Global Dialysis Perspective: Kuwait

Home dialysis—an international perspective

Background. There is strong evidence from a range of long-term conditions of improved outcomes where patients are involved in self-management. Against this background, the international trend for home dialysis continues to decline, with centre-based haemodialysis continuing its dominance. Methods. An opinion-based commentary exploring practice patterns and drivers for home dialysis internationa...

Factors influencing dialysis outcome: the dialysis dose in perspective.

planted may be better than that of patients who remain Introduction on dialysis. In a centre or country in which there is a vigorous transplantation programme, ‘dialysis alone’ The nature of renal replacement therapy (RRT), the survival is not strictly comparable with that obtained term applied to dialysis and transplantation, has if there is little or no transplantation. changed dramatically i...

Police-Community Relationship in Kuwait: Public Relations Perspective

Peritoneal dialysis: a primary care perspective.

As the population of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) grows at an alarming rate, primary care physicians will increasingly be involved in the management of these patients. Early recognition of CKD and timely referral to a nephrologist when glomerular filtration rate approaches 30 mL/min/1.73 m(2) is extremely important to improve ESRD outcome and appropriate selec...

Palliative Dialysis: A Change of Perspective

The aging phenomenon of dialysis patients is a worldwide reality, observed in developed and developing countries. Those patients have high incidence of chronic conditions along with high mortality rates and for some of them a decline in functional status within the first 12 months of dialysis therapy. Nevertheless, the elderly dialysis patients represent a very heterogeneous group where prognos...