Frequent Hemodialysis Linked with Increased Access-Related Risks.

The risk for an access event (repair, loss, or access-related hospitalization) was 76% higher with daily hemodialysis compared with conventional hemodialysis in a study of 245 hemodialysis patients. The daily group had 33 repairs and 15 losses and the conventional group had 17 repairs, 11 losses, and 1 hospitalization. Similar trends were seen with nightly hemodialysis compared with conventional hemodialysis among 87 patients, although the results were not statistically significant. The findings are published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.