Renal replacement therapy

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Renal replacement therapy is a term used to encompass life-supporting treatments for renal failure.

It includes:

• hemodialysis,
• peritoneal dialysis,
• hemofiltration and
• renal transplantation.

These treatments do not cure chronic kidney disease; they are palliative treatments. Early dialysis in acute renal failure may have favourable outcomes and bring resolution of renal failure.