What’s the difference between daily, home-based treatment with NxStage Therapy and daily, home-based treatment with peritoneal dialysis?
NxStage Therapy is a portable and less complicated application of hemodialysis, which uses an external filter to remove waste products directly from the patient’s blood. In contrast, peritoneal dialysis involves the catheter-based delivery of a solution into an abdominal membrane called the peritoneum that is rich in blood vessels and acts as a filter to eliminate toxins and excess fluid from a patient’s blood. Patient treatment with peritoneal dialysis is less common than conventional hemodialysis, because of some of the clinical and practical limitations of the therapy. However its simplicity and portability has allowed great flexibility in how and where therapy is delivered, with nearly all peritoneal dialysis patients choosing to treat themselves at home.
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