I have a patient who was on PD for years and did well. Then got a living donor kidney transplant which has not worked. Can he go back to PD? Currently he is hemodialysis and the kidney was just put in 3/18/10. How do the immunosuppresive drugs affect PD?
I have a patient who was on PD for years and did well. Then got a living donor kidney transplant which has not worked. Can he go back to PD? Currently he is hemodialysis and the kidney was just put in 3/18/10. How do the immunosuppresive drugs affect PD?
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Debbie Wilson, Nurse from California asked
I have a patient who was on PD for years and did well. Then got a living donor kidney transplant which has not worked. Can he go back to PD? Currently he is hemodialysis and the kidney was just put in 3/18/10. How do the immunosuppresive drugs affect PD?

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⋅ ⋅ May 13, 2010

Yes, PD outcomes are not adversely affected by failed renal transplant. Please refer to the article:

Badve SV, Hawley CM, McDonald SP, Mudge DW, Rosman JB, Brown FG, Johnson DW. Effect of previously failed kidney transplantation on peritoneal dialysis outcomes in the Australian and New Zealand patient populations. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 21(3):776-83, 2006.

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