In an educational review published in the journal Pediatric Nephrology, clinicians at UC Davis and Oregon Health & Science University discuss an important procedure for children with advanced kidney ...

Elderly patients with kidney failure may not gain the same benefits from what's considered the gold standard for accessing the blood for dialysis compared with younger patients, according to a study ...

Hemodialysis is a procedure where excess fluids and waste products are filtered from the blood. It is done externally using a machine called a dialyzer. Millions of people in America have received a ...

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Overlook Medical Center, part of Atlantic Health System, has unveiled the WavelinQ, a device that offers a new, non-surgical way to prepare patients for dialysis. According to Overlook officials, it ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- People with kidney failure usually go to a center to get dialysis. But what if you could do it yourself? "At home you're flexible to do it whenever you want. Morning, afternoon, ...

Starting Dialysis when Kidney Function is High Increases Risk of Premature Death Recent guidelines that recommend that kidney disease patients start dialysis before their kidney function has ...

Meanwhile, from all analyzed in HD patients plasma samples cytokines, the only difference has been found in the concentration of IL-8 (Fig. 4F), which was significantly decreased after HD procedure ...

Hemodialysis (HD) provides life-saving treatment for kidney failure. Patient mortality is extremely high, with cardiovascular disease (CVD) being the leading cause of death. This results from both a ...