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Volume 30, Number 1

THE EFFECTS OF PREVIOUS ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS AND INTRAPERITONEAL ADHESIONS ON THE OUTCOME OF PERITONEAL DIALYSIS CATHETERS

Amir Keshvari, Mohammad Sadegh Fazeli, Alipasha Meysamie, Sepideh Seifi, Mohammad Kazem Nouri Taromloo
Perit Dial Int 2010 30: 41–45. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ARTERIAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY AND PERITONEAL TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS INDEPENDENTLY PREDICT HOSPITALIZATION IN CHINESE PERITONEAL DIALYSIS PATIENTS

Ni Gao, Bonnie Ching-Ha Kwan, Kai-Ming Chow, Kwok-Yi Chung, Wing-Fai Pang, Chi-Bon Leung, Philip Kam-Tao Li, Cheuk-Chun Szeto
Perit Dial Int 2010 30: 80–85. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Volume 29, Number 6

LENGTH OF TIME ON PERITONEAL DIALYSIS AND ENCAPSULATING PERITONEAL SCLEROSIS: POSITION PAPER FOR ISPD

Edwina A. Brown, Wim Van Biesen, Fredric O. Finkelstein, Helen Hurst, David W. Johnson, Hideki Kawanishi, Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Graham Woodrow, the ISPD Working Party
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 595–600. [Full Text] [PDF]  

PERITONEAL SMALL SOLUTE CLEARANCE IS NONLINEARLY RELATED TO PATIENT SURVIVAL IN THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND PERITONEAL DIALYSIS PATIENT POPULATIONS

Markus Rumpsfeld, Stephen P. McDonald, David W. Johnson
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 637–646. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Volume 29, Number 5

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC FINDINGS CHARACTERISTIC FOR ENCAPSULATING PERITONEAL SCLEROSIS: A CASE-CONTROL STUDY

Anniek Vlijm, Jaap Stoker, Shandra Bipat, Anje M. Spijkerboer, Saffire S.K.S. Phoa, Robbert Maes, Dirk G. Struijk, Raymond T. Krediet
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 517–522. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

RETROPERITONEAL LEAKAGE AS A CAUSE OF ACUTE ULTRAFILTRATION FAILURE: ITS ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS IN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS

Man Fai Lam, Wai Kei Lo, Kai Chung Tse, Terrence P.S. Yip, Sing Leung Lui, Tak Mao Chan, Kar Neng Lai
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 542–547. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Volume 29, Number 4

ICODEXTRIN IMPROVES METABOLIC AND FLUID MANAGEMENT IN HIGH AND HIGH-AVERAGE TRANSPORT DIABETIC PATIENTS

Ramón Paniagua, María-de-Jesús Ventura, Marcela Ávila-Díaz, Alejandra Cisneros, Marlén Vicenté-Martínez, María-del-Carmen Furlong, Zuzel García-González, Diana Villanueva, Oscar Orihuela, María-del-Carmen Prado-Uribe, Guadalupe Alcántara, Dante Amato
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 422–432. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A COMBINED CRYSTALLOID AND COLLOID PD SOLUTION AS A GLUCOSE-SPARING STRATEGY FOR VOLUME CONTROL IN HIGH-TRANSPORT APD PATIENTS: A PROSPECTIVE MULTICENTER STUDY

Philippe Freida, Belkacem Issad, Max Dratwa, Thierry Lobbedez, LieLing Wu, John K. Leypoldt, Jose Carolino Divino-Filho
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 433–442. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

 

Volume 29, Number 3

ASSOCIATION OF PERITONEAL DIALYSIS CLINIC SIZE WITH CLINICAL OUTCOMES

Laura C. Plantinga, Nancy E. Fink, Fredric O. Finkelstein, Neil R. Powe, Bernard G. Jaar
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 285–291. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

TECHNIQUE FAILURE AND CENTER SIZE IN A LARGE COHORT OF PERITONEAL DIALYSIS PATIENTS IN A DEFINED GEOGRAPHIC AREA

Bayode Afolalu, Laura Troidle, Osasu Osayimwen, Jaya Bhargava, Jenny Kitsen, Fredric O. Finkelstein
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 292–296. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

THE HONEYPOT STUDY PROTOCOL: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF EXIT-SITE APPLICATION OF MEDIHONEY ANTIBACTERIAL WOUND GEL FOR THE PREVENTION OF CATHETER-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS IN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS PATIENTS

David W. Johnson, Carolyn Clark, Nicole M. Isbel, Carmel M. Hawley, Elaine Beller, Alan Cass, Janak de Zoysa, Steven McTaggart, Geoffrey Playford, Brenda Rosser, Charles Thompson, Paul Snelling, the HONEYPOT Study Group
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 303–309. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

 

Volume 29, Number 2

APPLYING TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN UNDERSTANDING COMPLICATIONS AND DEFINING TARGETS FOR INTERVENTION: INFLAMMATION IN PD AS A MODEL

Roberto Pecoits–Filho
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 135–141. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PREVIOUS COMORBIDITY AND LACK OF PATIENT FREE CHOICE OF TECHNIQUE PREDICT EARLY MORTALITY IN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS

José Portolés, Gloria del Peso, M. José Fernández-Reyes, M. Auxiliadora Bajo, Paula López-Sánchez, the GCDP
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 150–157. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

EFFECTS OF IONIZED SODIUM CONCENTRATIONS ON ULTRAFILTRATION RATE IN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS USING LACTATE AND LACTATE/BICARBONATE SOLUTIONS

Vincenzo La Milia, Monica Limardo, Monica Crepaldi, Francesco Locatelli
Perit Dial Int 2009 29: 158–162. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]