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CMAJ
CMAJ - March 7, 2000JAMC - le 7 mars 2000

Overnight dialysis

CMAJ 2000;162:633

See response from: A.Pierratos
In June 1968, a colleague and I reported the case of a 14-year-old malnourished girl with end-stage renal disease who was dialysed daily, except Sunday, for 8­14 hours overnight.1 She had an excellent response, went home on this regime and eventually received a transplant. In October of the same year, we described our experience with 22 patients on home hemodialysis, 20 of whom were dialyzed 10 hours overnight 3 times weekly with the patient asleep for most of the procedure.2 This regime was initiated by groups at the Royal Free Hospital in England3 and in Seattle.4

My question to Andreas Pierratos, the author of "Nocturnal hemodialysis: dialysis for the new millennium," [full article]5 is this. To which millennium was he referring?

Michael Kaye
Nephrologist
Hudson, Que.

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References

  1. Kaye M, Comty C. Nutritional repletion during dialysis. Am J Clin Nutr 1968;21:583-9. [MEDLINE]
  2. Kaye M, McDade D, Dufresne L, Comty C. Hemodialysis at home. CMAJ 1968;99(16):779-85.
  3. Baillod RA, et al. Proc Eur Dial Transplant Assoc 1965;2:99.
  4. Curtis FK, Cole JJ, Tyler LL, Scribner BH. Hemodialysis in the home. Trans Am Soc Artif Intern Organs 1965;11:7-10.
  5. Pierratos A. Nocturnal hemodialysis: dialysis for the new millennium. CMAJ 1999;161(9):1137. [MEDLINE]

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