Explore Treatment Options

• A kidney transplant is a surgery that replaces your failing kidney with a healthy one.
• It is possible to get a transplant before you lose all kidney function.
• Getting a transplant requires placement on a wait list and tests to determine if you and the kidney donor are a match.
• After a transplant, you will need medicines to keep your body from rejecting the new kidney.

• It is the best treatment for kidney failure.
• It gives you a living kidney that works better than dialysis.
• A transplant can give you more energy, and more food and beverage options than dialysis.
• A transplant provides more time and freedom than dialysis.
• Transplanted kidneys can last 12 to 15 years.

• PD uses the lining of your abdomen (belly) and a cleaning fluid called dialysate to clean your blood. Blood never leaves your body.
• Dialysate is added to your belly through a tube. When done cleaning, the dialysate is emptied out through the same tube.
• PD is most commonly prescribed as a daily treatment.

*The prescribing physician will determine the required treatment frequency and duration based on medical necessity.

• You can be trained to do it at home instead of in a clinic.
• You may have more food and beverage options.
• You don’t need to use needles.
• Your treatment schedule is more flexible than other dialysis choices (potentially making work, activities and travel easier to do). You can even do most of your treatment overnight while you sleep.
• Home dialysis may help your kidneys work for longer, if you have residual kidney function.
• Treating every day may give you more energy than other dialysis options.¹

• HHD is done three to six** times a week and can sometimes be done while you sleep.
• HHD uses needles to access your blood and a machine to clean and return it to your body.
• With HHD, you may need a care partner to help you. But you can do it alone if allowed by your doctor.***

**Your kidney doctor will determine the required treatment frequency and duration based on medical necessity. Although HHD is often prescribed with a more frequent schedule, the doctor must evaluate the patient’s clinical needs and consider potential benefits and risks.

***Check with your kidney doctor and dialysis provider for details regarding each treatment option based on your personal needs and requirements.

• You and a care partner can be trained can do it at home instead of in a clinic.
• You may have more food and beverage options.
• Your treatment schedule is more flexible than other dialysis choices (potentially making work, activities and travel easier to do).
• Treating more often than in a clinic may give you more energy.****

****While there could be potential quality of life and physiological benefits to more frequent dialysis, there is also risk of an increase in vascular access procedures and hypotension.

• ICHD is done in a clinic with a machine that cleans your blood.
• Needles are used to access your blood.
• Treatments are typically in an open room where other patients get dialysis, too.
• You will get help from staff at a center.

• A trained professional can provide you the treatments in a clinic.
• You can talk with other dialysis patients.
• Some clinics also offer nocturnal ICHD, which allows patients to dialyze there overnight.

• A SNF is similar to a nursing home where nurses provide health care under a doctor’s supervision.
• Home hemodialysis (HHD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD) is given on site.
• Dialysis staff coordinate with facility nurses to support your entire care plan.

• A professional can give you dialysis in your living space.
• You are recovering from an illness or injury and need transitional or rehabilitative care.
• Your dialysis team can more easily coordinate with your other doctors on your care plan.

Interested in finding an onsite SNF dialysis program near you? Learn more about on-site dialysis at skilled nursing facilities.