Worldwide variation of dialysis-associated peritonitis in children

• Published in: Kidney international Vol. 72; no. 11; pp. 1374 - 1379
• Main Authors: Schaefer, F., Feneberg, R., Aksu, N., Donmez, O., Sadikoglu, B., Alexander, S.R., Mir, S., Ha, I.S., Fischbach, M., Simkova, E., Watson, A.R., Möller, K., von Baum, H., Warady, B.A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.12.2007; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; antibiotics; Argentina; Asia; Child; Child, Preschool; dialysis; Drug Resistance, Bacterial; Europe; global; Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections - drug therapy; Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections - etiology; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - drug therapy; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - etiology; Humans; Incidence; Infant; Infant, Newborn; International Cooperation; Mexico; pediatric; Peritoneal Dialysis - adverse effects; peritonitis; Peritonitis - drug therapy; Peritonitis - etiology; Peritonitis - microbiology; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Prospective Studies; Registries - statistics & numerical data; Treatment Outcome; Turkey; United States; Mexico; Argentina; Turkey; Asia; United States; Europe; dialysis; global; peritonitis; antibiotics; pediatric

Peritonitis is the most common cause of dialysis failure in children on chronic peritoneal dialysis. We performed a prospective study of 501 peritonitis episodes in 44 pediatric dialysis centers located in 14 countries that examined peritonitis etiology, efficiency of opinion-based management guidel...