For the ninth straight year, I came away from Kidney Week (formerly Renal Week), the annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, feeling badly that Renal & Urology News can only report on a fraction of the thousands of studies presented at the meeting.
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Dr. M, 59, was an experienced urologist with a busy private practice. He had been in the field for close to 30 years and was well known and respected in the community. His office was staffed by several nurses, some of whom had been working there for decades.
Gout is increasingly recognized in patients with chronic kidney disease, but the proper dosing regimen for traditional agents has not been well-studied in this patient group.
Antibiotics can decrease colonization of a common intestinal bacterium that metabolizes oxalate, perhaps rendering patients more susceptible to the formation of calcium oxalate kidney stones, according to researchers.
ORLANDO—A weight loss program delivered by telephone can be just as effective in obese patients with at least one cardiovascular risk factor as a weight loss program delivered with in-person support, researchers reported at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2011.
PHILADELPHIA—Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a relatively high prevalence of gout compared with the general population, according to data presented at Kidney Week 2011.
PHILADELPHIA—Uncontrolled secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) has been on the increase among black hemodialysis (HD) patients since the recent implementation of the federal government’s prospective payment system for dialysis services, researchers reported at Kidney Week 2011.
PHILADELPHIA—Epoetin alfa (EPO) use has decreased and intravenous (IV) iron use has increased significantly in private dialysis units since the introduction of the Medicare bundling rule for end-stage renal disease services, data presented at Kidney Week 2011 suggest.
PHILADELPHIA—Untreated secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is associated with increased mortality risk in hemodialysis (HD) patients, according to a report presented at Kidney Week 2011.
