The #PDExchange Podcast
Episodes
Teaching Peritoneal Dialysis – A Position Paper for the ISPD (2025 Update)
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast: PD Exchange Podcast Hosts: Dr. Nikhil Shah (University of Alberta), Dr. Jeff Perl (St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto) Guests: Dr. Josephine...
Exercise and PD - Not a healthy "hobby", its medical treatment!!
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Exercise and Peritoneal Dialysis: Enhancing Patient Quality of LifeIn this episode of the PD Exchange, hosts Dr. Nikhil Shah and Dr. Jeff Perl discuss...
International Women's Day - Celebrating Women in PD - Part 2
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating Women in Peritoneal DialysisIn this special episode of the PD Exchange, hosts Dr. Nikhil Shah and Dr. Jeff Perl celebrate International Wo...
Women in PD: Venus envy? Celebrating Women in Peritoneal Dialysis: Inspiring Careers in PD
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Women in PD: Venus envy?Celebrating Women in Peritoneal Dialysis: Inspiring Careers in PD In this special episode of the PD Exchange podcast, hosts D...
The ELIXIR Trial and Xylocore Solution: Exploring the Future of Peritoneal Dialysis
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the first PD Exchange podcast episode of 2025, Dr. Nikhil Shah and Dr. Jeff Perl introduce a groundbreaking topic—the ELIXIR trial to evaluate Xy...
Guideline for Pediatric Peritoneal Dialysis Associated Infections 2024
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of the PD Exchange with your host Dr Nikhil Shah and your co-host Dr Jeff Perl. Today, we discuss the newly released Clini...
ISPD Assisted PD Position Paper Discussion
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drs Jeff Perl and Nikhil Shah discuss the latest ISPD position paper on Assisted PD with Drs Matthew Oliver (Toronto, Canada), Thierry Lobbedez (Caen,...
#NephMadness and the Peritoneal Dialysis : Cage match!
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drs Jeff Perl (@PD_Perls) and Nikhil Shah(@dr_nikhilshah), are joined by the creator of NephMadness Dr Matthew Sparks (@NephroSparks) and Nephrology f...
Clucking Success: Discussing the Japanese experience in PD catheter placement with Dr Crabtree and Dr Oliver
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drs Jeff Perl and Nikhil Shah chat with PD Access royalty Dr. John Crabtree and Dr. Matthew Oliver. They discuss the recent publication in PD Intern...
Incremental PD: Personalized PD! Standard of Care, or more data to prepare?
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drs Jeff Perl and Nikhil Shah, welcome you to the 8th episode of PD Exchange. (on a side note - we now have >1000 plays and are listed by FEEDSPOT...
PDI July 2023 eTOC and Abstracts Podcast
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Peritoneal Dialysis International Abstract Podcast. Here, we are trying to bring the Table of Contents and the Abstracts from the m...
Exits and Tunnels - The ISPD Catheter-related Infection Recommendations: 2023 Update
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Your hosts Nikhil and Jeff discuss the PD catheter-related infection recommendations with Prof KM Chow and Prof David Johnson the lead authors for the...
An apple a day keeps the glucose away? Drs Oberg and Fraser discuss role of Phloretin, SGLT2/1i and GLUT in peritoneal membrane
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drs Oberg and Fraser along with Drs Perl and Shah discuss the exciting experiments regarding Phloretin (a GLUT blocker derived from apples!) and Phlor...
Acute PD for AKI during Covid in the Big Apple: Big insights.
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Outcomes of PD for AKI treatment during COVID-19 in New York City: A multicenter study Drs Maryann Sourial and Wei Chen discuss their experience of st...
Establishing a core outcome measure for life participation in patients receiving peritoneal dialysis: A SONG-PD consensus workshop report.
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Karine Manera (@KarineManera), Associate Editor for Peritoneal Dialysis International (@PDI_Journal) and patient partner Annette Spence join the #PDEx...
Editorial vision and Selected #EditorsChoice PDI Papers 2021 - 2022 Part 1 with PDI Deputy Editor in Chief Dr Yeoungjee Cho
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
PDExchange 002 Episode Details At the start, Dr. Jeff Perl the Editor in Chief and Dr. Yeoungjee Cho, the Deputy Editor in Chief for Peritoneal ...
The availability of support and peritoneal dialysis survival: A cohort study. Danielle Fox et al
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Abstract Background: Providing support is important to maintain a patient on peritoneal dialysis (PD), though its impact on outcomes has not been inve...