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What is Peritoneal Dialysis?

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a treatment for patients with severe chronic kidney failure. The process uses the patient's peritoneum in the abdomen as a membrane across which fluids and dissolved substances (electrolytes, urea, glucose, albumin and other small molecules) are exchanged from the blood.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Kidney Failure 19 7 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Kidney Transplant 1 0

See all 13 patients currently having Peritoneal Dialysis

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 2
Mild
 4
None
 1

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Peritoneal Dialysis

Fatigue 1
Dehydration 1
Loss of appetite 1
Hospitalization 1
Hospitalization 1

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Peritoneal Dialysis

Always
 6 86%
Usually
 1 14%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Peritoneal Dialysis

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 3 43%
A little
 3 43%
Not at all
 1 14%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Peritoneal Dialysis

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 0 0%

Report created on May 27, 2012.