Indian Journal of Peritoneal Dialysis 1 INDIAN JOURNAL OF PERITONEAL DIALYSIS The Official Journal of the Peritoneal Dialysis Society of India President: Arup Dutta Secretary: Narayan Prasad Past Presidents: Georgi Abraham, DS Rana, KS Nayak, Amit Gupta, KC Prakash For Membership information contact: Narayan Prasad, Department of Nephrology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India, Pin code - 226014. Email: narayan@sgpgi.ac.in Emeritus Editor: Amit Gupta EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Georgi Abraham Madras Medical Mission Hospital Phone: 91 44 2656 5991 Email: abraham_georgi@yahoo.com DEPUTY EDITOR K.Sampath Kumar, Madurai ASSOCIATE EDITORS Sudarsan Ballal, Manipal, Sairam VK, Chennai (Paediatrics), Rajeev A Annigeri, Chennai, N. Sharatkumar Singh, Imphal, R.K. Sharma, Lucknow, K.S.Nayak, Hyderabad, Gokulnath, Bangalore ASSISTANT EDITORS Milly Mathew, Chennai Thiagarajan Thandavan, Chennai EDITORIAL BOARD Arup Dutta, Kolkatta Oreopoulos DG, Toronto AI Rukhaimi M, Dubai Balasubramaniam R, Coimbatore Reza Khatami M, Tehran Samad A, Dhaka Dakshnamurthy KV, Hyderabad Lameire N, Ghent Piraino B, Pittsburgh Georgy Nainan, Kochi Das Gupta M, Edmonton Khanna R, Columbia Prasad KN, Lucknow Davies S, Stafforodshire Wang T, Beijing Pankaj R Shah, Ahmedabad Dombros N, Thessalonikki Kaffle RK, Kathmandu Phadke K, Bangalore Rezvi Sherif , Colombo Johny KV, Kuwait Poulose Thomas, Vellore Khan SJ, Islamabad Evan Lee, Singapore Krishna G Seshadri, Chennai Hideki Kawanishi, Hiroshima Cengiz Utas, Turkey Ramalakshmi S, Chennai Brian Pereira J, Boston Das Gupta M, Edmonton Sunil Shroff, Chennai Blake P, London Weisgarten J, Tel Aviv Suresh Sankarasubbaiyan, Chennai Bargman JM, Toronto Husam Al-Saffar,Baghdad Uma Sekar, Chennai Prichard S, Montreal Sriram K, Chicago Urmila Anandh, Mumbai Kredit RT, Amsterdam Li. PKT, Hong Kong Sandeep Mahajan, New Delhi Breborowicz A, Poznan Pecoits-Filho R, Curitiba Vivekananada Jha, Chandigarh Lo WK, Hong Kong Faissal AM Shaheen, Riyadh Jayakumar M, Chennai SAJ Naqvi, Karachi SanjeevSharma, Nepal Gulati S, New Delhi Agarwal M, Winston Salem Bengt Lindholm, Stockholm, Jacob George, Trivandrum Barkart JM, Winston Salem Kamal Sud, Sydney Mehorata R, California