Peritoneal dialysis in Argentina. A nationwide study.

摘要

Although most patients on dialysis are in the USA, Europe, and Japan, the highest rate of growth is expected to take place in the countries of Asia, Middle East, Latin America, and Africa (1). In Latin America, between the years 1992 and 2004 the prevalence of patients on renal replacement therapy (RRT) rose from 129 to 447 patients per million population (pmp) (2). Peritoneal dialysis (PD), like RRT in general, has spread widely around the world and its prevalence varies according to the different regions and countries (3-5). Some of the recent publications reporting its use in Latin American countries are listed in Table 1 (6-13).