NDT Advance Access originally published online on May 21, 2007
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2007 22(8):2360-2361; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm258
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Is abdominal surgery still a contraindication for peritoneal dialysis?
Nephrology Department, Valdecilla Universitary Hospital, Santander, Spain
Correspondence and offprint requests to: Rosa Palomar, Nephrology Department, Marqués de Valdecilla Hospital. Avda. Marqués de Valdecilla s/n, 39008 Santander, Spain. Email: nefpfm@humv.es
Keywords: peritoneal dialysis; abdominal surgery
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Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) is considered an underutilized modality of renal replacement treatment (RRT) in our media if we compare with other countries as Canada [1], with an incidence that has reached a plateau in the last years (Figure 1). In the 2005 Spanish Registry only 14% started RRT with PD,