Are peritoneal dialysis patients with and without residual renal function equivalent for survival study?
Background. It remains unknown whether results of survival studies in anuric patients can be extrapolated to those who still have significant urine output. It is possible that after a prolonged period on dialysis, anuric patients are qualitatively different from patients with residual renal function. Methods. We performed a retrospective review to study the cause of death of 296 peritoneal dialysis patients of our centre over a 7 year period, and compared the mortality and distribution of cause of death between patients with and without residual renal function. Results. One hundred and forty-two cases (48.0%) died of vascular diseases, 82 cases (27.7%) died of infections and 72 cases (24.3%) died of other causes. Anuric patients had a higher overall mortality rate than non-anuric patients (14.9 vs 9.9%, P=0.0005), and the difference was almost completely attributed to the difference in mortality from vascular diseases (8.0 vs 4.1%, P<0.0001). Vascular disease was a more common cause of
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