Dialysis at home a better option for kidney patients, but take-up remains low

Explore why peritoneal dialysis, a home-based treatment, offers a better quality of life for kidney failure patients despite ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

UC doctor studies which dialysis may work better at home

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - There is new research that could help those waiting for a kidney transplant. Dialysis is a process that filters the blood in those living with kidney disease because the kidneys ...
UC San Francisco

Brief Dialysis May Be Best for Some Kidney Patients

Patients with acute kidney injury requiring outpatient dialysis after hospital discharge receive the same care as those with the more common end-stage kidney disease, according to a study led by UC ...
Study Finds on MSN

New kidney treatments show promise, but results remain frustratingly mixed

In A Nutshell Advanced dialysis shows promise: New kidney treatment techniques achieved impressive results in some studies, with one method showing 71% kidney recovery rates in critically ill patients ...
Healio

Q&A: Alternative dialysis options help adults with ESKD stay employed

Employment rates for patients with end-stage kidney disease were higher for those with access to home hemodialysis or evening ...
STAT

She got off dialysis. Her doctor thinks others with acute kidney injury can too

SAN FRANCISCO — It was during some of the darkest days of the pandemic — November 2020 — when Melissa Lawson, then 36, was helicoptered from an emergency room in Santa Rosa, Calif., to a hospital here ...