff plays an important role in teaching proper PD technique to new patients, but nursing ...
Segal, Jonathan H., Messana, Joseph M.
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Repeat and Relapsing Peritonitis Microbiological Trends and Outcomes: A 21-Year Single-Center Experience

International Journal of Nephrology, 2021
Peritonitis is a major peritoneal dialysis complication. Despite a high cure rate, relapsing and repeat peritonitis is associated with Tenckhoff catheter biofilm and multiple episodes of peritoneal damage.
Marina Reis, Catarina Ribeiro, Ana Marta Gomes, Clara Santos, Daniela Lopes, João Carlos Fernandes   +5 more
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A Retrospective Analysis of Peritoneal Dialysis-associated Peritonitis at a Single-care Children’s Hospital in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, 2021
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) may lead to infection, which could cause dialysis failure. Estimates of infectious peritonitis rate, identification of causative microbes, and infection outcomes are scarcely reported in Saudi Arabia.
Marwh Aldriwesh, Lama Alajroush, Reem Alangari, Shog Alzaben, Hanan Alsmail, Khamisa Almokali, Rania Alotibi, Fatmah Othman, Primrose Freestone   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Differences between computed tomoghaphy and surgical findings in acute complicated diverticulitis [PDF]

, 2019
Summary Background/Objective: A preoperative reliable classification system between clinical and computed tomography (CT) findings to better plan surgery in acute complicated diverticulitis (ACD) is lacking.
Brachini, Gioia, Casciani, Emanuele, Cirillo, Bruno, Costa, Gianluca, Frezza, Barbara, La Torre, Marco, Lanciotti, Silvia, Mastroiacovo, Ilaria, Mingoli, Andrea, Sapienza, Paolo, Speranza, Annarita   +10 more
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Peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis: challenges and solutions

International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease, 2018
Peritoneal dialysis is an effective treatment modality for patients with end-stage renal disease. The relative use of peritoneal dialysis versus hemodialysis varies widely by country.
W. Salzer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluation of modifiable risk factors for peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis: a single-center retrospective cohort study

Renal Replacement Therapy, 2021
Background Peritoneal dialysis (PD)-related peritonitis risk factors can be categorized as modifiable and uncorrectable. We aimed to identify modifiable risk factors for PD-related peritonitis in our facility to prevent PD-related peritonitis and ...
Shigeki Kojima, Shohei Yamada, Rie Fujishima, Kenichiro Koitabashi, Yugo Shibagaki, Tsutomu Sakurada   +5 more
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Peritonitis-induced peritoneal injury models for research in peritoneal dialysis review of infectious and non-infectious models

Renal Replacement Therapy, 2017
Peritonitis is an important complication of peritoneal dialysis. Several animal peritonitis models have been described, including bacterial and fungal models that are useful for studying inflammation in peritonitis. However, these models have limitations
Yasuhiko Ito, Hiroshi Kinashi, Takayuki Katsuno, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Masashi Mizuno   +4 more
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Human neutrophil clearance of bacterial pathogens triggers anti-microbial gamma delta T cell responses in early infection [PDF]

, 2011
Human blood Vc9/Vd2 T cells, monocytes and neutrophils share a responsiveness toward inflammatory chemokines and are rapidly recruited to sites of infection.
A Boëdec, A Matsushima, A Reichenberg, AC Brown, AC Hayday, AC Hayday, Amanda C. Brown, B Altincicek, B Moser, Bernhard Moser, C Agrati, C Belmant, C De Santo, C Münz, CC Szeto, Chan-Yu Lin, CM Bunke, Colin Hill, Cormac G. M. Gahan, CT Morita, CT Spencer, CT Weaver, D Vermijlen, David W. Johnson, DI Godfrey, DJ Pennington, DK Kim, E Oldfield, E. John Wherry, F Annunziato, F Dieli, F Sallusto, G Sarikonda, Gareth W. Roberts, GW Roberts, H Jomaa, H Jomaa, H Li, H Wang, H Wei, I Müller, J Feurle, J Mookerjee-Basu, James A. Chess, JF Bukowski, JJ O'Shea, John D. Williams, JS Savill, K Pietschmann, KJ Puan, KK Kumarasamy, KM Murphy, L Troidle, M Begley, M Begley, M Blunden, M Bonneville, M Brandes, M Eberl, M Eberl, M Eberl, M Eberl, M Eberl, M Fahim, M Kistowska, M Krishnan, M Pelletier, M Rohmer, MA Missinou, Mark A. Toleman, Martin S. Davey, Matthias Eberl, MC Devilder, MC Devilder, MI Hirsh, MJ Llewelyn, N Nathan, N Topley, Nicholas Topley, O Devuyst, P Choi, P Constant, PS Evans, R Medzhitov, RE Rojas, RM McLoughlin, S Amslinger, S Mujais, Simon J. Davies, Sinéad Heuston, SJ Davies, SM Hurst, SR Gill, T Ganz, Tanya Parish, TR Walsh, TW Rice, W Holtmeier, Y Kato, Y Neu, Y Tanaka, Y Zhang   +101 more
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Peritoneal dialysis in older adults: evaluation of clinical, nutritional, metabolic outcomes, and quality of life [PDF]

, 2018
The number of older adults requiring dialysis is increasing worldwide, whereas the use of peritoneal dialysis (PD) in this population is lower respect to younger patients, despite the theoretical advantages of PD respect to hemodialysis.
Aceto, Paola, Amabile, MARIA IDA, Bargagli, Matteo, Gnerre Musto, Tania, Group on Geriatric Nephrology of the Italian Society of Nephrology (SIN), Study, Lai, Carlo, Lai, Silvia, Martinez, Andrea, Mastroluca, Daniela, Molfino, Alessio, Testorio, Massimo   +10 more
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Evaluation of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis fluid C-reactive protein in patients with peritonitis

Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, 2016
Severe peritonitis causing death is one of the most devastating complications of peritoneal dialysis (PD). Since the predictive value of C-reactive protein (CRP) in PD fluid has not been assessed, the objective of the present study is to evaluate its ...
Kumaresan Ramanathan, Giri Padmanabhan, Bhooma Vijayaraghavan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source