Table of Contents

History of peritoneal dialysis.- Physiology of peritoneal dialysis.- Patient selection and training for PD.- Peritoneal dialysis solutions.- Peritoneal dialysis equipment/machines.- PD catheters.- Adequacy of peritoneal dialysis.- Techniques of peritoneal dialysis.-  Peritoneal dialysis in acute kidney injury: prescribing acute peritoneal dialysis therapy.- Prescribing chronic peritoneal dialysis therapy.- Urgent Start PD.- Infectious complications related to peritoneal dialysis.- Non- infectious complications during peritoneal dialysis.- Common ESRD complication in PD, and the differences with HD.- Peritoneal dialysis in the diabetic patients.- Peritoneal dialysis in special situations.- Survival in peritoneal dialysis population.- Quality of life in PD patients.- Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis vs. automated dialysis: are there differences in the outcome? .-  Peritoneal dialysis in children.- Intraperitoneal chemotherapy.-  Commonly asked questions.- Howto build a successful PD program.- Peritoneal dialysis in developing countries.-

About the Author

Anjay Rastogi, MD, PhD

Director | CORE Kidney Program

Professor and Clinical Chief

Division of Nephrology | Department of Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA

UCLA Health

Los Angeles, CA

USA

Edgar V. Lerma, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine

University of Illinois at Chicago

College of Medicine

Chicago, IL

USA

Joanne M. Bargman, MD, FRCPC

Professor

University of Toronto

Toronto, ON

Canada