Peritoneal Structure and Changes as a Dialysis Membrane After Peritoneal Dialysis

Abstract

In this chapter, the purpose of the authors and editors is to review and concentrate the incomparable information included in the 3rd edition of this Textbook by L. Gotloib, maintaining the most significant messages relative to mesothelial cell role in the peritoneal membrane. For more profound knowledge in this particular field, the reader is referred to the complete chapter published in the 3rd edition of this Textbook, as Gotloib as the sole author. Our contribution will be to specifically add the changes that the structure of the membrane suffers during peritoneal dialysis treatment in each of its components, including the epithelial- to-mesenchymal transition of mesothelial cells, angiogenesis/vasculopathy and interstitial fibrosis/sclerosis, as well as the connections between these processes, to give the clinician an active view of all these components and their relationship with functional changes.