Total body water reduction in subjects with chronic kidney disease on peritoneal dialysis is associated with a better hypertension control.

Introduction: Hypertension is highly prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease and hypervolemia is one of the principal causes.

Objective: To evaluate the influence of the reduction of volemia on blood pressure as well as on echocardiographic parameters in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.

Methods: Twelve patients with no clinical evidence of hypervolemia were submitted to an increase in the rate of the dialysis with the purpose of reducing body weight by 5%.

Salmonella peritonitis in a patient on automated peritoneal dialysis.

We describe the clinical course of a case of peritonitis caused by Salmonella sp. after an episode of intestinal salmonellosis, and a brief review of the literature is also done.

[APACHE II and ATN-ISS in acute renal failure (ARF) in intensive care unit (ICU) and non-ICU].

Introduction: Acute renal failure (ARF) remains highly prevalent with a high rate of morbidity and mortality.

Objective: of this study was to compare use of the APACHE II scoring prognosis with that of the ATN-ISS to determine whether the APACHE II could be used for patients with ARF outside the ICU.

Methods: For this purpose, 205 patients with ARF were accompanied in a prospective cohort.