title: Maintenance dialysis in North American children and adolescents: a preliminary report. North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study (NAPRTCS).
abstract: During 1992 the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study (NAPRTCS) began to develop a pediatric Dialysis Patient Data Base by collecting data on pediatric patients who had received either hemodialysis (HD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD), or both, at a participating NAPRTCS center. This preliminary report describes study methods and contains detailed, though short-term observations reported by 64 of 87 NAPRTCS centers on 762 patients who were < 21 years of age at enrollment and who received treatment between January 1, 1992 and September 15, 1992. In these 762 patients, a total of 810 independent courses of dialysis therapy were identified (PD = 534 [65.9%]; HD = 276 [34.1%]). Patients age groupings showed a significantly greater proportion of PD patients among younger age groups. Automated peritoneal dialysis was used by about 75% of registered PD patients at one and six months after registration. A total of 196 peritonitis episodes were reported, yielding a peritonitis rate of one episode every 7.1 patient-months. Ten percent of PD catheters were replaced, primarily for mechanical malfunction and leaks. Percutaneous catheters were used for vascular access in about one-half of the HD patients, with the remainder almost equally divided between arteriovenous fistulae and grafts. Vascular access revision was reported in 28% of HD patients, with about one-third of these revisions performed to create a more permanent access. Recombinant human erythropoietin therapy was used in 89% of PD and 94% of HD patients at six months. Recombinant human growth hormone therapy was used in 9% of PD and 5% of HD patients at six months.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: NAPRTCS Clinical Coordinating Center, SUNY at Brooklyn 11203.
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Alexander
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Harmon
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Stablein
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tejani
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002404:Catheterization; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007256:Information Systems; D007391:International Cooperation; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D009656:North America; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation