Peritonitis is a frequent complication of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and the most common cause of CAPD failure. About 60% of patients receiving CAPD will have at least one ...

Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Dr. Umesh Khanna, Chairman of Mumbai Kidney Foundation, Mumbai to know about the National Dialysis Program and t..

There is no difference in quality of life between patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing hemodialysis and those having continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) in the ...

A patient, who requires dialysis on a daily basis has to use around 100-120 CAPD bags a month. This is being given free of cost by the TN government, while it would cost around Rs 50,000 to Rs ...

Around 7-8 thousand patients would be on Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) or Peritoneal dialysis. Similarly, around 8-10 thousand people in India would receive a kidney transplant.

“If we could make the CAPD (Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis) procedure popular, then they could receive the treatment at home,” Prof Harun-Ur-Rashid, President of Bangladesh Kidney ...

A Yugoslavian study of 84 continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients found that more than half were depressed, and levels of proinflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 but not of anti ...

The prevalence of sleep apnea was 4.2% during NPD and 33.3% during CAPD ( P = 0.016), a lower prevalence than in the first group of patients, possibly because this group had a higher residual ...

CHENNAI: Patients undergoing dialysis for kidney failure at the Government Stanley Medical College Hospital can now have it done at home or can stay ambulant. The hospital has introduced ...