Peritoneal dialysis in the era of COVID-19: experience of a Tunisian center.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the health landscape by hampering the management of patients with chronic diseases. Providing optimal healthcare has become a critical issue, especially for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) receiving in-center dialysis. Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) has the advantage of being a home-based therapy. Several papers about COVID-19 in the chronic kidney disease (CKD) population have been published, but few studies focused on the PD population, with limited case series. In this paper, we share our strategy for managing PD patients during the pandemic and describe the characteristics of 24 episodes of COVID-19 that occurred in our PD patients. Also, we report the impact of the pandemic on different outcomes and discuss the challenges of renal replaceme

SUBMITTER: Badrouchi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9341419 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature