Table 1.

Clinical details of the 11 infants treated with dialysis

Case	Sex	Age (days)	Weight (kg)	Cause of renal failure	Prior ECMO	Reason for using haemodialysis and/ or PD	Haemodialysis		PD hourly dialysate flow
							Sessions	Hours	(ml/kg)
1	Male	3	1.8	ESRF, solitary MCD		Had colostomy for anal atresia	163	847	21
2	Female	58	3.3	ESRF, bilateral MCD		Fungal peritonitis with initial PD	11	66	28
3	Male	6	3.5	Post-cardiac surgery		RCT, but could not tolerate PD	5	75	20
4	Female	37	4.0	SVT causing ESRF	+	Had colostomy for NEC	158	1,236
5	Female	6	4.1	Meconium aspiration, PPHN	+	Had NEC with abdominal distension	5	85
6	Female	20	2.6	TBM and post-cardiac surgery	+	Open chest and high IPPV pressures	5	110
7	Female	6	2.4	Methyl-malonic acidaemia		PD inefficient for ammonia removal	4	12
8	Male	349	7.0	Post-cardiac surgery	+	Gut perforation with previous PD	1	24
9	Male	5	3.1	Complex heart disease		Gut resection for NEC	1	12
10	Male	27	4.0	Post-cardiac surgery	+	Started on PD and recovered promptly	0	0	20
11	Male	228	5.2	ESRF, renal dysplasia		Temporary PD failure	1	8	41
Totals							354	2,475

ECMO extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation, PD peritoneal dialysis, ESRF end-stage (permanent) kidney failure, MCD multicystic dysplastic kidney, RCT randomised controlled dialysis trial, SVT supra-ventricular tachycardia, PPHN persistent pulmonary hypertension, NEC necrotising enterocolitis, TBM tracheo-broncho-malacia requiring stenting, IPPV intermittent positive pressure ventilation