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Your kidney replacement therapy - it's your choice!

If your kidneys fail, there are different therapies available to prolong your life or reduce symptoms

This tool may help you to inform yourself about different treatment options and thereby to choose the right treatment that best fits your lifestyle and conditions. The final decision will be done together with your medical team, who will guide you through available therapy options.

Disclaimer

The information provided on the Fresenius Medical Care website is not medical advice and is only for informing about therapy choices, and it does not replace discussing with your medical team. Medically, it might be the case, that not all treatment options are suitable for you. As a result, the final decision for a kidney replacement therapy needs to be made with your medical team as this tool only contains lifestyle topics.

Please also note that this tool is focusing on lifestyle aspects with regard to adults only, not children.

How it works

You have the possibility to choose values underneath, that matter most to you individually.
There are 3 different kind of values. Feel free to check all of them!

By "checking" the most important ones, you will recieve further information for all therapies: dialysis, transplantation and conservative care.

Please be aware, that it might make sense to start only with some values, max 3, as there are quite some information on the following pages.

Directly on the next page, there is the possibility to exclude therapies, in case one or two are not interesting for you and for which you have already been told by your physician that they are not an option for you.

After having chosen the values and therapies, you get to the main part: you will get information, why a therapy might be suitable or why it might not be suitable for the value(s) you chose based on your lifestyle.

You have the possibility to rate the different therapies based on those facts as well in the following pages. Underneath each therapy, there are little stars to rate the therapy with 0 to 5 stars.

The more feedback you give, the better the result in the end.

Directly on the next page, there is the possibility to exclude therapies, in case one or two are not interesting for you and for which you have already been told by your physician that they are not an option for you.

After having chosen the values and therapies, you get to the main part: you will get information, why a therapy might be suitable or why it might not be suitable for the value(s) you chose based on your lifestyle.

You have the possibility to rate the different therapies based on those facts as well in the following pages. Underneath each therapy, there are little stars to rate the therapy with 0 to 5 stars.

The more feedback you give, the better the result in the end.

What matters to you?

Check the values that matter most to you.

For each value you select, you´ll be able to rate how each treatment option fits your life.

We´ll show you a summary when you´re done.

Fresenius Medical Care thanks MEI

A non-profit organization - for the use of the program My Kidney Life Plan. This tool was adapted based on www.mydialysischoice.org with permission from the Medical Education Institute, Inc.

Do you need some further informations about the different therapie options?