Low, High Potassium Ups Mortality in CKD Patients
Hypo- and hyperkalemia found to increase death risk by 26% and 22%, respectively.
Hypo- and hyperkalemia found to increase death risk by 26% and 22%, respectively.
Absence of association observed in patients with normal or near-normal baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate.
Starting on peritoneal dialysis was associated with a 25% lower dementia risk versus starting on hemodialysis, a study showed.
Within 10 years of surgery, men younger than 60 years are more likely to die from prostate cancer than from other causes.
Even patients who quit smoking less than 10 years after radical prostatectomy are at increased risk.
In the absence of co-infection with hepatitis C virus, their graft and patient survival rates are similar to those of HIV-negative patients.
Daniel Canter, M.D., discusses narrow-band imaging (NBI) for visualization of bladder cancer.
Sorafenib or sunitinib given after surgery for advanced renal cell carcinoma does not improve progression-free survival, study shows.
The 4Kscore enables better identification of men who harbor high-grade prostate cancer.