October 15, 2012 — Patients receiving long-term dialysis who undergo major, nonemergent general surgery have an increased risk for postoperative complications and death, according to a large ...

Despite declining rates of vascular access complications in the United States, Black patients remain at higher risk for them compared with White patients. Despite declining rates of vascular access ...

Nieltje Gedney was half-asleep in her West Virginia home, watching murder mysteries over the hum of a bedside hemodialysis machine, when she felt something warm and wet in her armpit. A needle ...

Researchers evaluated the link between diabetic retinopathy and macrovascular complications in patients undergoing hemodialysis. The risk of macrovascular complications increases for some patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The rate of dialysis-related complications was lower in the automated peritoneal dialysis group. Total direct ...

Recently published results showed medical complications and frailty may be driving factors for the high rate of hemodialysis withdrawals before death found in a single center. Among 1,226 patients on ...

Hemodialysis (HD) is a life-saving treatment for more than 1,700,000 patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage V. Every year the HD population becomes increasingly older (average age: 75 years) ...

HEMODIALYSIS has been used more frequently in recent years because of the increased application in acute renal failure, the repetitive use in chronic renal failure and the growing list of dialyzable ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CloudCath, a company dedicated to remote complication monitoring for patients undergoing catheter-based treatments, today announced that it has completed a $12 million ...