Aug. 17—SELINSGROVE — Learning how to receive dialysis at home under her own ... "I do it at night while I sleep," said the Selinsgrove resident who has even traveled with the portable machine.

When you think of someone whose kidneys are failing, you probably don't picture Joshua Nidle or Susan Blais. Nidle bowls and plays basketball. Blais travels, works and jumps on zip-lines whenever ...

A home hemodialysis machine developed by Manchester—based DEKA Research & Development will be tested in a clinical trial involving a kidney care company based in Austin, Texas. The nonprofit Satellite ...

The less known dialysis method. There are two types of dialysis: hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. In hemodialysis, a machine removes the blood from a needle in the arm, filters it and returns it ...

More information: Silvi Shah et al, Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients on Home Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis, ...

Home dialysis is not a novel idea, said Leslie Trigg, Outset Medical’s chief executive. In the early 1970s, over 30 percent of dialysis patients were estimated to have done their treatment at home.

This type of dialysis is typically done at home. ... Automated peritoneal dialysis uses a machine to do your exchanges. Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis involves doing your exchanges by hand.

One is called HD or hemodialysis the other is called PD or peritoneal dialysis. HD uses an artificial kidney machine to filter blood three to five times a week. PD uses the lining of the abdomen ...

The risk for stroke was significantly lower with home hemodialysis (at 42%) than with peritoneal dialysis (HR, 0.58), and the adjusted risk for acute coronary syndrome was 17% lower (HR, 0.83).

Peritoneal dialysis was most common at first admission, according to the findings, with rates of 93% for patients younger than 1 year, 62% for those aged 1 to 5 years, 40% for those aged 6 to 12 ...