Can more fluid removal mean needing less toxin removal?

Makers of a wearable ultrafiltration (UF; water removal) device wanted to know if daily UF could be a way to cut back on the need for dialysis toxin removal. For 4 weeks, 13 in-center patients had 4 days a week of UF plus 2 days a week of HD. Then they did 4 weeks of standard, 3x week HD. Daily UF lowered blood pressure and weight gain between treatments significantly—while Kt/V rose.

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Tags: Chronic kidney disease

When choosing a treatment option, lifestyle is what matters to patients

A metaanalysis found 16 studies of how people with late-stage CKD choose what type of dialysis to do. Common elements included the life-or-death nature of ESRD; minimal intrusion of treatment into quality of life, autonomy, values, and sense of self; and making informed choices.

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Surgery to fix PD catheters in place is safe, effective

PD catheters that move around in the belly can be painful and may stop working. Korean doctors compared 22 PD catheters placed by a laparoscopic technique that fixed them in place to 32 placed by open surgery. The age and sex of both groups was the same, and the fixing technique took longer to do. But, 29 months later, the fixed catheters were much less likely to move (13.6% vs. 65.6%). Both techniques had the same catheter and patient survival.

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What does glucose in PD fluid have to do with artery calcification?

Quite a bit, it appears. Among 50 people doing PD who did not have diabetes, about half had coronary artery calcification. Those who used more higher glucose PD fluids were more likely to have the problem, as were men with a history of heart disease, and those who did not get enough PD.

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