TUESDAY, May 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Increased exposure to heavy metal lead, cadmium, or volatile organic compounds may be associated with an increased prevalence of chronic kidney dise...
AKI promotes the development of papillary renal cell carcinoma from single progenitors...
Second study shows ambulatory BP patterns not tied to cognitive impairment or frailty in CKD patients...
New research was virtually presented at NKF 2020, the Spring Clinical Meetings of the National Kidney Foundation, from March 26-29. The features below highlight some of the studies that emer...
Although patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) cannot survive without lifelong renal replacement treatment, such as dialysis and renal transplantation, these highly demanding treatmen...
Patients advised to continue ACE inhibitors/ARBs after researcher posits risk for severe COVID-19 infection FRIDAY, March 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients already prescribed angiot...
Few studies have investigated the association of magnesium levels with incident peripheral artery disease (PAD) despite emerging evidence of magnesium contributing to vascular calcification....
Excessive intake of phosphate has been known to induce renal tubular damage and interstitial inflammation, leading to acute kidney injury or chronic kidney disease in rodents and humans. How...
Likelihood of being cured, discharged higher for patients without versus with digestive symptoms...
Variation exists regardless of guideline-based screening strategy used...
To explore how working-age adults experience patient participation in hospital haemodialysis.End-stage kidney disease is a progressive, chronic condition imposing patients with high treatmen...
Chronic kidney disease is a significant problem of public health worldwide, and up to 60% of patients start dialysis in an unplanned manner without a definitive dialysis access. Recently, pe...
Recombinant human soluble thrombomodulin (rhTM) was approved in 2008 and has been used for treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation in Japan. The antifibrotic effects of rhTM in a...
29 recommendations address CV, hematology, pulmonary, renal, endocrine considerations...
Amiodarone inhibits warfarin metabolism and is associated with major bleeding during warfarin therapy. Managing this drug-drug interaction (DDI) is challenging because of substantial interpa...
Burden measured both by direct morbidity, mortality and as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease...
Sleep disorders in children with chronic kidney disease have been assessed in a limited number of studies. Our aim was to characterize the types of sleep disorders in children on regular hem...
Twenty-nine of 60 quality metrics were rated as having high validity, while eight had low validity...
Cold ischemia time for donor kidneys reduced after implementation of virtual cross-matching program...
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...
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