Dialysis at home is a good choice for Kidney Disease Patient

A recent study found that people with kidney disease can do any treatment at home after undergoing a kidney transplant from a donor. The researchers in Canada to 12-year follow-up study of 1239 patients who received kidney transplants from dead donors or who received hemodialysis at home at night.

4195 people from Canada on the waiting list for a transplant, 71 percent need kidneys. According to research, while waiting for donors, about 2 percent of the people on the waiting list died.

This study found that patients who receive care at home, survival rates similar to those that have been transplanted. On the night hemodialysis, the patient's blood is cleansed of toxins normally be removed by the kidneys during sleep. Treatments last six to eight hours, much longer than in conventional dialysis centers, up to seven times a week.

According to a study published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation September 2009 edition, survival rates for those receiving kidney transplants from living donors is better than doing dialysis at home and recipients of the deceased.

Hemodialysis at night may be a "bridge to transplant" or "suitable alternative" for a transplant if a patient's risk is too high to do the transplant or can not find a suitable donor because the donor organ shortage.

Dr. Christopher Chan, medical director of home hemodialysis at Toronto General Hospital and a professor at the University of Toronto said in a news release that the study allowed him to actually answer what the patient had asked him for more than a decade: "What mean nighttime hemodialysis for my life? "Now I can tell them that this is a good choice of specific dialysis received the transplant from a donor who had died.

In this study, the researchers take into account age, race, diabetes status and duration of treatment with conventional dialysis center using data from the U.S. Renal Data System.

Study findings for 12 years, 14.7 percent of hemodialysis patients at home at night died, compared with 14.3 percent for patients with transplants from donors who have died and 8.5 percent for patients who have received live donor transplants.

According to Chan, although previous studies have shown that patients who receive transplants have survival rates better than those on dialysis, these findings suggest that repeated and long dialysis provided by nursing night may have advantages over conventional dialysis.

After trying conventional dialysis, Florence Tewogbade, 27, switched to hemodialysis in the home in April 2008. According to this Tewobage has changed his life. Now he can work, go to school, waiting for the future and become independent.