Drain Pain a Bane of Peritoneal Dialysis: Prevalence in a Cohort of Automated Peritoneal Dialysis Patients.

Abstract

Drain pain in peritoneal dialysis is a frequent occurrence that requires readjustment of catheter and some cases transfer to hemodialysis.

This study looks at the drain pain among patients on peritoneal dialysis at a tertiary care center.

73 patients on automated peritoneal dialysis were evaluated retrospectively for drain pain.  Male 47(64%) were males.  Total of 15 (20%) patients had drain pain.  The drain pain was both present in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis exchanges and automated peritoneal dialysis sessions.  All (100%) patients continued with APD.  No patient had to be transferred to hemodialysis because of drain pain.

Conclusion:

Occurrence of drain pain in our cohort of patients undergoing APD is similar to the reports in the literature.