The values of home hemodialysis in renal replacement therapy

Abstract

In the case of home hemodialysis, it is known that a patient pathophysiology, quality of life, and cost effectiveness, etc. improve compared to that of conventional HD (3 times/4 hours per a week) based on evidence of medicine and analysis of social science. In this article, opinion of the author who has received benefits of renal replacement therapy is described from a point of view of long survival patient and a researcher about home artificial organ's therapy.