Continuous Peritoneal Dialysis

摘要: In 1976, the concept of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) was introduced by Popovich et al.. It defined as a novel portable/wearable equilibrium technique (1). Ironically, this new went unnoticed majority clinicians in spite its ingenious simplicity. The early clinical results reported two years later (2) attracted interest nephrology community. These validated theoretical assumptions behind principle CAPD. Then, for first time since beginning maintenance dialysis, real practical method dialytic therapy became available. As initially proposed, however, had major drawbacks: 1 ) technical burden associated with use fluid liter glass bottles which made difficult to use; and 2) high infection rate due frequent openings dialysate delivery circuit