PRAGUE—End-stage renal disease patients who start on peritoneal dialysis (PD) rather than hemodialysis (HD) spend less time on a renal transplant waiting list before getting a kidney, new findings suggest.
PRAGUE—Renal transplant recipients who have anemia three months after receiving a kidney are more likely to have anemia more than six months post-transplant, according to researchers.
PRAGUE—Taking antihypertensive medications at bedtime significantly reduces cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk compared with ingesting the drugs upon awakening, according to researchers.
PRAGUE—Early referral patients who start dialysis with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) below 6 mL/min/1.73 m2 are not at increased risk of death compared with those who start dialysis at an eGFR above 6, a study showed.
PRAGUE—A single four-week course of rituximab was as effective as 18 months of standard therapy with daily oral cyclophosphamide (CyP) and azathioprine (AZA) for induction and maintenance of remission in patients with severe anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV). For either treatment, the number, rate, and severity of adverse events did not differ.
PRAGUE—Therapy with bardoxolone, an oral antioxidant inflammation modulator, is associated with improved kidney function out to one year in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes, according to investigators.
MUNICH, GERMANY—Planned early initiation of dialysis does not improve survival or clinical outcomes among patients with end-stage renal disease, study findings show.
MUNICH, GERMANY—Allopurinol, a drug long used to treat gout, can cause regression of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and improvement of endothelial dysfunction in CKD patients, a study found.
MUNICH, GERMANY—Sexual dysfunction is highly prevalent in men and women with CKD, data show.
MUNICH, GERMANY—Urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by non-coliform bacteria are significantly more common among renal transplant patients compared with the general population, according to a British study.
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