Terumo has developed a range of portable peritoneal dialysis machines and home infusion-therapy equipment which allows patients to have transfusions without supervision.
The law was amended again to equalize rates except for continuous cycler-assisted peritoneal dialysis, a method performed on patients at home while they sleep.
It involves an 'intelligent implantable modulator', just a few millimetres across, which is attached using cuff electrodes to the vagus nerve within the peritoneal cavity found in the abdomen.