When Is Peritoneal Dialysis Used?
Peritoneal Dialysis Is a Treatment for Kidney Failure That Uses the Lining of Your Abdomen, or Belly, to Filter Your Blood Inside Your Body. Health Care...
Peritoneal dialysis is a treatment for kidney failure that uses the lining of your abdomen, or belly, to filter your blood inside your body. Health care providers call this lining the peritoneum. A few weeks before you start peritoneal dialysis, a surgeon places a soft tube, called a catheter, in your belly.
What are the indications for peritoneal dialysis?
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- Refractory congestive heart failure.
- Hepatic failure.
- Hypothermia.
- Hyperthermia.
- Hyponatremia.
- Dialysis-associated ascites.
- Drug poisonings.
- Pancreatitis.
Why is peritoneal dialysis needed?
Why do I need peritoneal dialysis? You need treatment because your kidneys no longer clean enough wastes from your blood and remove extra fluid from your body. Even though people with kidney failure may still have some kidney function, it's not enough and without treatment you will die.
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