Peritoneal dialysis is now a well established, mature treatment modality for advanced chronic kidney disease. The medium term (at least 5 year) survival of patients on peritoneal dialysis is currently ...

People with kidney failure who do not choose conservative management and have not received a kidney transplant can undergo either hemodialysis, which is typically performed several times a week at a ...

Black and Latino patients are disproportionately affected by end-stage renal disease and face significant disparities in treatment, with underuse of peritoneal dialysis and higher conversion rates ...

My daughter, age 44, has had chronic kidney disease since she was 10 years old. She had a renal transplant at 23, then another at 32. The second graft started gradually failing a year back. In January ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Many patients saw peritoneal dialysis as beneficial vs. in-center treatment, but they also cited some drawbacks.

Uncertainty exists over whether hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis is the modality associated with better survival in patients with end-stage renal disease. Mehrotra and colleagues have shown that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Survival rates were similar in patients who choose home hemodialysis vs. peritoneal dialysis, even with ...

KIDNEY substitutes that are effective in the management of chronic renal failure are hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Scribner's technic for hemodialysis developed in 1958–59, 1 employing an ...

Good morning! This is Tanuzaishe 🦝💊How is everyone spending this long weekend? In the previous article, I talked about the basics of what dialysis treatment is.It was that one where, despite being a ...

Inflammation of the peritoneum (peritonitis) are as frequent as they are feared complications in peritoneal dialysis, a form of kidney replacement therapy for independent use at home. The bacteria ...

WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Fresenius Medical Care North America's (FMCNA) Renal Therapies Group announced today that DELFLEX ® peritoneal dialysis solutions in Biofine ®, an ...