Dialysis treatment vital to keeping kidney disease patients alive could end up killing them, health officials warned.
For patients with kidney failure, mechanically cleansing the blood outside the body three times a week is the only way they can stay alive. However, the long-term access site needed to draw and return blood to the body can weaken and fail, according to an alert from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene?s Office of Health Care Quality.
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