Higher KT/V urea associated with greater protein catabolic rate and dietary protein intake in children treated with CCPD compared to CAPD. Mid-European Pediatric CPD Study Group (MPCS).

Being more suitable to children's lifestyle habits, continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis (CCPD) is becoming the treatment modality of first choice in the pediatric CPD population. In order to establish whether these regimens, prescribed on an empirical basis, provide an equally effective dialysis as does standard continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), we performed a cross-sectional analysis of dialysate and residual renal small molecule clearances in 85 children aged 3 months to 20 years, who were treated in 16 pediatric dialysis centers. Forty-three children were on CAPD and 42 were on CCPD. The two patient groups did not differ in age, body size, duration of dialysis, underlying disease distribution, or residual renal function. The CAPD patients achieved an average daily drain volume of 159 +/- 40 mL/kg body weight, as compared to 208 +/- 95 mL/kg in the CCPD group (p < 0.005). Average serum creatinine and BUN values were similar in both groups. While the (total) creatinine clearance did not differ, the KT/V urea was significantly higher in the patients treated with CCPD (0.35 +/- 0.12 vs 0.28 +/- 0.13, p < 0.05). The estimated protein catabolic rate (PCR) was significantly higher in the CCPD group (1.39 +/- 0.6 g/kg d) than in the CAPD patients (1.08 +/- 0.48 g/kg d, p < 0.05). Three-day dietary histories, available in 20 patients, showed a similar difference in dietary protein intake between CCPD and CAPD patients. We conclude that CCPD treatment regimens, at the dose currently prescribed in Mid-European pediatric dialysis centers, provide a higher clearance of urea and, possibly, other small molecules.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)