Sevcan A Bakkaloğlu, Yeşim Özdemir Atikel, Claus Peter Schmitt, Eszter Lévai, Shazia Adalat, Nadine Goodman, İsmail Dursun, Ayşe Seda Pınarbaşı, Burcu Yazıcıoğlu, Fabio Paglialonga, Karel Vondrak, Isabella Guzzo, Nikoleta Printza, Aleksandra Zurowska, Ilona Zagożdżon, Aysun Karabay Bayazıt, Bahriye Atmış, Marcin Tkaczyk, Maria do Sameiro Faria, Ariane Zaloszyc, Augustina Jankauskienė, Mesiha Ekim, Alberto Edefonti, Rukshana Shroff
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS: Hospital admissions in pediatric dialysis patients need to be better studied, and most existing studies are retrospective and based on registry data. This study aimed to analyse and compare hospital admission rates, causes, length of stay (LOS), and outcomes in children treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD) and hemodialysis (HD). METHODS: Data from 236 maintenance PD and 138 HD patients across 16 European dialysis centers were collected between 1 July 2017 and 30 June 2018...
January 2024: Clinical Kidney Journal