Healthcare systems face challenges in meeting the growing demand for dialysis services due to critical gaps and shortcomings.

After a 2023 diagnosis of chronic kidney failure, a Port Richmond man was desperate to find a donor. In late 2024, a family ...

Switching to an in-house dialysis model may support health care facilities in care efforts and lead to high quality outcomes for patients, according to study data. Brittni McGill, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, ...

Abstracts featured at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meeting highlighted the renoprotective benefits of SGLT2 ...

Among the top three barriers to home dialysis, cited independently by both patients and clinicians, is the need for ...

Ms Grace Atieno lies on a hospital bed during a dialysis session at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital. A shortage of donor organs, legal restrictions and health limitations are ...

To address this knowledge gap, we conducted an analysis of the US Renal Data system (USRDS) to evaluate sex‐ and race‐related trends of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke among patients with ESKD with ...

Objectives: Sarcopenia is prevalent among individuals undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (MHD ... on samples from internal fistulas or catheters. Nutritional status, SMM, HGS, and GS were assessed at ...

Dialysis patients rely on vascular access—like fistulas or grafts—to filter ... after thrombectomy of hemodialysis vascular access, Kidney International (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.

Introduction: The dramatic hemodynamic disturbances induced by arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation are universally acknowledged ... was developed with clinical data collected from end-stage renal ...

Medicare covers dialysis and most treatments that involve end stage renal disease (ESRD) or kidney failure. When your kidneys no longer work naturally, your body enters into ESRD. Dialysis is a ...

This affects all parts of the body. The Western world accounts for 20 percent to 44 percent of renal replacement therapy in the world. In 2018 there were about 600 people on dialysis in The Bahamas ...