title: Home hemodialysis offers excellent survival.
abstract: In selected patients, home hemodialysis offers excellent patient survival and opportunities for rehabilitation. In this article I review some survival and rehabilitation data from the literature. I then report on our experience with training 204 patients in the inner city since 1969. Cumulative technique survival is 17% at 28 years. In addition, I report the outcome of 13 patients, "long survivors, " who have been maintained on home hemodialysis for 20 or more years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, SUNY-Health Science Center at Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA.
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Delano
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006437:Hemodialysis, Home / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009518:New York / Q000453:epidemiology; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D015996:Survival Rate