Dec
11
2025
December 11, 2025
ISN-IPNA Webinar: Peritoneal dialysis in children with acute kidney injury in less well resourced settings – Experience from Ibadan, Nigeria
- 2 PM CET
Worldwide acute kidney injury (AKI) is common among children and may be more common in low resource settings. Common causes of AKI in Nigeria include malaria and sepsis. Challenges with the management of AKI in less well-resourced settings include the availability and cost of the Tenchkoff or Cooke peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheters and the availability and cost of commercial PD fluids. Paediatric nephrologists in low resource settings may have to resort to innovative ways to provide PD for children with AKI. We describe PD using adapted catheters in two children with AKI in a low-resourced setting.
Learning objectives:
- To describe range of adapted catheters that have been used to provide peritoneal dialysis for children with acute kidney injury at the University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria, West Africa
- To describe the challenges and survival outcomes with the use of adapted catheters in the provision of peritoneal dialysis for acute kidney injury in children
- To describe and compare PD catheters and peritoneal dialysis procedure and outcomes in children with AKI in a well-resourced setting
Further reading:
- Ademola AD, Asinobi AO, Ogunkunle OO, Yusuf BN, Ojo OE. Peritoneal dialysis in childhood acute kidney injury: experience in southwest Nigeria. Perit Dial Int. 2012;32(3):267-72.
- Grisaru S, Morgunov MA, Samuel SM, Midgley JP, Wade AW, Tee JB, et al. Acute renal replacement therapy in children with diarrhea-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome: a single center 16 years of experience. Int J Nephrol. 2011;2011:930539.
- Al Dhawi N, Midgley JP, Hamiwka LA, Wade AW, Banks A, Samuel SM, Grisaru S. Urgent-start peritoneal dialysis in a large pediatric STEC-HUS outbreak: Clinical and pathophysiological rationale. Manuscript in preparation
Moderator
Pepe Ekulu (Congo DR)
Speakers
Adebowale Ademola (Nigeria)
Adeola Abatan (Nigeria)
Andrew Wade (Canada)
Julian Midgley (Canada)