Home Dialysis News

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.

Barriers to widespread peritoneal dialysis use in the United States include misaligned incentives, varying data, temporary transitioning costs and more, according to a review published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

For the first time in its history, the U.S. Renal Data System Annual Data Report included a chapter devoted to home dialysis, offering an unprecedented view of the evolution of home therapies during the past decade.

There is no one-size-fits-all treatment plan for chronic kidney disease.

In the United States, the annual rate of growth in incident patients with end-stage kidney disease has slowed.