Peritoneal dialysis in incident patients with primary glomerulonephritis. Results of a 20-year multicenter registry study.

Abstract Background and objectives Glomerulonephritis (GN) is one of the main causes of chronic terminal kidney disease; however, few studies assess its prognosis in dialysis. We analyze the survival and characteristics of patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) with primary GN (PGN), and compare their results with other kidney patients. Methods This prospective observational study took place from 1995 to 2014. We included all incident patients who were initiated on the technique in the Levante registry. Data were transferred to an anonymized database in Access. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software (version 19.0). Results The study included 2243 patients, with GN representing the main cause of primary kidney disease (21,5%). IgA nephropathy was the most frequent histologically confirmed form of PGN. Compared with the rest of the sample, patients with PGN were more often men (65% vs 58%, p = .004), and they were on average younger (48 years vs 55 years, p  Conclusions PD has several advantages as a first dialytic treatment, and our results suggest that it is an excellent technique to manage patients with PGN while they await a kidney transplant.