%0 Journal Article
%T CAPD in Dammam Central Hospital, Saudi Arabia: A Five-Year Experience
%A Youmbissi Joseph
%A Malik Taher
%A Al Khursany Issam
%A Ghacha Reda
%J Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
%D 2001
%I Medknow Publications
%X Thirty-one patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) were offered continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) at the Dammam Central Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia over a period of five years. The group included 21 women and 10 men with a mean age of 41.3 ¡À 17.2 years. The main indication for CAPD was poor or failed vascular access (51.4%). Peritonitis remained the major complication with an overall incidence of 0.62 episode per patient year. Staphylococcus epidermidis was the main causative organism. Therapy with CAPD lasted a mean of 26 ¡À 7.4 months. Our results, showing good technique survival and low peritonitis rate, suggest that CAPD should be promoted to become a full arm of the integrated care of ESRD in Saudi Arabia.
%K CAPD
%K Saudi Arabia
%K Integrated care
%K Dammam
%U http://www.sjkdt.org/article.asp?issn=1319-2442;year=2001;volume=12;issue=4;spage=511;epage=515;aulast=Youmbissi