[Morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing dialysis. Comparison of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Our experience].
BACKGROUND
We have compared the hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis populations of our Center for morbidity and mortality, in a retrospective study of six years of activity.


METHODS
We enrolled 125 patients (104 patients/year/million inhabitants), who had been in chronic dialysis from 1992 to 1997: 90 (22-90 years old) initiated in hemodialysis and 35 (27-82 years old) in peritoneal dialysis.


RESULTS
We have evaluated survival and morbility, as hospitalization/patient/year in both groups. Mortality did not prove significantly different in the two groups. The global average of hospitalization was 8 days/patient/year for hemodialysis and 6 for peritoneal dialysis.


CONCLUSIONS
In spite of the short time of observation and the exiguity of numbers, our experience shows that the two methods are equivalent.
Biamino
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UOA di Nefrologia e Dialisi, Regione Piemonte, ASL 19, Asti.
Caligaris
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F
Cesano
G
G
Decostanzi
E
E
Ferrero
S
S
Imarisio
P
P
Bongiorno
P
P
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality*; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate