• Ir J Med Sci · Nov 2021

    Progressive survival improvement of incident dialysis patients in a tertiary center, Ireland.

    • Elhussein A E Elhassan, Sinead Stoneman, Patrick O'Kelly, Veronica Francis, Mark Denton, Colm Magee, Declan G de Freitas, Conall M O'Seaghdha, John Donohoe, and Peter J Conlon.
    • Department of Nephrology & Transplantation, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. elhusseinelhassan@hotmail.com.
    • Ir J Med Sci. 2021 Nov 1; 190 (4): 1597-1603.

    BackgroundThe survival of incident dialysis patients' end-stage kidney disease in some European and American has been reported to improve in modern era compared to earlier periods. However, in Ireland, this has not been well documented.AimTo investigate the survival outcomes of incident end-stage kidney failure dialysis patients in a tertiary center over a 24-year period, 1993-2017.MethodsA retrospective analysis was carried out utilizing the Beaumont Hospital Renal Database. Consecutive adults with incident dialysis were analyzed. Kaplan-Meier methods and the estimated mean survival times were used to evaluate survival at successive 4-year periods of time.ResultsIn total, 2106 patients were included, of whom 830 underwent subsequent renal transplantation during follow-up. During the study period, from 1993 up to 2017, the mean patients' age increased from 56.3 ± 17.4 in 1993-1996 to 60.6 ± 18.3 in 2014-2017. There was an overall decrement in mortality over successive time intervals which were mirrored by the improvements in median survival after commencement of dialysis treatment from 6.14 years during 1993-1996 to 8.01 years during 2009-2012. Patients' survival has steadily improved, with the 5-year survival has risen over time, by almost 15%. This positive signal persisted and became more pronounced after adjusting Kaplan-Meier curve to age, where the 5-year survival estimates were exceeding 80% in 2014-2017.ConclusionSurvival rates among incident dialysis patients have improved progressively between 1993 and 2017 in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. The factors which led to this improvement are not entirely clear, but likely to be multifactorial.© 2020. Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland.

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