CONCLUSION: Our results demonstrate that cfDNA increases in peritoneal effluent of PD patients with peritonitis and tends to progressively decline in step with peritonitis resolution and membrane repair process. Peritoneal cfDNA quantification could be an innovative method to determine acute damage and an inverse index of the repair process.
PMID: 26012380 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)