What is it about?
End-stage kidney disease patients who require hemodialysis for more than three months have little chance of leaving dialysis unless they have a kidney transplant. Educating the patient about lifestyle changes can play a major role in improving kidney functions.
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Why is it important?
we created a patient education program secondary to our nephrology experiences which name is Toprak's Kidney Care. Herein, we show an end-stage kidney disease patient who underwent hemodialysis for 6 months. After, dialysis was terminated with patient care, and was then followed up for 9 years without dialysis.
Perspectives
There have been no reports regarding the termination of long-term dialysis by a kidney care program and the ensuing 9-year follow-up without renal replacement therapy.
MD Omer Toprak
Balikesir University School of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
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This page is a summary of: Discontinuing Hemodialysis with Patient Care and a Successful 9-Year Follow-up in a Patient Presumed to have End-Stage Kidney Disease Scheduled to Lifelong Hemodialysis: A Case Report, Clinics and Practice, February 2021, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/clinpract11010019.
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