Hemodialysis in the Home—13 Months' Experience
Authors: CONSTANTINE L. HAMPERS
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1966)

Article1 February 1966Hemodialysis in the Home—13 Months' ExperienceCONSTANTINE L. HAMPERS, M.D., JOHN P. MERRILL, M.D., F.A.C.P.CONSTANTINE L. HAMPERS, M.D., JOHN P. MERRILL, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-64-2-276 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptWith the demonstration by the Seattle group (1) that hemodialysis can be applied successfully to the long-term management of chronic renal failure has come an increased demand for this form of therapy. Other centers, including ourselves, have had an equally satisfactory experience with this treatment (2-4). It would appear that intermittent hemodialysis as a means of maintaining patients with end-stage kidney disease can no longer be considered entirely experimental.Because of the increased financial and logistic demands placed upon the medical centers by the enlarged dialysis load and because it is our opinion that the financial and medical responsibility for...References1. HEGSTROMMURRAYPENDRASBURNELLSCRIBNER RMJSJPJMBH: Two years' experience with periodic hemodialysis in treatment of chronic uremia. Trans. Amer. Soc. Artif. Intern. Organs 8: 266, 1963. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. SCHUPAKMERRILL EJP: Experience with long-term intermittent hemodialysis. Ann. Intern. Med. 62: 509, 1965. LinkGoogle Scholar3. MAHERFREEMANSCHREINER JFRBGE: Hemodialysis for chronic renal failure: II. biochemical and clinical aspects. Ibid. p. 535. Google Scholar4. BRANDONNAKAMOTOROSENBAUMFRANKLINKOLFF JMSJLMWJ: Prolongation of survival by periodic prolonged hemodialysis in patients with chronic renal failure. 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Proceedings: Conference to Consider Treatment of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease with Uremia. American Medical Association and National Kidney Disease Foundation, New York, June 20-22, 1963. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Boston, MassachusettsFrom the Cardiorenal Section of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, Mass.This study was supported in part by grants IR-01-HE-08260-01, U. S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md., and DA-49-193-MD-2497, U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command. This study was carried out in the Clinical Research Center of Harvard Medical School and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, supported by grant 8M01-31-04 of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.Dr. Hampers is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the National Institutes of Health (5-F2-HE-22, 551-C2), Bethesda, Md.Requests for reprints should be addressed to John P. 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