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Abstract
Over the past quarter of century, there have been considerable vances in continuous peritoneal dialysis resulting in dramatic pprovements in outcomes of patients, in terms of survival and quality of However, CAPD in some developing countries as Egypt, slill has limited use. Problems in starting a CAPD programme include lack of rareness and information about the benefits and ease of CAPD amongst lay public. Also the denied acceptance of the potential advantages of ?D by the nephrologists is an import at factor. Past experience with sctious complications, are the main drawbacks of PD that perhaps do not icourage nephrologists in the developing countries to choose this mode of atment. Hence, it was aimed to study the course and outcome of patients jintained on a CAPD programme in our country. For this purpose, forty patients for an average of 11/2 years on CAPD, ere investigated to assess the success or the demerits of the programme in t. They were divided into two groups according to their positivity for Cpatitis C. Only 22.5% were hepatitis C positive by PCR compared to the ported prevalence of 70% among haemodialysis centers in Egypt. Further viral load was found to be low in these patients probably implying a sser impact of hepatitis C on the illness & future outcome of these atients.