Survival and hospitalization for intensive home hemodialysis compared with kidney transplantation.

ABSTRACT: Canadian patients receiving intensive home hemodialysis (IHHD; ≥16 hours per week) have survival comparable to that of deceased donor kidney transplant recipients in the United States, but a comparison with Canadian kidney transplant recipients has not been conducted. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of consecutive, adult IHHD patients and kidney transplant recipients between 2000 and 2011 at a large Canadian tertiary care center. The primary outcome was time-to-treatment failure or death for IHHD patients compared with expanded criteria, standard criteria, and living donor recipients, and secondary outcomes included hospitalization rate. Treatment failure was defined as a permanent switch to an alternative dialysis modality for IHHD patients, and graft failure for transplant reci

SUBMITTER: Tennankore KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4147990 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature