Peritoneal Transport Characteristics, Comorbid Diseases and Survival in CAPD Patients

Abstract

These data suggest that a high peritoneal transport rate at initial PET is associated with high mortality, and that this is in part due to an increased prevalence of comorbid disease in H transporters. These H transporters with comorbid diseases represent a subset of patients with an especially poor prognosis. In patients without comorbid diseases, high transport status or low serum albumin concentration was not an independent risk factor for mortality.