... should be considered a treatment strategy for patients with these features to preserve kidney function and avoid dialysis therapy. [email protected] 2 04 2024 20 10 2024 1 11 2024 © 2024 The Author(s). Published by S. Karger AG, Basel Open Access License / Drug...

..., the significance of serum myostatin concentrations at dialysis initiation has not been established. We investigated the relation between serum myostatin concentrations and mortality or hospitalization within 1 year in incident dialysis patients. Methods: After a patient initiating hemodialysis or peritoneal...

... statistics, there were 2.31 million ESRD patients who underwent dialysis in the world in 2008. With an annual increase of 7%, it is expected to exceed 5.4 million by 2030. Therefore, it is not surprising that CKD is considered a public health priority in terms of dialysis numbers. In addition to removing...

... erythropoietin receptor activator (C.E.R.A.), for the treatment of CKD-associated anemia in patients receiving dialysis in daily clinical practice. Methods: 247 patients receiving chronic intermitted dialysis in 26 centers in Poland with CKD-associated symptomatic anemia, ESA-naïve, and with balanced iron stores...

..., quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2023 COVID-19 Dialysis Hemodialysis SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine More than 2...

... Acute kidney injury Potassium Dialysis Mortality Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a complex syndrome associated with substantial morbidity and mortality [ 1, 2 ]. These complications have been attributed, in part, to the alterations of the internal environment that are generated when kidney...

... in dialysis units were calculated separately for wave 1 and wave 2. Survival and hazard ratios for mortality were described with age- and sex-adjusted Kaplan-Meier plots and multivariable Cox proportional models. Results: 4,408 ICHD patients had COVID-19 during the study period. Unadjusted survival at 28 days...

... necessitating kidney replacement therapy which is difficult or impossible to access or prohibitively expensive in many countries around the world [ 11-13 ]. Deutsche Foschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 10.13039/501100001659 Diabetic nephropathy Glomerulosclerosis Dialysis Translational research...

... to nonusers. Methods: We utilized a cohort of 28,620 pre-dialysis US veterans transitioning to hemodialysis between October 2007 and March 2015. Incident rates for the risks of stroke and bleeding were ascertained based upon CHA 2 DS 2 -VASc or HAS-BLED scores, respectively. A propensity score-based competing...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Coronavirus disease 2019 Chronic kidney disease ESKD Dialysis Intensive care unit...

... patients enrolled in the ACTIVE/ADIPOSE dialysis cohort study between 2009 and 2011. The number of prescribed medications and frailty were assessed at baseline, 12, and 24 months. Frailty was defined based upon the Fried’s frailty phenotype. We used logistic regression with generalized estimating equations...

...) is an important risk factor of stroke and dementia. A comprehensive assessment of CSVD in a dialysis population is needed. Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, we enrolled 179 dialysis patients and 351 controls matched by sex and age with normal serum creatinine. The presence and locations of 3...

... decompensated renal failure, 31 under dialysis treatment, and 11 kidney transplant recipients. Results: The time span between the diagnosis of infection and recovery based on laboratory testing (2 negative nasopharyngeal swabs in consecutive days) was 31.7 ± 13.3 days. Three new positive cases were detected...

...Ankur A. Dashputre; Keiichi Sumida; Praveen K. Potukuchi; Suryatapa Kar; Yoshitsugu Obi; Fridtjof Thomas; Miklos Z. Molnar; Elani Streja; Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh; Csaba P. Kovesdy Introduction: Patients with advanced non-dialysis-dependent CKD (NDD-CKD) have a reduced ability for maintaining plasma...

... receiving dialysis. Glycated albumin is an alternative glycemic marker, and some studies have found that glycated albumin more accurately reflects glycemic control than HbA 1c in these groups. However, several factors are known to influence the value of glycated albumin including proteinuria. Continuous...

...Adrian C. Covic; Stuart M. Sprague; Anjay Rastogi; Markus Ketteler; Sebastian Walpen; Amandine Perrin; Jürgen Floege Introduction: Control of hyperphosphatemia in patients on dialysis remains a major challenge. Objective: This study evaluated predictors of serum phosphorus (sP) control among...

... was compared with PFO i/o , and both were evaluated for associations with dialysis requirement, AKI stage 2 or 3, and 90-day mortality. Results: Fifty-eight patients with a median age of 67.5 years (interquartile range 18.0) were recruited. Of which, 33 (56.9%) were males and 41 (70.7%) had preexisting CKD 3...

... disease (ESKD). COVID-19 patients with ESKD need isolation dialysis, but most of them cannot be handled in time due to limited continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) machines. CRRT provided benefits for this patient by removing potentially damaging toxins and stabilizing his metabolic and hemodynamic...

...Adesewa Oloko; Hari Talreja; Alexandra Davis; Brendan McCormick; Edward Clark; Ayub Akbari; Jennifer Kong; Swapnil Hiremath Background: It is important for medical practitioners to be aware of the effect of iodinated contrast media on the residual renal function (RRF) of dialysis patients who...

... Background and Objectives: A geriatric assessment (GA) is a structural method for identifying frail patients. The relation of GA findings and risk of death in end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is not known. The objective of the GA in OLder patients starting Dialysis Study was to assess the association of GA...