Home peritoneal dialysis during infancy.

Abstract

We have recently trained two sets of parents to perform home peritoneal dialysis on their infants with chronic renal failure. Chronic dialysis was initiated before the age of one year with a body weight of less than 10 kg. The infants were maintained on dialysis for 10 and 13 months respectively awaiting cadaveric transplantation. Both infants had marked growth failure while on chronic home dialysis. Although one infant had three episodes of peritonitis, the other had none during 10 months of dialysis. Chronic home peritoneal dialysis was well tolerated in both infants.