title: How to persuade peritoneal dialysis - skeptical hemodialysis fans.
abstract: Already from its early decades, peritoneal dialysis (PD) has proved to be efficient and able to confer similar or better chronic patient survival in comparison with hemodialysis (HD). More recent years allowed many PD therapy advances with further outcomes improvement: mortality, hospitalizations and clinical complications all have been reduced across patient's vintages. Adequacy parameters of PD also compare advantageously with the erroneously named 'high-efficiency' HD which is now facing the limitations of intermittent procedures, frailty of KT/V as measure of adequacy, importance of sustained fluid removal and time of dialysis. Adequacy should also include life satisfaction and PD also compares favorably as a home therapy. The best approach, also the most intelligent and cost-effective, would be not to underestimate a different therapy, but discover how complementary it can be for success of long term patient treatment.
authors.forename: Anabela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome