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.
MONTREAL—Denosumab significantly prolongs bone metastasis-free survival (BMFS) and delays time to bone metastasis in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), according to data presented at the Canadian Urological Association annual meeting.
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.
MONTREAL—The timing of radiation therapy (RT) after radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer does not affect the rate of urinary incontinence, bladder neck contracture, and urethral stricture long term, according to researchers.
MONTREAL—Patients with locally advanced prostate cancer (PCa) have significantly better long-term biochemical disease-free survival (bDFS) if they are treated with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) rather than cryoablation, Canadian researchers reported.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Silodosin may be an effective treatment for moderate or severe chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS), researchers reported at the American Urological Association 2011 annual meeting.
NEW ORLEANS—The combination of sustained-release naltrexone and bupropion leads to sustained clinically meaningful weight loss and improves markers of cardiovascular risk in obese patients, according to results released at the 60th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology.
