Dialysis

handout Tendai and Crispen welcomed son Zayn into the world in January. When Tendai Chisambara was told that she needed to undergo dialysis for her chronic kidney disease, she was …

ST. ALBANS — The fate of a St. Albans dialysis clinic is up in the air. Due to budget cuts, the University of Vermont Medical Center is considering outsourcing its …

ASHTABULA COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) – Dialysis patients across Northeast Ohio are having trouble getting to their appointments. Piles of snow make movement difficult and almost impossible to dig out without …

During World War II, Dr. Willem Kolff revolutionized medicine by creating the first “artificial kidney” from everyday objects such as juice cans, sausage casings, and old washing machine parts. This …

This multicenter prospective cohort study is the first to investigate the association between different initial PD regimens and clinical and patient-reported outcomes in Japanese PD patients. No significant differences were …

More than 550,000 Americans with kidney failure (about 14,000 of them in Louisiana) rely on dialysis, the only treatment other than a kidney transplant, to survive. Unfortunately, many Americans with …

(HealthDay News) — Hypertension is the most common cause of death among dialysis patients worldwide, according to a study presented at Kidney Week, the American Society of Nephrology's annual meeting, …

Photo: Morsa Images/Getty Images A series of final rules issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services include updates to payment rates and policies based on end-stage renal disease …

Livingston County News WCCHS to close Mount Morris Dialysis Clinic MOUNT MORRIS — Wyoming County Community Health System will close its Mount Morris Dialysis Clinic, WCCHS CEO David Kobis announced.

Kaplan-Meier unadjusted survival estimates by gender (male and female) after onset of end-stage renal disease (A) all-cause mortality, (B) cardiovascular mortality. credit: American Heart Association Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.123.029691 A …