Policies to promote referral for kidney transplant should be coupled with efforts to strengthen shared decision-making to ensure that the decision to undergo transplant evaluation is framed as an explicit choice with benefits, risks, and alternatives and patients have an opportunity to shape their ...
Alternatives for facilitating the insertion of the guidewire in difficult cases. Directing it through a ureteral catheter (a), under direct ureteroscopic control (b). 6.3.4 Ensuring Access to the Intramural Ureter The ureterovesical junction and the intramural ureter constitute the ureteral segment ...
Several research directions emerged for alternatives in support of the ever-growing numbers of patients. Recent years brought big steps forward in the field, with researchers questioning and improving the current dialysis devices as well as moving towards the design of a bioengineered kidney. Whole-...
The study tracked 30 years of living kidney donation and found that by 2022, fewer than 1 of every 10,000 donors died within three months of the surgery. Transplant centers have been using older data – citing a risk of 3 deaths per 10,000 living donors – in counseling donors about pot...
Therefore, future research efforts in non-invasive (such as blood) alternatives for obtaining the data are needed to expand the accessibility and utility of the MRS in clinical practice. Our study is also subject to several limitations that merit acknowledgment. First, we were limited by the ...
Potentially reversible causes of AKI, such as infection, drugs, hypotension, and hypovolemia, should be identified and addressed. Patients with CKD should be carefully evaluated before undergoing intravenous contrast studies, and alternatives should be considered first. Additionally, nephrotoxic agents, inc...
Conclusions and Relevance These findings describe an all-or-nothing approach to caring for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease in which initiation of dialysis served as a powerful default option with few perceived alternatives. Stronger efforts are needed to develop a more patient-centered app...
Both synthetic and natural hydrogels have been utilised to this end, and are emerging as viable alternatives to animal-derived materials. An excellent example is alginate, a natural scaffold, which has been utilised for a range of organoid types [27,106], including the kidney, where it has be...
Kidney Disease is a big problem in the third world countries because of the high costs of treatment.The need of the hour is to have more and more kidney disease detection clinics, there is a need to develop a cost-effective strategy for the treatment and take up steps to arrest the death...
This paradox has been discussed before, but the Limulus Amoebocyte Assay is still in use, lacking valid alternatives60,61. The main problem is the presence of many inhibiting substances in serum, that can influence any of the enzymes of the Limulus Amoebocyte Assay cascade leading to decreased ...