Peritoneal dialysis initiation in the U.S. rose significantly in health service areas previously classified as low-use areas, ...

In peritoneal dialysis, a permanent catheter is surgically placed, with one end in the abdominal cavity and the other on the outside to allow the dialysis fluid to flow into and out of the abdominal ...

Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis (PD) are the two main kidney replacement treatments; haemodialysis is done at centres, whereas PD is home-based. PD involves inserting fluid into the abdomen to ...

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) offers better quality of life than haemodialysis (HD), but fear and misunderstanding limit its adoption in Singapore, despite hospital education efforts. Kidney transplants ...

Women on peritoneal dialysis had significantly lower risks than men for mortality, transfers to hemodialysis and other kidney outcomes, according to study data published in the Clinical Journal of the ...

Over the past decade new solutions for peritoneal dialysis have been developed in an effort to reduce the bioincompatibility of conventional glucose-containing, lactate-buffered solutions, and thereby ...

A new international trial has delivered striking results for people on dialysis, showing that daily fish oil supplements can sharply reduce serious heart-related events. Patients taking fish oil had ...

Randomized, phase 3 study of second-line tislelizumab versus chemotherapy in advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, RATIONALE 302: Asia subgroup. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract ...