TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-term incidence of peritonitis in CAPD patients treated by the Y set technique
T2 - Experience in a single center
AU - Scalamogna, A.
AU - De Vecchi, A.
AU - Castelnovo, C.
AU - Guerra, L.
AU - Ponticelli, C.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - Our experience of peritonitis in 156 patients over an 8-year period represents 186 episodes of peritonitis and 4,964 patient-months of CAPD. The incidence of peritonitis was significantly greater (1 episode every 8.6 patient-months) when the Oreopoulos technique was used and dropped to 1 episode every 43.3 patient-months when the Y set system was used. Of the 109 patients using the Y set system, 88 (80.7%) never had episodes of peritonitis, whereas only 7 (16.7%) of the 42 patients using the Oreopoulos technique were free of peritonitis. For 23 patients shifted from the Oreopoulos to the Y set technique, the incidence of peritonitis dropped from 1/9.8 to 1/35.2 episodes/patient-months.
AB - Our experience of peritonitis in 156 patients over an 8-year period represents 186 episodes of peritonitis and 4,964 patient-months of CAPD. The incidence of peritonitis was significantly greater (1 episode every 8.6 patient-months) when the Oreopoulos technique was used and dropped to 1 episode every 43.3 patient-months when the Y set system was used. Of the 109 patients using the Y set system, 88 (80.7%) never had episodes of peritonitis, whereas only 7 (16.7%) of the 42 patients using the Oreopoulos technique were free of peritonitis. For 23 patients shifted from the Oreopoulos to the Y set technique, the incidence of peritonitis dropped from 1/9.8 to 1/35.2 episodes/patient-months.
KW - Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
KW - Oreopoulos technique
KW - Peritonitis
KW - Y set system
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M3 - Article
C2 - 2191231
AN - SCOPUS:0025232454
VL - 55
SP - 24
EP - 27
JO - Experimental Nephrology
JF - Experimental Nephrology
SN - 0028-2766
IS - 1
ER -