“…The results confirm that PD can be a safe method of introducing RRT in unplanned acute dialysis settings. In general they are comparable with those of other authors, presented in Table 9 (Song et al, 2000; Banli et al, 2005; Povlsen and Ivarsen, 2006; Jo et al, 2007; Lobbedez et al, 2008; Yang et al, 2011; Casaretto et al, 2012; Ghaffari, 2012; Koch et al, 2012; Masseur et al, 2014; Alkatheeri et al, 2016; Bitencourt Dias et al 2016, 2017; Jin et al, 2016; Pai et al, 2016; Wong et al, 2016; Xu et al, 2017; Wang et al, 2017; Nayak et al, 2018). However, there are many methodological differences among these studies concerning patients population, the technique of peritoneal catheter placement, or length of break-in period.…”