More Frequent In-Center Hemodialysis in Pediatric End Stage Renal Disease

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients with a scheduled (with a specific transplant date) kidney transplant in the next 6 months
• •Patients scheduled to be switched to peritoneal dialysis in the next 6 months
• •Patients currently receiving \>3 days per week of hemodialysis
• •Patients currently receiving \>12 hours per week of hemodialysis
• •Anyone \<3 years of age would be excluded from the study, so our minimum anticipated patient weight would be about 11 kg
• •Patients \>21 years of age at enrollment
• •Patients receiving concomitant peritoneal dialysis
• •Patients with \<2 months on chronic HD
• •Patients with a temporary or femoral dialysis catheter
• •Patients who are not hypertensive (both not on blood pressure medication and with a SBP \<95th percentile for age, sex, and height)
• •Patients enrolled in an investigational drug trial involving blood pressure medication or any other clinical trial potentially affecting the primary outcome of the study
• •Patients listed for a deceased donor transplant will not be excluded.