Long-term outcome of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) patients in a single center.

Background: Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is the most serious complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD) with a high mortality rate. The objective of the present study was to determine the clinical characteristics, the incidence rate, and the long-term outcome of EPS patients compared with control patients.

Methods: Two hundred and seventy patients with end-stage kidney disease were started on PD from 1987 to 2013 in the Juntendo University Hospital.

Campylobacter bacteremia in hemodialysis patients by eating raw meat - the importance of sanitary education.

In 2011, simultaneous, widespread outbreaks of food poisoning by contaminated enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli in beef, which killed four and hospitalized more than 30 people, occurred in Japan. While the press was widely reporting this disaster, two maintenance hemodialysis patients were suffering from Campylobacter bacteremia by eating undercooked meat. One patient was infected with C.