A 2-year follow-up study of patients on automated peritoneal dialysis

C Shyam Sunder Rao¹, P Charan¹, G Diwaker Naidu¹, G Swarnalatha¹, R Ram², KV Dakshinamurty^1
1 Department of Nephrology, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Panjagutta, Hyderabad, India
² Department of Nephrology, Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract

Automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) is increasingly being used for the treatment of end stage renal disease. We present our experience of APD at a government run tertiary care institute. APD was initiated for 22 patients between 2002 and 2010. On comparing APD and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients, no difference in patient survival and technique survival was observed. CAPD patients had higher number of peritonitis episodes, greater decline in the serum albumin and a greater number of patients failed to achieve adequacy targets compared to APD.

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