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Night home hemodialysis shown to be as good as transplant in treating kidney failure
Published in Blood Weekly, September 10th, 2009
In a study entitled, "Survival among nocturnal home hemodialysis patients compared to kidney transplant recipients," published in the international September issue of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, a total of 1,239 patients were followed for up to 12 years. Night home hemodialysis patients were compared to patients who received either a deceased donor kidney transplant or a living donor kidney transplant. The study found that the survival between night home dialysis patients and those who received...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2009-09-10)
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