We found an association between overhydration and increased rates of peritonitis. While this may partly be due to the high co-morbidity of patients (advanced age and diabetes), on multivariate analysis, only inclusion of nutritional parameters reduced this association. It remains to be determined if overhydration will prove to be a modifiable risk factor for peritonitis or whether malnutrition will prove to be more important.

Death only occurred in the non-transplant renal group. Empirical antibiotic treatment with either piperacillin/tazobactam and amikacin, or meropenem was appropriate for renal transplant recipients as most bacteraemic episodes were secondary to graft pyelonephritis. Vancomycin and gentamicin was appropriate empirical antibiotic treatment for non-transplant patients with CVC associated infections, but not optimal for other sites of infection.

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