Before receiving her transplant from a living donor, LaQuayia "LQ" Goldring spent up to four and a half hours a day hooked up ...

For home dialysis to work, patients need to have at least some kidney function left. Otherwise, hemodialysis, which directly filters the blood and is complex to deliver at home, may be a more ...

What happens when a remote island community must build its own dialysis unit to keep families together? In Galiwin’ku, a ...

When Denise Atkinson and her husband Mike wanted to take a cruise to the Bahamas last January, they knew they could only do it if Cindy came along. But that wasn’t a major problem – after all ...

The current alternative is to use a home-based self-care modality, either home hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. These home-based self-care modalities have been shown to .

Home hemodialysis was further associated with a 22% lower risk for cardiovascular death (HR, 0.78) and an 8% lower risk for all-cause death (HR, 0.92) than peritoneal dialysis, ...

Patients say they prefer home dialysis, but data is minimal. Sept. 20, 2012— -- Vanessa Evans spent 10 years driving to and from a dialysis clinic three days a week to spend four hours in a ...

Dialysis Facility Report data showed utilization of home dialysis increased from 11.9% at the end of 2017 to 12.5% at the end of 2018 and to 13.4% at the end of 2019 — interestingly, without a ...

Can kidney dialysis be done at home? We can make treatment more accessible, so why aren't we? We are a nephrologist and a patient now living with a kidney transplant, working together to try to ...

Home hemodialysis is similar to treatments done in the clinic--patients use a machine to remove blood from the body, pass it through an external filter, and return the cleaned blood to the body.

Bermuda Home Dialysis Services [BHDS] has been accredited by the National Dialysis Accreditation Commission [NDAC]. A ...

Home nocturnal hemodialysis is more cost-effective and is associated with a better quality of life than conventional hemodialysis, according to a new decision analysis comparing the two strategies ...