ALLMedicine™ Chronic Kidney Disease Center

Dec 3rd, 2021 - To explore the risk factors for central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) by comparing a large sample of patients with healthy controls. Multi-center case-control study. The study group includes patients affected by central retinal vein occlusion, con...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Changes in the composition of the gut microbiota have been linked to various disorders including obesity, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease. Interestingly, aging together with the abovementioned conditions are risk factors for atrial fibril...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) is considered the standard in quantifying portal hypertension, but can be unreliable in dialysis patients. A noninvasive ultrasound technique, subharmonic-aided pressure estimation (SHAPE), may be a valuable...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Whether hyperuricemia is a true risk factor for elevated blood pressure (BP) is controversial, and the sex-specific effects of serum uric acid (SUA) on BP during a follow-up period remain unclear. We investigated whether the association of SUA lev...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Spot determinations of the urine creatinine concentration are widely used as a substitute for 24-hour urine collections. Expressed as the amount excreted per gram of creatinine, urine concentrations in a single-voided sample are often used to esti...

Sep 8th, 2021 - Chronic kidney disease: summary of updated NICE guidance.|2021|Martinez YV,Benett I,Lewington AJP,Wierzbicki AS, ,|therapeutic use,therapeutic use,urine,diagnosis,physiopathology,therapy,therapeutic use,

Jul 13th, 2021 - Kidney disease is an important public health problem. Both acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease have been well defined and classified, leading to improved research efforts and subsequent management strategies and recommendations. F...

Jun 22nd, 2021 - The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) 2021 clinical practice guideline for the management of blood pressure (BP) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) not receiving dialysis is an update of the KDIGO 2012 guideline on the s...

May 8th, 2021 - Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects about 10% of all populations worldwide, with about 2 million people requiring dialysis. Although patients with CKD are at high risk of cardiovascular disease and events, they are often underrepresented or exclu...

May 8th, 2021 - Renal failure can be divided into acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease. Both are common and result in increased patient morbidity and mortality. The etiology is multifactorial and differentiation of acute kidney injury from chronic kidne...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and coexisting chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at increased risk of atherothrombotic events, underscoring the importance of secondary prevention antiplatelet therapy in these high-risk patients. Clopidogrel is...

Dec 1st, 2021 - This study is open to adults who have kidney disease and do not have diabetes. The purpose of the study is to find out whether a medicine called BI 685509 improves kidney function. Three different doses of BI 685509 are tested in this study. Parti...

Nov 25th, 2021 - As part of a post-approval commitment, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of the Republic of Korea (hereinafter "Korea") requests a study to characterize the safety in patients treated with dapagliflozin by physicians in normal clinical p...

Nov 25th, 2021 - There is a need for better screening of kidney transplant patients for rejection. Patients with kidney transplants are routinely tested (creatinine, urine protein, histology and donor specific antibody (DSA) as standard of care to detect rejection...

Nov 24th, 2021 - Prospective study to : find the relation between electrolytes disturbance and renal diseases the effect of electrolyte abnormalities on atherosclerosis prevalence of acute coronary syndrome in patients with chronic kidney disease

Nov 24th, 2021 - Certain opioids are proving to be effective in treating a variety of itch conditions, according to Brian S. Kim, MD.

Nov 15th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hospital admission with a diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) is an independent risk factor for multiple adverse patient outcomes within three months and one year after discharge, according to a new study. "These fin...

Nov 15th, 2021 - When provided at the bedside of patients hospitalized for heart failure, an electronic health record (EHR) alert with prognostic information did not improve outcomes or appear to have any impact on what treatments were offered. There was no signal...

Nov 15th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults taking a proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) before cardiac surgery may be at increased risk for developing acute kidney injury (AKI), according to new research. "Our findings suggest that PPI exposure is a modifiable ri...

Nov 15th, 2021 - New analyses of trial results for the cardiorenal agents finerenone and sotagliflozin continued the pattern showing that they exert consistent heart failure benefits in patients who span a broad spectrum of renal function, further disproving the n...