PATIENTS undergoing peritoneal dialysis frequently require antibiotic therapy for intraperitoneal and systemic infections. Since information concerning transperitoneal movement of antibiotics is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Editor's note: After more than 20 years on in-center hemodialysis, Jennifer Castillo decided it was time to go ...

Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) provides an important treatment option that can improve survival for some patients with advanced peritoneal cancer. Managing this disease — and ...

Cancers originating from organs in the peritoneal cavity (e.g., ovarian, pancreatic, colorectal, gastric and liver) account for approximately 250,000 new cancer cases annually in the USA. Peritoneal ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. A 67-year-old man in relatively good health presented to ...

Endometriosis is a chronic multisystem inflammatory disease characterised by the presence of endometrial-like epithelium and ...

Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) of colorectal cancer (CRC) origin is associated with poor outcome. This systematic review evaluates the available evidence about adjuvant (hyperthermic) intraperitoneal ...

Metastatic colon cancer is generally considered incurable except for the setting of metastases that are isolated to the liver or lung and can be resected. During the last 20 years, there has been a ...

Uncertainty exists over whether hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis is the modality associated with better survival in patients with end-stage renal disease. Mehrotra and colleagues have shown that ...

Malignant mesotheliomas are common in people exposed to asbestos for a long time. Other risk factors include exposure to a metal called eronite, radiotherapy, infection with simian virus 40 and ...

Dedrick and colleagues presented the distributed model to describe drug penetration in the peritoneum, which is perfused by capillaries. [27–30] This model assumes drug transfer across ...