title: Peritoneal dialysis in patients with primary cardiac failure complicated by renal failure.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Clinical outcome in cardiorenal syndrome type II and treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD).
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective analysis over a period of 10 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Twenty-four patients with mean age at start of dialysis of 67 ± 10 years had mean survival on dialysis of 1.03 ± 0.84 years (median survival 1.0 year). The number of hospitalizations for cardiovascular causes were reduced (13.7 ± 26.5 predialysis vs. 3.5 ± 8.8 days/patient/month postdialysis, p = 0.001). Patients who survived longer than the median survival time (n = 12) also had a reduced number of hospitalizations for all causes (3.7 ± 3.8 predialysis vs. 1.4 ± 2.1 days/patient/month postdialysis, p = 0.041), a lower age (62 ± 10 vs. 71 ± 8 years, p = 0.013) and fewer had diabetes (2 vs. 7 patients, p = 0.039), but left ventricular ejection fraction was not different.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  After starting PD for cardiorenal syndrome, hospitalizations for cardiovascular causes were reduced for all patients. Survival after starting PD is highly variable. Age and diabetes seem to be significant prognostic factors, but not left ventricular ejection fraction.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands. nynke.cnossen@mumc.nl
authors.forename: T T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Cnossen
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Kooman
authors.forename: C J A M
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Konings
authors.forename: N H M K
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Uszko-Lencer
authors.forename: K M L
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Leunissen
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: van der Sande
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D011379:Prognosis; D051437:Renal Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013318:Stroke Volume; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome