ALLMedicine™ Chronic Kidney Disease Center

Jun 26th, 2022 - Patients with chronic kidney disease develop anemia largely because of inappropriately low erythropoietin production and insufficient iron available to erythroid precursors. In four phase 3, randomized, open-label, clinical trials in dialysis-depe...

Jun 26th, 2022 - An accurate estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is essential in drug dosing. This study demonstrates the limitations of indexed (mL/min/1.73m2 ) and de-indexed (mL/min) eGFR based drug dosing in patients with obesity or underweight. This s...

Jun 26th, 2022 - Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is one of the most important diabetic complications. DKD is also the most common cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease. This review focused on potential therapeutic drugs for which there is...

Jun 25th, 2022 - To test whether the revised Wilson and Cleary model could identify which factors contribute to health-related quality of life in chronic kidney disease. Chronic kidney disease affects a person's health-related quality of life detrimentally althoug...

Jun 25th, 2022 - Clinical practice guidelines recommend specialist referral according to different criteria. The aim was to assess recommended and observed referral rate and health care expenditure according to recommendations from: • Kidney Disease Improving Glob...

Apr 24th, 2022 - Numerous genes for monogenic kidney diseases with classical patterns of inheritance, as well as genes for complex kidney diseases that manifest in combination with environmental factors, have been discovered. Genetic findings are increasingly used...

Feb 9th, 2022 - At-Home Exercise Guide for People With Chronic Kidney Disease.|2022||

Feb 2nd, 2022 - Patients with nocturia are commonly referred to urology clinics, including many for whom a nonurological medical condition is responsible for their symptoms. The PLanning Appropriate Nocturia Evaluation and Treatment (PLANET) study was established...

Jan 27th, 2022 - A significant percentage of people with diabetes develop chronic kidney disease and diabetes is also a leading cause of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). The term diabetic kidney disease (DKD) includes both diabetic nephropathy (DN) and diabetes me...

Jan 5th, 2022 - People with type 1 and type 2 diabetes are at risk of developing progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney failure. Hypertension is a major, reversible risk factor in people with diabetes for development of albuminuria, impaire...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Atrial fibrillation (AF) is more common in patients with renal disease compared to the general population an risk increase to as much as 10 times in patients on hemodialysis (HD). Stroke is an important cause of morbidity, mortality and suffering ...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Conservative care is an important therapeutic option for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) who do not wish to pursue maintenance dialysis. However, most patient educational materials on treatment options for advanced CKD do not i...

Jun 24th, 2022 - Sepsis is the leading cause of acute kidney injury (AKI) and a major cause of death. Patients with SA-AKI have a high mortality and morbidity and are at risk of developing chronic kidney disease. AP is a homodimeric endogenous enzyme present in ma...

Jun 24th, 2022 - The goal is to help improve counselling and ASA adherence for preeclampsia prevention in pregnant women with SLE. This study could offer the ideal setting for the conduct of a future study assessing the efficacy of ASA for prevention of placenta-m...

Jun 24th, 2022 - The optimal frequency of hemodialysis treatments in patients with incident end-stage kidney disease in not known. This pilot trial will randomize patients with incident end-stage kidney disease due to chronic kidney disease progression to two diff...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. In the 2022 Management of Hyperglycemia consensus statement from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), the focus has shifted. Regarding t...

Jun 20th, 2022 - The following highlights are a brief overview of guideline updates, drug approvals, and diagnostics relevant to geriatric medicine from June 2021 to April 2022, some of which were discussed at the American Geriatrics Society conference in May. I s.

Jun 17th, 2022 - Hypertension, or high blood pressure (BP), affects nearly half of all adults in the United States (116 million) and contributes to nearly 13% of all deaths worldwide. It is a major risk factor for stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, vasc...

Jun 16th, 2022 - US clinicians caring for people with diabetes should take a more aggressive approach to using combined medical treatments proven to slow the otherwise relentless progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a new joint statement by th...

Jun 9th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. The American Diabetes Association has recently released the 2022 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes. Among the highlights are the use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors to slow the ...