It was a poignant moment when Stefan Whelan from Newbawn, Co Wexford, got into the sea at Baginbun on Sunday, May 4. Stefan along with 35 others sea swam one kilometre at Baginbun Beach, to highlight ...

A shared decision-making intervention resulted in a significantly lower incidence of unplanned dialysis versus usual care in ...

As a dialysis technician, I work closely with a team of doctors, nurses, social workers and dietitians to provide specialized ...

Anthony Davis, president of Livingstone College in Salisbury, talks about his decision to announce that he needs a kidney ...

Dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (DD-CKD), a severe form of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), currently affects more than three million patients ...

LAS VEGAS — Education and training can encourage home dialysis uptake for pediatric patients and enable more successful ...

Another option is frozen fruits like grapes and blueberries. Your dry weight is what you weigh without the excess fluid. You can usually get this number after a session of dialysis. Generally, doctors ...

During this dwell time, waste products and excess fluids pass from the blood into the dialysis solution. The fluid is then drained and replaced with fresh solution, repeating the cycle.

Instead of a dialyzer, peritoneal dialysis uses the lining of your abdomen ... The filtering process involves passing a sterile cleansing fluid into the catheter over 30 to 40 minutes.

Despite considerable advances in diagnostics, an early and differential diagnosis of PD still represents a major challenge. We innovated the immuno-infrared sensor (iRS) platform for measuring αSyn ...

removes excess fluid and uremic toxins (Himmelfarb et al., 2020). In 2022, the Chinese National Renal Data System included 985,000 patients on dialysis in China, with 844,000 on hemodialysis (85.7%) ...