Dialysis is a treatment that takes over your kidney functions if those organs stop doing their job. If your kidney disease becomes very severe and crosses a point where there's not enough function to ...

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is the final stage of chronic kidney disease. It results in irreversible kidney impairment and causes a significant decline in urine production and glomerular filtrate ...

Stopping dialysis is possible, but it may significantly shorten a person’s life expectancy. On average, they may continue to live for several days to weeks after stopping treatment. Dialysis is a ...

In the past decade the greatest increases in peritoneal dialysis utilization have occurred in China, Thailand and the USA; peritoneal dialysis utilization has decreased in parts of Europe and in ...

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