Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) who convert to hemodialysis (HD) after failing treatment with peritoneal dialysis (PD) may be at higher death risk in the first year than ESRD patients who used HD as their primary treatment, but researchers caution that the association may not be causal.
Kidney transplant candidates who are placed on a waiting list after receiving a nonrenal solid-organ transplant make up a significant and more rapidly growing cohort compared with the general kidney transplant population, researchers concluded.
TORONTO—Use of an oral phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitor (PDE5i) significantly reduces urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy (RP), according to data presented at the joint annual meeting of the International Continence Society and the International Urogynecological Association.
TORONTO—An analysis of gene-expression patterns in women with overactive bladder (OAB) may point the way to possible new biomarkers for the condition.
Acute graft pyelonephritis (AGPN) in renal transplant recipients does not impair long-term graft function, according to Spanish researchers.
TORONTO—Caesarean deliveries significantly reduce the risk of prolapse compared with vaginal delivery, according to a data presented at the joint International Continence Society—International Urogynecological Association annual meeting – but only if women had all their deliveries by Caesarian. Having even one baby vaginally removed this effect.
Black and Hispanic living kidney donors are at increased relative risk for hypertension, diabetes requiring drug therapy, and CKD compared with their white counterparts, according to researchers.
