Kerala has emerged as a model State in dialysis care, conducting over 64,000 dialysis procedures every month, following a major expansion of treatment facilities for kidney patients across the State.

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infection rates stayed within International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis guideline thresholds during the ...

The global prevalence of chronic kidney disease has increased significantly as a consequence of factors such as aging of the population, lifestyle changes, and improved treatment of comorbid ...

1 Department of Nephrology, Santa Maggiori Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2 Nefrostar Nephrology Clinic, OSACO, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) is less common among elderly patients, with ...

Dialysis is typically performed in a hospital or clinical dialysis center, where a patient’s blood is drawn through an access point, filtered through a dialysis machine, and then returned to the body.

The Acute Dialysis and Pheresis Therapies (ADAPT) Program has grown from nine nurses to 12. Ann and Robert H. Lurie Chicago Children’s Hospital’s fully hospital-owned and -operated ADAPT program ...

With the incidence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) steadily increasing across the world, dialysis is a literal life-sustaining measure for millions of people. Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis are ...

The authors observed a significant increase in optimal starts for dialysis and in peritoneal dialysis rates after implementing a standardized end-stage renal disease transition pathway. Objective: To ...

Hurricane Helene is gone, but its ripple effects continue all across the U.S., with tens of thousands of dialysis patients now at risk of losing access to lifesaving care due to a shocked supply chain ...

HOLLAND — When Hurricane Helene tore through western North Carolina in late September, flooding forced the closure of Baxter International's North Cove manufacturing facility and triggered what could ...