PERITONITIS RISK FOR OLDER PATIENTS ON PERITONEAL DIALYSIS

摘要

With advances in medicine and an improved Living environment, more people survive into old age. The increasing proportion of elderly people in the general population is accompanied by an age-related increase in the incidence of chronic renal failure. In recent years, the elderly dialysis population has increased rapidly in mostdeveloped countries around the world. Records from the Hong Kong Renal Registry showed 3321 peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients in Hong Kong on 1 August 2006. Among them, 1465 (44.1%) were 65 years of age or older. More Liberal acceptance criteria for dialysis is a majorfactor contributing to the rapid growth of the elderly dialysis population.