Dialysis

First NxStage Home Hemodialysis Patients Celebrate Five-Year Anniversary

Published in Blood Weekly, January 22nd, 2009

NxStage Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ:NXTM), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, announced that a group of its first patients are celebrating their five-year anniversary of home hemodialysis treatment with the NxStage(R) System One(TM), the first truly portable home hemodialysis machine. Each of the four patients touts an improved quality of life characterized by better health and well being.

As early adopters of daily home hemodialysis with the NxStage System One, each of the patients arrived at the decision to try NxStage at various stages in their treatment. All four patients are followed by Satellite WellBound Centers, a NxStage partner that established...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2009-01-22)

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