What do the Kidneys do? The kidneys work as a filtering unit for the blood in our bodies and help in excreting waste products from the blood stream. The kidney filters out waste products from the ...

Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), who have to go on maintenance dialysis to extend their survival, have the option of hospital-based haemodialysis (HD) or home-based continuous ambulatory ...

Quality of life is similar between patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing hemodialysis and those having continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) in the hospital. There is no ...

In 2008, an estimated 1.77 million patients worldwide received dialysis. Of these patients, 1.58 million were treated with hemodialysis and approximately 190,000 received peritoneal dialyisis. In a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Dialysis is a relatively high-cost treatment, with previous commentators estimating that the U.K. [National ...

Fresenius Medical Care, the world's leading provider of products and services for individuals with renal diseases, today announced the global launch of kinexus, a unified digital platform designed to ...

What is Peritoneal Dialysis? When your kidneys can no longer adequately remove waste products from your blood, then the procedure of peritoneal dialysis is used. PD or peritoneal dialysis is a therapy ...

CUTTACK: Unavailability of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) fluid, essential for dialysis procedure, at SCB medical college and hospital has posed a huge problem for kidney patients ...

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a type of dialysis that removes waste and excess fluid from the body via blood vessels in the peritoneum, a membrane that lines the inner abdominal wall. This abdominal ...