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SUBMITTER: da Costa LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6980492 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
da Costa Laurisson Albuquerque LA Andreoli Maria Cláudia Cruz MCC Carvalho Aluizio Barbosa AB Draibe Sérgio Antonio SA Pestana José Osmar Medina JOM Canziani Maria Eugênia Fernandes MEF
PloS one 20200124 1
<h4>Introduction</h4>Brazil ranks second in the absolute number of transplantations in the world. Despite improvements in graft survival, many patients will progress to graft loss and return to dialysis. Concerns exist regarding adverse clinical outcomes in this population when undergone peritoneal dialysis (PD).<h4>Objective</h4>To compare the occurrence of mortality, technique failure, and peritonitis among incident patients in PD coming from either Tx or pre-dialysis treatment.<h4>Methodology ...[more]