[An analysis of the survival and death rate of patients on periodic hemolysis treatment at the Hemodialysis Center of the Medical Academy in 1971-1987]. 
For a period of 17 years a total of 377 patients have been on hemodialysis treatment--242 men (64.2 per cent) and 135 women (35.8 per cent).  During the first nine years the difference between men and women was significant (71.6 and 28.4 per cent respectively), in the next 8 years however it fell--accordingly 58.6 and 41.4 per cent.  The age of patients on intermittent dialysis program was significantly increased--from 37.43 years during the first period, to 46.56 years during the second.  Although almost all contraindications for dialysis treatment gradually dropped off, patient death rate has been constantly decreasing and in the last five years is steadily below 10 per cent.  Survival is increasing and for the last year averages 5 years.  The primary cause of death of patients on intermittent hemodialysis are cardiac complications--47.2 per cent of the decreased 176 patients.