Abstract:In a dialysis population patients who had been treated merely with haemodialysis (HD) or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) were examined with ultrasound. The occurrence of multicystic transformation of the kidney was 4/15 in HD patients and 8/25 in CAPD patients with no significant difference between the two groups. There was a significant association between the occurrence of multicystic transformation and the patient age while there was no significant association to the duration of dialysis or… Show more
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