Peritoneal dialysis (PD) continues its slow march toward equal popularity within the nephrology community. In most areas of the United States, it is still the minority to the behemoth that is ...

Kidney disease impacts millions globally. Two main treatments, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, offer life-saving solutions. Hemodialysis uses a machine to filter blood, while peritoneal dialysis ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My 96-year-old mother has stage 5 kidney disease (GFR is 12) along with congestive heart failure. She’s not your typical 96-year-old — she is sharp as a tack, still attends church ...

THE purpose of this communication is to demonstrate that peritoneal dialysis can be performed safely and successfully on small infants and that the removal of boric acid and, presumably, other ...

For permission requests, please contact NEJM Reprints at [email protected] The patients were 4 adult females, twenty to forty years old, admitted to the Los Angeles County Hospital with acute ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the United States, the annual rate of growth in incident patients with end-stage kidney disease has slowed.

In an analysis of data on Medicare beneficiaries starting dialysis in 2008–2015, overall Medicare expenditures for in-center hemodialysis were 11% more than for home-based peritoneal dialysis, and ...