title: Slovenian renal replacement therapy registry: excerpts from the 2006 annual report.
abstract: The total number of end-stage renal disease patients treated by renal replacement therapy (RRT) in Slovenia on 31 December 2006 was 1835, that is, 913 per million population (pmp). Of these patients, 1271 (69%) were treated by hemodialysis, 102 (6%) by peritoneal dialysis, and 461 (25%) had a functioning kidney graft. Two hundred and forty-nine incident patients, 124 pmp (at day one), started RRT: median age 66 years, 60% men, 30.5% diabetics. Of the hemodialysis patients, 77% were dialyzed in hospital and 23% in private dialysis centers. Hemodiafiltration was used in 38% of the hemodialysis patients. The vascular accesses were native arteriovenous fistulas in 84%, polytetrafluoroethylene grafts in 5%, and hemodialysis catheters in 11% of patients. The crude death rate of dialysis patients was 14.7%, of transplant recipients 1.35%, of both dialysis and transplant patients 11.4%. The number of patients positive for hepatitis B or C viruses is stable and low at 2.3% of the dialysis patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, University Medical Center Ljubljana, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. jadranka.buturovic@mf.uni-lj.si
authors.forename: Jadranka
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Buturović-Ponikvar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D017583:Hemodiafiltration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000453:epidemiology; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012042:Registries; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017524:Slovenia / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult