Thirty years survivor on hemodialysis: a case report

Hemodialysis is a widely performed and safe procedure; therefore,the numbers of long-term survivors on hemodialysis therapy have been increasing. We present a woman who had been on uninterrupted hemodialysis for 30 years and did well for much of her time on hemodialysis,despite a long-standing uneven course. The literature of extremely long-lived patients on un-interrupted hemodialysis is reviewed and the clinical characteristics and complications encountered in these patients are discussed.