CORAL study chair Lance Dworkin, MD, discusses the controversial finding with Renal & Urology News.
Geriatric patients with CKD are at high risk for morbidity and mortality from the potential side effects of treatments.
Children on dialysis who have anemia and require high doses of drugs to treat it are at increased risk of dying prematurely.
Study reveals a decline in the use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents and an increase in the use of iron.
Each 0.5 mg/dL increment in phosphorus was associated with a 7% increased risk of anemia.
Ordering process cut the number of epoetin alfa doses by 71% and medication costs by 69%.
In a head-to-head comparison, researchers observed a higher rate of adverse events with iron dextran than iron sucrose or ferric gluconate.
Iron absorbed from oral ferric citrate boosted iron stores and sustained hemoglobin levels.
Patients with higher levels of anti-CMV antibodies have lower number of red blood cells.
Greater resistance to ESA is associated with an increased risk of death among patients on chronic HD.
Considerable variation in incidence of HAA across hospitals; teaching status and region linked to risk.
Serum hepatitis E virus levels were undetectable in 78% of patients at least 6 months after stopping treatment.
Ferumoxytol and iron sucrose have comparable safety in the treatment of anemia in patients with CKD.
Platelets may aggregate more easily in iron-deficient patients.
Soluble ferric pyrophosphate (Triferic), an investigational drug, is delivered to hemodialysis patients via dialysate.
In a study, ferumoxytol and iron sucrose treatment was associated with comparable increases in hemoglobin levels and adverse event rates.
This trait in African-American hemodialysis patients was associated with a 13.2% higher dose of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents.
Decreasing TSAT and higher ESA doses are associated with increasing platelet counts.
