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Of the 2,828 patients reported in 1997 from the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study (NAPRTCS) dialysis data base, 1326 or 46.9% are over the age of thirteen. Fifty-four percent or 729 of these adolescents are being treated with some form of peritoneal dialysis. Although, these 729 patients represent 26% of the entire (NAPRTCS) data base and therefore presumable a similar percent of the entire pediatric dialysis population, few studies of this specific patient group have been undertaken.(1)
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Kohaut, E. (1998). Peritoneal Dialysis in Adolescents. In: Fine, R.N., Alexander, S.R., Warady, B.A. (eds) CAPD/CCPD in Children. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4931-4_33
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