Peritoneal dialysis in elderly patients: clinical experience.
Many older patients do not cope well with hemodialysis, yet the proportion of older patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) is considerably lower than for younger patients. This is despite the fact that clinical outcome studies show that older patients cope as well as, if not better than, younger patients on PD. Furthermore, the North Thames Dialysis Study, a prospective study of patients > or = 70 years old, has shown that survival, hospitalization, and quality of life were identical for patients on hemodialysis and patients on PD.
Brown
Edwina A
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Imperial College London, Charing Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom. e.a.brown@imperial.ac.uk
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome