DaVita Inc., has launched DaVita Diet Helper to make kidney-friendly meals easy to plan, prepare, and track.

SAN DIEGO—A catheter-chewing cockatoo may have led clinicians to a new tool for the treatment of peritoneal dialysis (PD)-related zygomycete peritonitis. While these infections are rare, they carry a high mortality rate even with treatment. Now, a case study presented here at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in San Diego points to posaconazole as a potentially useful for disseminated zygomycosis.

PERITONITIS IS a frequent complication of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and the most common cause of CAPD failure. About 60% of patients receiving CAPD will have at least one episode of peritonitis during the first year of this mode of dialysis, according to Ram Gokal, MD, Consultant Nephrologist and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. CAPD peritonitis is associated with catheter loss, adhesions, increased protein loss, return to hemodialysis, and considerable morbidity.

BARCELONA--Pro-inflammatory cytokines are a marker for increased cardiovascular and overall mortality in dialysis patients, new research demonstrates.

PENTRAXIN 3, a mediator of inflammation, is markedly elevated in patients on hemodialysis (HD) but not in patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) or in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) not on dialysis, according to researchers.

Serum levels of fetuin-A are a predictor of all-cause, cardiovascular, and non-cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients, a Dutch study found.

Serum levels of fetuin-A predictor of all-cause, cardiovascular, and non-cardiovascular mortality in dialysis patients, a Dutch study found.

A Canadian study shows that East Asian and Indo Asian patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are more likely than white patients to initiate dialysis treatment on peritoneal dialysis (PD).

Patients who initiate renal replacement therapy on peritoneal dialysis (PD) are about 50% less likely to die within 90 days than those who start on hemodialysis (HD), a study found.

Higher levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) are independently associated with adverse outcomes in peritonitis associated with peritoneal dialysis (PD), according to Canadian researchers.