Table 1.

Patient characteristics at baseline

Patient characteristics	All patients (n = 13)	Peritoneal dialysis (n = 8 patients)	Haemodialysis (n = 5 patients)
Age (years)	4.0 (0.8–14.0)	2.0 (0.8–8.5)	6.0 (4.1–14.0)
Male gender	10 (77)	7 (87)	3 (60)
Duration of renal replacement therapy (months)	8.9 (1.3–41.4)	11.8 (1.3–41.4)	7.9 (4.0–11.5)
Residual urine output (good/oliguric/anuric)	7/4/2	3/3/2	4/1/0
Physical signs or symptoms of overt fluid overload	0	1 (12.5)	0
Hypertension requiring antihypertensive drugs:	5 (38)	3 (37.5)	2 (40)
Beta blocker	3 (23)	2 (25)	1 (20)
Alpha blocker	1 (8)	1 (12.5)	0
Calcium channel antagonist	4 (31)	4 (50)	0
Centrally acting	1 (8)	1 (12.5)	0

Data are presented as the median with the range in parenthesis or as the number of patients with the percentage in parenthesis, as appropriate

Baseline data were recorded at the time of entry to the study