This activity is provided by Haymarket Medical Education. Faculty George L. Bakris, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, ASH Comprehensive Hypertension Center, Chicago, IL David Cherney, MD CM, PhD, FRCP(C), Associate Professor of Medicine – University of Toronto, Clinician Scientist – Division of Nephrology, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Release Date: December 10, 2015Expiration Date: December 10,…
Early-stage chronic kidney disease(CKD) may be an independent riskfactor for increased carotid intima-mediathickness (IMT), a biomarker ofatherosclerosis, according to findingspublished online in the Journal ofStroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. In a study of 3,629 individualswithout clinical cardiovascular diseaseat baseline, Yu Wu, PhD, of BeijingTiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University,Beijing, China, and colleaguesfound that subjects with an estimatedglomerular…
Patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) are more likely to have acomplete pathologic response (pT0) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) ifthey have pure urothelial carcinomas rather than cancers with variant histologicfeatures or mixed tumors, a study found. Venkata K. Pokuri, MD, of Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY, andcolleagues studied 50 robotic cystectomy patients (median…
If ESRD patients face increasing dif ficulty getting a kidney transplant in coming years, they may see an artificial kidney as the next best alternative.
Preoperative magnetic resonanceimaging (MRI) may be useful in predictingprostate cancer-specific mortality(PCSM) after radical prostatectomy(RP), according to Korean researchers. Sungmin Woo, MD, and colleaguesat the Seoul National University studied318 patients who underwent MRI followedby RP. After a median follow-upof 104 months, 11 patients (3.5%) diedfrom prostate cancer. Of the 318 patients, 104(32.7%) had clinically significant canceron…
Up to 100 mg per day raises plasma concentrations of ascorbic acid without increasing oxalate levels.
High levels of soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor are associated with an elevated CKD risk in individuals with normal eGFR.
Study shows that it increases urine volume and decreases supersaturation with stone-forming calcium salts.
The association is independent of anemia, according to researchers.
Medicare patients affected by the reform experienced a 12% decrease in the odds of home dialysis use compared those unaffected by the reform.
