Table 2:
Contiued
| Sample characteristics | Dialysis characteristics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authors, year, country, study design, duration (PMID) [Ref.] | Key enrolment criteria | high flux HD | HDF | high flux HD | HDF |
| n. 195 | |||||
| Age: 58.8±13.8 years | Duration: NA | ||||
| Males: 62% | Vascular access: | ||||
| AVF 97.5 % | |||||
| Diabetes: 33% | Filter: FX60 or FX80 | ||||
| Active smokers: 23.8% | Infusate volume: 18.1±0.68 L/session | ||||
| Previous CVD: 29% | Convection strategy: >17.4 L/session | ||||
| Morena et al., (FRENCHIE) 2017, France 24 months | Inclusion: – age ≥65 years | n. 152 | n. 151 | Dialysis vintage: 4.76±5.41 months | Dialysis vintage: 4.93±6.2 months |
| – diuresis <100 mL/24 h and/or residual kidney function <2 mL/min/1.73 m2 | Age: 76.41±6.79 years | Age: 76.61±5.86 years | Duration: 234.6±20.4 min | Duration: 238.8±36 min | |
| – HD for ≥3 months | Males: 61.18% | Males: 59.6% | Vascular access: | Vascular access: | |
| – HD 3 t/w | AVF 68.06 % | AVF 86.75 % | |||
| RCT | – haemoglobin 9 - 13 g/dL | Diabetes: 38.42% | Diabetes: 39.36% | ||
| (28318624) | Filter: NA | Filter: NA | |||
| [13] | Exclusion: | Active smokers: NA | Active smokers: NA | ||
| – severe malnutrition (serum albumin <20 g/L) | Infusate volume: 22.53±6.76 L/session | ||||
| – unstable clinical condition | Previous CVD: 51.05% | Previous CVD: 52.66% | Convection strategy baseline: NA | ||
| – unipuncture or failed vascular access flow | |||||
| – problems of coagulation | |||||
| Kang et al., (FINESSE) 2021, Australia 48 months | Inclusion: – adult patients on maintenance HD | n. 61 | n. 63 | Dialysis vintage: 37.2 (14.4-72) months | Dialysis vintage: 38.4 (22.8-62.4) months |
| Age: 65±16 years | Age: 66±13 years | Duration achieved: NA | Duration achieved: NA | ||
| Exclusion: | |||||
| – life expectancy <6 months | Males: 54% | Males: 57% | Vascular access: | Vascular access: | |
| – definite plans to undergo kidney transplantation | AVF 74% | AVF 81% | |||
| RCT (34233923) [31] | – transfer to home dialysis within 12 months | Diabetes: 30% | Diabetes: 41% | Graft 12% | Graft 8% |
| – already receiving HDF | CVC 15% | CVC 11% | |||
| Active smokers: NA | Active smokers: NA | ||||
| Filter: NA | Filter: NA | ||||
| Previous CVD: NA | Previous CVD: NA | Infusate volume: 24.7 (22.4-26.5) L/session | |||
| Convention Strategy: >17.4 L/session | |||||