Home Dialysis News

The American Heart Association has published a statement supporting the use of home dialysis over in-center dialysis for patients with kidney and cardiovascular disease.

Between 2008 and 2015, overall average Medicare expenditures were 11% more for in-center hemodialysis than home-based peritoneal dialysis.

A lengthy review by the FDA of 510(k)-related updates to Outset Medical’s Tablo home dialysis machine has halted shipments to dialysis providers, hurting company earnings and sparking shareholder lawsuits.

Racial and ethnic disparities in kidney replacement therapies were most pronounced among patients aged 22 to 44 years who are either transplant recipients or on home dialysis, according to data in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Compared with patients who had urgent-start temporary hemodialysis, patients who underwent urgent-start peritoneal dialysis during the transition of kidney failure to chronic dialysis showed fewer complications up to 6 weeks after dialysis.

A workshop of health professionals, patients and caregivers recommended that a core outcome measure for peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis should include symptom-based and laboratory-based criteria.

In 2020, Portland, Maine nephrologist Paul Parker, MD, was getting ready to retire as a medical director of Fresenius Medical Care.

Fresenius Medical Care North America announced the FDA has awarded 510(k) clearance to its VersiPD cycler.

BOSTON — In this video from the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, Eric D. Weinhandl, PhD, MS, talks about the hidden costs in helping patients transition from peritoneal dialysis to home hemodialysis.

BOSTON — Language barriers to educational materials are an issue patients self-identified as “Hispanic/Latinx” face when considering home dialysis, according to a study presented at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.