Dear Dr. Roach: My 96-year-old mother has stage 5 kidney disease (GFR is 12) along with congestive heart failure. She’s not your typical 96-year-old — she is sharp as a tack, still attends church ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Barriers to widespread peritoneal dialysis use in the United States include misaligned incentives, varying data, ...

Use of home-based peritoneal dialysis in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) has increased in the United States following the implementation of important changes in the Medicare payment ...

In this Practice Point commentary, we discuss Wiggins et al.'s systematic review of the treatment of peritonitis, a serious problem in peritoneal dialysis patients. Wiggins and co-workers reported ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of young adults using peritoneal dialysis, 71% and 37% continued with that type at 1 and 5 years, respectively.

More US patients with kidney failure started, stayed on, and switched to peritoneal dialysis following a payment policy implemented in 2011 by Medicare. The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue ...

After a Medicare payment policy related to dialysis was implemented in 2011, use of home-based peritoneal dialysis increased significantly. Increases were seen for both "early" and "late" peritoneal ...

Pre-kidney transplant high creatinine levels in patients on peritoneal dialysis increases the risk for delayed graft function and, among those aged 50 year or older, death-censored graft loss.