Nephrology
Jan 28, 2022
THURSDAY, Jan. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Vitamin D supplementation, with or without omega-3 fatty acid supplementation, is associated with a significant reduction in the incidence of autoimmune dis...
Jan 27, 2022
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with gout and chronic kidney disease (CKD), no associations with increased mortality were seen for allopurinol initiation, achieving target seru...
Jan 27, 2022
TUESDAY, Jan. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with gout and chronic kidney disease (CKD), no associations with increased mortality were seen for allopurinol initiation, achieving target seru...
Jan 25, 2022
MONDAY, Jan. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Black patients are more likely than White patients to have at least one negative descriptor in the history and physical notes of their electronic health recor...
Jan 24, 2022
The renal elimination of uremic toxins (UTs) can be potentially altered by drugs that inhibit organic anion transporters 1/3 (OAT1/OAT3). The objective of the present study was to determine whether th...
Jan 24, 2022
To evaluate the association of a multicomponent advanced glycation end product (AGE) panel with decline in kidney function and its utility in predicting renal function loss (RFL) when added to routine...
Jan 24, 2022
Hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase domain inhibitors (HIF-PHI) are a new treatment for renal anemia. HIF-PHI is believed to increase iron usage to improve availability of iron for erythropoie...
Jan 24, 2022
To evaluate in real-life conditions the effectiveness and safety of a biosimilar of epoetin alpha (Retacrit®) in chemotherapy-induced anemia and the impact of iron supplementation.This was a longitud...
Jan 20, 2022
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The absolute number of stage 3 acute kidney injury (AKI) kidneys transplanted increased from 2010 to 2020, according to a study recently published online i...
Jan 18, 2022
Spend just a few minutes scrolling online health sites and one will find experts of every stripe extolling the virtue of hydration—increased consumption of H2O is good for the heart, skin, brain...
Jan 17, 2022
Previous studies have demonstrated that solid organ transplant (SOT) patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are at an increased risk of postoperative complications. The purpose of t...
Jan 17, 2022
Current guidelines recommend estimating glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) using creatinine (eGFRcr) with the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation as the first test for ...
Jan 17, 2022
To study the effects of the seleno-chitosan on daily gain, wool yield, and blood parameters in the Chinese merino sheep in the selenium (Se)-deficient pastures. The samples of soils, forages, and tiss...
Jan 17, 2022
Anemia affects about the 25% of the global population and can provoke severe diseases, ranging from weakness and dizziness to pregnancy problems, arrhythmias and hearth failures. About 10% of the pati...
Jan 17, 2022
Untargeted plasma metabolomic profiling combined with machine learning (ML) may lead to discovery of metabolic profiles that inform our understanding of pediatric CKD causes. We sought to identify met...
Jan 13, 2022
THURSDAY, Jan. 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The four-variable Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE) better predicts the two-year risk for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) than estimated glomerular filtra...
Jan 12, 2022
Study included patients who mounted inadequate responses to 3 doses of mRNA vaccine A fourth dose of an mRNA vaccine produced "satisfactory" antibody response in kidney transplant recipients who fail...
Jan 11, 2022
Study says ’yes,’ but renal expert doubts the findings will boost racial equity in kidney care A kidney failure risk score based on four variables did a better job of predicting two-year ...
Jan 10, 2022
Nephrectomy in kidney transplant donors provokes a compensatory hyperfiltration process of the residual kidney, characterized by changes in renal vascular hemodynamics. This research aimed to determin...
Jan 10, 2022
Pegloticase, a PEGylated uricase for uncontrolled gout, rapidly lowers serum urate (SU). Not all patients complete a full-therapy course because anti-pegloticase antibodies can develop, causing effica...