Table 2.

Events and causes per group within 90 days of dialysis therapy^*.

	Urgent-	Early-	Conventional-
	start	start	start
Causes of death	% (n = 5)	% (n = 5)	% (n = 2)
Cardiovascular	40 (2)	40 (2)	50 (1)
Pulmonary edema	20 (1)	–	–
Peritonitis	20 (1)	20 (1)	–
Sepsis not related to PD	–	40 (2)	50 (1)
Other causes	20 (1)	–	–
Causes of technique failure	% (n = 6)	(n = 4)	(n = 3)
Ultrafiltration failure	–	50 (2)	67 (2)
Peritonitis	67 (4)	–	–
Others	–	25 (1)	–
Catheter dysfunction	33 (2)	25 (1)	33 (1)
Exit-site infection	–	–	–

^*The time at risk for the three groups was 469.5, 410.0, and 513.8 months, respectively.