One sixth of patients receiving dialysis in the UK manage their underlying chronic kidney disease using peritoneal dialysis. Although it is generally undertaken at home, non-specialist renal nurses ...

Peritoneal dialysis allows patients living with stage 5 chronic kidney disease to manage their disease at home. However, such patients may be admitted to hospital with various health problems and be ...

ANAHEIM—Individuals who end up in the hospital emergency room after months, maybe years, of ignoring the signs of kidney failure usually have a fairly standard course of treatment: dialysis delivered ...

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When Fallon Bell was only 19 years old, she was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, the same disease that both her mother and aunt lived with. Chronic kidney disease, or CKD, is when a person’s ...

Minister of Health and Wellness Robert Henderson visits the provincial renal program at the QEH with medical director Dr. Derek Chaudhary. (Government of P.E.I. ) A big change for more than a dozen ...

A long-term care home in Komoka, Ont. has become the first in the South-West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) to gain Ministry of Health approval to offer in-home peritoneal dialysis, according ...