Ultrafiltration failure in long-term peritoneal dialysis patients is a well-known and important, but poorly-explained complication of the treatment. Transcapillary ultrafiltration consists mainly of small-pore fluid transport and partly of free-water transport. The former is to a large extent dependent on the hydrostatic pressure gradient and on the number of perfused peritoneal microvessels. Free-water transport depends mainly on the crystalloid osmotic gradient. A longitudinal analysis of peritoneal transport has shown a dramatic decrease of net ultrafiltration and small-pore fluid transport after 4 years of peritoneal dialysis. It will be argued that in contrast to common belief, a decrease of osmotically induced water transport cannot be the major contributor to long-term ultrafiltration failure. By exclusion of potential alternatives, the presence of vasculopathy in the peritoneal microcirculation is the most likely explanation. The resulting narrowing of vascular lumina will decrease the hydrostatic pressure gradient and thereby small-pore fluid transport and net ultrafiltration. Deposition of advanced glycosylation end products in peritoneal vessels may be important in the development of vasculopathy. This hypothesis is supported by morphological and functional results of dialysis with "biocompatible" solutions. .
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