..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. End-stage renal disease Polycystic kidney disease Total kidney volume Cystic kidney diseases comprise a spectrum of genetic disorders characterized by renal cyst formation and growth, along with variable extrarenal...

.... Cardiotonic steroids Chronic kidney disease End-stage renal disease Sodium potassium pump Ouabain Marinobufagenin Bufalin Telocinobufagin Digoxin There is a complex relationship between the kidneys and the heart, with the activity of kidneys strongly influencing the activity of the heart...

...Etienne Macedo; Ravindra L. Mehta Since the creation of Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss of Kidney Function, and End-Stage Renal Disease (RIFLE) criteria in the last 10 years, the use of a standardized definition of acute kidney injury (AKI) has made it possible for epidemiologic studies to document...

...Albert Power; Edwina Brown The features of ageing complicate the management of end-stage renal disease. These complicate all dialysis modalities and will greatly affect the ability to cope with interventional treatments and quality of life. The presence of other illnesses and comorbidity associated...

...Albert Power; Damian Fogarty; David C. Wheeler Background/Aims: Systemic thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke is the standard of care in the UK. In the absence of trial data on the safety and efficacy of this treatment in patients with end-stage renal disease, we captured the views of UK...

...Fe-Lin Lin Wu; Yung-Ming Chen; Tai-Shuan Lai; Li-Jiuan Shen; Yunn-Fang Ho; Yi-Ting Lee; Ming-Show Wu; Shuei-Liong Lin; Kwan-Dun Wu Background: The incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in Taiwan ranks highest in the world, but the incidence of Chinese herb nephropathy (CHN) is unknown...

... and area level socioeconomic status (SES) with heavy proteinuria at presentation, progression of CKD, end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and death. Methods: A retrospective study of 918 CKD patients using integral multivariate logistic regression to adjust for known clinical and demographic explanatory...

...Rodney G. Bowden; Paul La Bounty; Brian Shelmadine; A. Alexander Beaujean; Ronald L. Wilson; Stuart Hebert Background and Aims: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients with hypercholesterolemia as a major cause. A few studies have...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Haemodialysis Peritoneal dialysis End-stage renal disease Dialysis options Quality of life Dialysis is now considered routine care for the treatment of end-stage renal disease in elderly patients, many of whom have...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Renal transplantation Deceased-donor kidney Benign prostatic hyperplasia End-stage renal disease At the dawn of transplantation in 1954, a future in which this therapy would be appropriate for recipients in their retirement...

... in a small number of countries. Portugal has the highest incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) among European countries, but there are huge disparities among countries. Whether these disparities reflect differences in risk factors, prevalence of CKD or other factors is currently unknown. Methods: We...

... (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). While the explanations for these worldwide epidemics remain speculative, it must be acknowledged that these increases in AKI, CKD and ESRD, happening worldwide, have occurred despite the universal application of strategies of renoprotection over the last 2...

...Emaad M. Abdel-Rahman; Guofen Yan; Faruk Turgut; Rasheed A. Balogun Background: Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on hemodialysis (HD) are prone to falls. In this pilot study, we aimed to determine the incidence of falls in a cohort of HD patients during a 1-year period, to identify any...

... used receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) analysis to create accurate clinical grades based on clinical parameters associated with the development of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in IgAN patients. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of 116 patients with IgAN. The association between...

..., p = 0.006). Patients with kidney disease had a significantly higher number of crises/hospitalizations (p < 0.001). Seven patients died in all and 4 (57%) of them had end-stage renal disease. We concluded that kidney disease is a common complication of SCD and significantly contributes...

... inflammation Chronic kidney disease Endotoxemia Endotoxin End-stage renal disease Inflammation Signs of an activated immune system and elevated levels of inflammatory mediators can be observed in the early stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and increase with the progression of renal...

... kidney disease Genetic variation Genome-wide association studies Diabetic nephropathy End-stage renal disease The past decade has witnessed a revolution in the field of genetic research. We have emerged from the realm of early genetic studies, such as linkage analysis and the candidate gene...

...York Pei Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common mendelian disorder of the kidney and accounts for ∼5% of end-stage renal disease in North America. It is characterized by focal development of renal cysts which increase in number and size with age. Mutations of PKD1...

...Ivor J. Katz; Trevor Gerntholtz; Sarala Naicker Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is not a priority on the health agenda in Africa and it remains a ‘forgotten condition’. Most people in Africa do not have access to dialysis or transplantation, if they develop end-stage renal disease. Cardiovascular...

.... Prevention Campaign Proteinuria Creatinine Chronic kidney disease End-stage renal disease More than 1 million people are alive due to renal replacement therapy, and 90% of them are in developed countries [ 1 ]. On the other hand, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is considered...