Baxter Highlights New Home Dialysis and HDx Therapy Data in 14 Clinical Presentations at Kidney Week 2022

Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global innovator in kidney care, advanced scientific exchange with 14 new data presentations about the role innovation plays in increasing access to and quality of home dialysis and expanded hemodialysis (HDx) care at Kidney Week 2022, Nov. 3-6, Orlando, Florida. Key data highlighted include:

• A study indicating a significant reduction in all-cause mortality and fluid balance, and cardiovascular and metabolic related adverse events, in home automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) patients with Sharesource remote patient management (RPM) versus APD patients without RPM, “Adverse Events and Hospitalizations with Remote Patient Monitoring of Patients on Automated Peritoneal Dialysis” [Abstract #FR-PO504].

• A simulated dialysis study indicating expanded hemodialysis (HDx) enabled by Theranova demonstrates the best balance when aiming to achieve higher clearance of larger molecular weight middle molecules while minimizing albumin loss, “On the Removal of Middle Molecules and Albumin Loss: An Ex Vivo Evaluation of Commercial Dialyzers” [Abstract #SA-PO405].

“With a growing global deficit between the number of patients with kidney disease and those receiving care, we believe a combination of collaboration, education and innovation is necessary to help increase both access to and quality of care,” said Peter Rutherford, MB BS, PhD., vice president, Medical Affairs, Baxter Renal Care. “Scientific exchange is an important part of the collaboration and education initiatives, which we are very pleased to support at this year’s Kidney Week.”

Sharesource Remote Patient Management

Baxter’s Sharesource RPM digital health platform allows healthcare professionals to monitor their patients’ home dialysis treatments, and then remotely adjust therapy without the need for patients to make unplanned visits to the clinic. Sharesource is currently serving more than 50,000 patients, across more than 70 countries on Baxter’s APD cyclers. The RPM study [Abstract #FR-PO504] presented at Kidney Week 2022 was a cluster randomized, controlled trial, at 21 hospitals across Mexico, where care units were randomly assigned to treat their APD patients with or without RPM.