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FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE DIFFERENCES IN PERITONITIS RATES BETWEEN CENTERS AND REGIONS

Center for Health and Biological Sciences,¹ Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, and Department of Internal Medicine,² University Hospital, Botucatu School of Medicine, UNESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Correspondence to: R. Pecoits–Filho, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Rua Imaculada Conceição, 1155, Curitiba PR 80215 Brazil. r.pecoits{at}pucpr.br

Despite improvements in connectology, peritoneal dialysis (PD)–associated peritonitis contributes significantly to morbidity and modality failure in patients maintained on PD therapy. A broad spectrum of organisms—gram-positive, gram-negative, fungal, anaerobic—are involved in this complication. In addition, a significant percentage of episodes involve polymicrobial and culture-negative infection. Technological advances are being developed to minimize the incidence of access-related complications such as peritonitis. Many traditional factors such as exit-site infection and poor technique have been already identified. In the present review, we discuss the geographic, patient selection, and clinical issues that can affect peritonitis rates in different areas of the world and in different centers in the same area.

KEY WORDS: Peritonitis; infection; risk factors; complications.

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