High-dose hemodiafiltration (HDF) produced substantially better survival compared with conventional, high-flux hemodialysis in people with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) in CONVINCE, a randomized ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The buttonhole technique for vascular access is safe for home hemodialysis as long as patients are diligent about skin preparation and cannulation, clinicians from Fresenius ...

Peden believes this new technique will benefit many of the nearly 470,000 people in the United States that go through dialysis treatment two to three times a week.

Baseline dialysis technique was considered to be that used 4 weeks after recruitment. Conversion to another dialysis modality was defined as a technique switch if patients remained on the new ...

PLATTSBURGH — Harry Stafford has been undergoing regular dialysis treatments at the H.K. Freedman Renal Center for the past three years, but that will soon change.

Expanded hemodialysis as effective alternative to on-line hemodiafiltration: A randomized mid-term clinical trial. Ther Apher Dial. 2022;26 (1):37-44.

Of more than 661,000 Americans with kidney failure, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 468,000 are on dialysis, a method of filtering waste from the ...

Cumulative incidence of technique failure for daily home hemodialysis vs. peritoneal dialysis patients in the study was 9.1% vs. 17.3% at six months; 17.9% vs. 27.3% at one year; 27.5% vs. 37.5% ...

Peden believes this new technique will benefit many of the nearly 470,000 people in the United States that go through dialysis treatment two to three times a week.

The number of treatments during the past five years averaged 12,950 a year and is expected to grow. Of these, nearly 4,800 (37%) treatments are performed in the specialized in-hospital dialysis ...

A treatment using a patient’s own stem cells could rejuvenate ailing kidneys without dialysis, transplantation or immune rejection. That is the conclusion of a groundbreaking Israeli study recently ...

Because CRRT is a complicated therapy, more so than regular dialysis, it is only available at hospitals that have the expertise to provide it. It requires specialized physician knowledge and special ...