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Perit Dial Int 27(Supplement_2): 56-58 2007
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Part 2: Regional Perspectives in PD

VARIOUS OBSTACLES TO PERITONEAL DIALYSIS DEVELOPMENT IN JAPAN: TOO MUCH MONEY? TOO MUCH FEAR?

Yoshindo Kawaguchi

Kanagawa Prefecture Shiomidai Hospital, Yokohama, and Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Correspondence to: Y. Kawaguchi, Kanagawa Prefecture Shiomidai Hospital, 1-6 Shiomidai, Isogo, Yokohama City, Kanagawa 235-0022 Japan.
yoshindo{at}sd5.so-net.ne.jp

At 31 December 2005, the number of patients on maintenance dialysis in Japan was 257,765, with 9599 patients having started dialysis that year. Kidney transplant cases in Japan number about 1000 annually. Thus, almost all endstage renal disease patients in Japan are likely to live on dialysis for the remainder of their lives. For various reasons, peritoneal dialysis has a lower penetration rate among Japanese dialysis patients, and work to educate patients and nephrologists about PD needs to be done.

KEY WORDS: KEY WORDS:; Renal replacement therapy; longevity; dropout; peritonitis; ultrafiltration failure.






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