Three Patients on Capd for ten Years - Once a Life Time Scheme

Abstract

There is a dearth of data regarding the performance and survival of long term PD patients. We retrospectively analysed three patients who were on CAPD for nearly ten years from our centre. Oithese three studied, two were women, and a man with age 49, 43 and 56 years respectively. All 3 were non vegetarians doing 2L X 4 exchanges of dianeal and were anuric for overt years. Mean ultrafiltration volume was 1300mL, 1200mL and 1500mL. Their last Ktili was 2, 1.96 and 2. The primary renal disease was diabetic nephropathy in the male and hypertensive nephropathy in the two female. One lady had a clotted allograft in 2005 which was removed. Male diabetic patient died after ten years following a fungal peritonitis which necessitated catheter removal.