Publications by authors named "M E Ullian"
Background: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a commonly used form of renal replacement therapy for patients that have reached end-stage renal disease. Acute bacterial peritonitis (ABP) in chronic PD patients results in pain, increased costs, injury to the peritoneal membrane, and PD modality failure. Optimal antibiotic treatment of acute bacterial peritonitis (ABP) in chronic PD patients should be intraperitoneal, outpatient-based, appropriate, prompt, and uninterrupted.
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- Chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients commonly experience low potassium levels (hypokalemia), but hyperkalemia (high potassium levels) is also a concern, occurring in 14% of serum samples from a study of 33 patients over varying durations of PD.
- The study found that hyperkalemia was mostly mild, yet some cases were extreme, and its occurrence did not significantly change over the years on PD.
- Factors leading to hyperkalemia in PD patients could include dietary intake of potassium, noncompliance with dialysis, increased muscle mass, shifts in potassium levels, and periods without dialysis.