Virtual Cross-Matching May Speed Kidney Transplant Process
Cold ischemia time for donor kidneys reduced after implementation of virtual cross-matching program
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Evaluation of Hypertension, Proteinuria, and Abnormalities of Body Weight in Italian Adolescents Participating in the World Kidney Days.
World Kidney Day (WKD) was promoted by the Italian Kidney Foundation and the Italian Society of Nephrology for raising awareness, detection, prevention, and treatment of kidney diseases. The Italian WKD focused on the...
Read MoreAssociation between anemia and renal prognosis in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: a retrospective study.
Though anemia is a sign of poor renal prognosis in chronic kidney disease (CKD), hemoglobin (Hb) levels are typically higher in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) than in other kidney diseases, and anemia has...
Read MoreBurden and challenges of heart failure in patients with chronic kidney disease. A call to action.
Patients with the dual burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and chronic congestive heart failure (HF) experience unacceptably high rates of symptom load, hospitalization, and mortality. Currently, concerted efforts to...
Read MoreEnd-Stage Kidney Disease Is Overlooked as a Proximate Cause of Death at Autopsy.
To determine how often end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is implicated as a cause of death (COD) at autopsy.We searched our autopsy database (2007-2017) using queries “end-stage renal disease,” “end-stage kidney...
Read More Economic Burden of Kidney Transplant Graft Failure Quantified
For average patient, graft failure will impose medical costs of $78,079 and loss of 1.66 QALYs
Read MoreA brief review on the rising incidence of chronic kidney diseases and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Chronic kidney diseases (CKDs) are the most common forms of kidney disease all around the world. The incidence of CKD is rising, which is mainly driven by population aging as well as by a global rise in hypertension, metabolic...
Read MoreAdipose tissue collection from a living kidney donor; an experimental model for the research of atherosclerosis.
Thanks to an increased number of living-donor kidney transplants the IKEM transplant program offers the possibility of obtaining adipose tissue for scientific purposes from patients with varying degrees of atherosclerosis....
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