OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of initial peritoneal transport rate, serum albumin concentration, and comorbid diseases on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patient survival. DESIGN: A prospective single-center study with a long-term follow-up. PATIENTS: A total of 213 consecutive CAPD patients, who underwent a peritoneal equilibration test (PET) at a mean of 7 days (range 3 - 30 days) after beginning CAPD, were included in this study. One hundred twenty patients were male, 116 patients had comorbid diseases, and mean age was 49.5 years (range 18 - 76 years). METHODS: A modified PET was performed using 4.25% glucose dialysis solution. Based on the dialysate-to-plasma creatinine concentration ratio at 4 hours' dwell (D4/P4 Cr, 0.62 +/- 0.14), patients were divided into high (H), high-average (HA), low-average (LA), or low (L) transporters. RESULTS: Of 213 patients, 16.9% were classified as H transporters, 30.5% as HA, 36.6% as LA, and 16.0% as L transporters. The H transporter group had a higher proportion of men, higher proportion of patients with comorbid diseases, lower initial serum albumin concentration, lower D4/D0 glucose, and lower drained volume. The initial D4/P4 Cr correlated with initial serum albumin (r= -0.35, p < 0.001). The patients with comorbid diseases had lower initial serum albumin and higher initial D4/P4 Cr. On Kaplan-Meier analysis, 2-year patient survival of group H was significantly lower compared to the other groups combined (57.1% vs 79.5%, p = 0.009). On Cox proportional hazards analysis, age, comorbid diseases, initial serum albumin concentration, and initial D4/P4 Cr were found to be independent risk factors for mortality. However, in the patients without comorbid diseases, patient survival was not different between group H and the other transport groups combined (p > 0.05), and only age was found to be an independent risk factor for mortality. CONCLUSION: These data suggest that a high peritoneal transport rate at initial PET is associated with high mortality, and that this is in part due to an increased prevalence of comorbid disease in H transporters. These H transporters with comorbid diseases represent a subset of patients with an especially poor prognosis. In patients without comorbid diseases, high transport status or low serum albumin concentration was not an independent risk factor for mortality.

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