Capd in dammam central hospital, Saudi Arabia : a five-year experience

Abstract EN

Thirty-one patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) were offered continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) at the Dammam Central Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia over a period of five years.

The group included 21 women and 10 men with a mean age of 41.3 ± 17.2 years.

The main indication for CAPD was poor or failed vascular access (51.4 %).

Peritonitis remained the major complication with an overall incidence of 0.62 episode per patient year.

Staphylococcus epidermidis was the main causative organism.

Therapy with CAPD lasted a mean of 26 ± 7.4 months.

Our results, showing good technique survival and low peritonitis rate, suggest that CAPD should be promoted to become a full arm of the integrated care of ESRD in Saudi Arabia.