Rising Peritoneal Dialysis Tide May Still Leave Some Patients Behind

There is a new era underway in the use of peritoneal dialysis (PD) for the treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States. After a longstanding decline in the use of PD, from 16.6% of incident patients with ESRD undergoing dialysis in 1984 to 6.0% in 2008,1,2 this trend has taken an increasingly well-documented about-face.3-7 Based on the most recent data from the US Renal Data System, PD was used by 9.8% of incident dialysis patients during 2015.5

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