The Italian Registry of Pediatric Chronic Peritoneal Dialysis: A Ten-Year Experience with Chronic Peritoneal Dialysis Catheters

Abstract

Catheter-related infections were confirmed to be the most common complication and most frequent cause of peritoneal catheter removal. In addition, catheter survival rate was worse in younger children, indicating that more effort should be made to improve peritoneal catheter survival particularly in this age group.