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Just offhand, finerenone doesn’t look like agreatdrug. Helpful, maybe. Chronic kidney disease can end up at ESRD (end stage renal disease), which requires thrice weekly hemodialysis if the patient wants to stay alive. (Yes, peritoneal dialysis is an alternative.) Preventing ESRD is an inc...
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While Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) stills the most dreaded complications of diabetes, studies on the prevalence of chronic kidney disease non-dialysis diet are scarce. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of chronic kidney disease among the Tunisian diabetic population based on ...
and their families. In this chapter we will provide an overview of medical decision-making for children with kidney disease, including considerations specific to dialysis and transplantation. We will introduce pediatric palliative care and its role in supporting children with kidney disease and their fa...
The treatment of patients with CKD involves a multidisciplinary approach, with a primary goal of slowing the progression of kidney disease to avoid dialysis or transplantation and a secondary goal of reducing the significant cardiovascular disease burden that accompanies CKD. For patients with T2D and ...
Dialysis Unit, University Hospital of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan, and Koichi Asahi, MD, PhD, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan; Maccabi: Gabriel Chodick, PhD, Epidemiology and Database Research, MaccabiTech Healthcare Services, Tel...
Renal cell cancers (RCC) in the native, failed kidneys are well-known, and are more common in kidney transplant and dialysis patients than the general population. RCC, while rare in transplanted kidneys, could arise from the recipient or the donor. This distinction has consequences for staging ...
Chronic kidney disease is a major public health burden. Elevated urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio is a measure of kidney damage, and used to diagnose and stage chronic kidney disease. To extend the knowledge on regulatory mechanisms related to kidney
function properly and completely cease to work, the condition is termed as kidney failure or end-stage renal disease. This leads to accumulation of toxic waste products in the body which makes the person sick. In such conditions, there are two treatment options – dialysis and kidney transplant...