Effects of Increased Peritoneal Clearances on Mortality Rates in Peritoneal Dialysis

Paniagua, Ramón; Amato, Dante; F. Vonesh, Edward; Correa‐Rotter, Ricardo; Ramos, Alfonso; Moran, John; Mujais, Salim

doi:10.1681/asn.v1351307

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Effects of Increased Peritoneal Clearances on Mortality Rates in Peritoneal Dialysis

Published in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology • May 1, 2002

Authors:

Ramón Paniagua

Dante Amato

Edward F. Vonesh

Abstract

Small-solute clearance targets for peritoneal dialysis (PD) have been based on the tacit assumption that peritoneal and renal clearances are equivalent and therefore additive. Although several studies have established that patient survival is directly correlated with renal clearances, there have bee...

Subject

Peritoneal dialysis

Medicine

Renal function

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