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One of the most concerning risk factors for end-stage kidney disease is cardiovascular damage. Home hemodialysis (HHD) is a means of personalizing the approach to renal replacement therapy aiming at the reduction of the high incidence of cardiovascular disease.

These lectures will show how stress on the heart and the vascular system contributes to kidney failure, resulting in inefficient excess fluid removal and causing elevated blood pressure. Consequently, fluid status needs close monitoring and frequent adjustments. Treatment options, such as the home-based treatment modality HHD, allow for detection and control of fluid overload, hypertension, cardiac remodeling, and vascular calcification, which are essential factors to preserve and improve the cardiovascular health of individual patients.

Watch the open access lectures of Dr. Allan J. Collins, Dr. Maria F. Slon Roblero, and Prof. Dr. James G. Heaf discussing cardioprotective dialysis at home here on the Nephrology Campus.