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Home and clinic dialysis offer similar results
January 17, 2011
Home-based dialysis was found to be as effective as clinic dialysis for those who have had a kidney transplant failure, based on a Canadian study.
Researchers from University of Toronto-affiliated St. Michael's Hospital reviewed the cases of more than 2,100 adults who had dialysis in both settings and determined that death rates are similar for the two groups. The findings are to be published in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
However, few patients in the U.S. and Canada utilize home-based dialysis. "I hope this research helps guide patients and the healthcare professionals treating them to make informed decisions, namely that peritoneal [home-based] dialysis is as effective a therapy as hemodialysis [clinic-based] in patients returning to dialysis after kidney transplant failure," said Dr. Jeffrey Perl of the university.
The Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension at both the North Shore University Hospital and the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, the research hospitals of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, have comprehensive medical services and research programs on both diabetic and polycystic kidney disease.
Researchers from University of Toronto-affiliated St. Michael's Hospital reviewed the cases of more than 2,100 adults who had dialysis in both settings and determined that death rates are similar for the two groups. The findings are to be published in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
However, few patients in the U.S. and Canada utilize home-based dialysis. "I hope this research helps guide patients and the healthcare professionals treating them to make informed decisions, namely that peritoneal [home-based] dialysis is as effective a therapy as hemodialysis [clinic-based] in patients returning to dialysis after kidney transplant failure," said Dr. Jeffrey Perl of the university.
The Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension at both the North Shore University Hospital and the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, the research hospitals of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, have comprehensive medical services and research programs on both diabetic and polycystic kidney disease.