Renal Association Clinical Practice Guideline on Peritoneal Dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is long established as a major option for renal replacement therapy in patients with end-stage renal disease. It is an important part of an integrated service for renal replacement therapy that is frequently selected by patients as their preferred initial mode of therapy and is a therapeutic option for patients wishing or needing to swap from HD and after renal transplant failure. This guideline is an update of the PD module published on-line on the Renal Association website, www.renal.org in 2007. The English language literature was searched to identify relevant articles on PD published between 2006 and 2010 including: . Medline search using ‘peritoneal dialysis’ combined with relevant terms . Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews . Review of other national/international PD clinical guidelines . Identification of further articles quoted in identified papers