Optimum dialysis treatment for patients over 60 years with primary renal disease. Survival data and clinical results from 242 patients treated either by haemodialysis or haemofiltration.

An analysis of the data of 180 haemodialysis patients and 62 haemofiltration patients over 60 years of age when commencing treatment, clearly shows that this age group of patients (when suffering from primary renal disease) has a very good chance of surviving many years when treated with either haemodialysis or haemofiltration. This refers also to patients being older than 75 or 80 years, who have survival rates of 50 per cent after five years and three years respectively. The presented data further indicate that chronic haemofiltration seems to be the superior treatment when compared with acetate haemodialysis for the treatment of elderly renal patients, as the survival rates are at any chosen time interval higher with haemofiltration than with haemodialysis.