Self-care peritoneal dialysis patients with cognitive impairment have a higher risk of peritonitis in the second year.

CONCLUSIONS: In summary, increasing age, female sex, anemia, and presence of PVD are risk factors for cognitive impairment in PD patients. Self-care PD with cognitive impairment at 1 year has a higher risk for PD-related peritonitis in the second year. Interval HK-MoCA assessment is recommended to detect cognitive impairment in our local PD patients. PMID: 30087176 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Peritoneal Dialysis International - Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Perit Dial Int Source Type: research