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Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Clinical utility of a traditional score system for the evaluation of the peritoneal dialysis exit-site infection in a national multicentric cohort study.

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2020 Aug 28


Perit Dial Int


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32856533?dopt=Abstract

Clinical utility of a traditional score system for the evaluation of the peritoneal dialysis exit-site infection in a national multicentric cohort study.

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Clinical utility of a traditional score system for the evaluation of the peritoneal dialysis exit-site infection in a national multicentric cohort study.
Rigo M, Pecoits-Filho R, Lambie M, Tuon F F, Barretti P, de Moraes T P
Perit Dial Int. 2020 Aug 28:896860820949032.
PMID: 32856533.

Abstract

Exit-site infection (ESI) is an important risk factor for peritonitis in patients under chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD). The International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) recommend its diagnosis as the presence of purulent drainage in the exit site (ES) but time-consuming scores using others skin signs are routinely used.
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