Korean Journal of Nephrology 1988;7(2):280-285.

우리나라 투석요법의 현황

방병기 , 윤영석 , 이정상 , 한대석 , 이호영 , 김형규 , 박한철 , 강종명 , 김명재 , 이희발 , 류석희 , 윤견일 , 고행일 , 오하영 , 유병희 , 정영 , 정석호 , 나하연 , 이시래 , 김기현 , 원대식 , 전건웅 , 조동규 , 윤경우 , 김현철 , 최일균 , 강영준 , 채종구 , 임중

Abstract

Since 1981, the Korean Society of Nephrology started annual report on renal replacement therapy in Korea. The annual number of new patients receiving dialysis treatment in 1986, compared with 1985, rose from 825 patients (20.4 per million population) to 957 patitents (23. 3 per million population) and the total number of patients on replacement therapy rose from 1,508 patients (37.3 per million population) to 2,534 patients (61.7 per million population). 1,335 patients (32.6 per million population) of these patients were living on hemodialysis, 573 patients (13.9 per million population) on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and 621 patients (15.1 per million population) on fun- ctioning renal graft as of December 31, 1986 The common causes of renal failure of new patients were chronic glomerulonephritis (41,6%), followed by diabetic nephropathy (12.6%), hypertensive nephroscler- osis (7.8%), chronic pyelonephritis (2.5%) and others. The annual mortality rate fell from 21.9% in 1981 to 13. 5% in 1986. The common causes of death in patients on dialysis therapy in order were cardiac (32.8%), vascular (14.7%), infective (14.7%) social problems (11.2%). Recently, the number of patients requiring dialysis is rapidly increasing due to expanded medical insurance support for dialysis and improved economic status of our country. Therefore, it is necessary to draw up counterplan for a rapid growth of the number of new patients.