[Is clinical judgment a suitable method to select marginal allograft for transplantation? A single centre experience].

In order to deal with the organ shortage, the use of organs from marginal donors has emerged as an obvious option. The decision to accept a kidney from an expanded criteria donor is left to the transplantation centre. This study was carried out to evaluate whether clinical judgment is a suitable method to decline a kidney from a marginal donor.

[News in peritoneal dialysis].

Peritoneal dialysis, like hemodialysis, is a first-line therapy for patients with end-stage renal disease. Progress in medical devices and materials has reduced infectious complications such as peritonitis and catheter exit-site infections and thus decreased morbidity. Peritoneal dialysis fluids are increasingly biocompatible, result in fewer glucose degradation products, protect the peritoneal membrane better and thus improve tolerance.