Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . With the kidney disease community facing a particularly high risk of COVID-19 and becoming hospitalized, a safe ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Health literacy, stage 5 kidney disease and hypertension were linked to replacement therapy. After intervention, ...

COUSHATTA, LA (KSLA) - One man achieved the highest level of education possible, all while he was on dialysis. Bobby Claiborne, 56, spends 4 and a half hours of his Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at ...

More than 26 million Americans have chronic kidney disease, 1 a progressive, usually irreversible condition, in which their kidneys lose the ability to remove wastes and excess fluid from the blood.

A UCLA-led team has developed a machine-learning model that can predict with a high degree of accuracy the short-term survival of dialysis patients on Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT). CRRT ...

In the 1960s and through the 1970s, intermittent peritoneal dialysis (PD) was used for the long-term treatment of uremia. The results, however, were disappointing. 1 Three major advances have made ...

PUTRAJAYA: A pre-dialysis education programme specifically for stage 4 and 5 chronic kidney patients will be introduced in all government health facilities nationwide beginning next year, says Health ...

Dialysis, a life-saving intervention for end-stage renal disease, has evolved into a highly specialised medical field. The increasing complexity of patient care has led to the emergence of specialised ...

Hyponatremia at Hemodialysis Initiation Increases Death Risk Only 67% of Black patients on dialysis who responded to an online survey had a nephrologist involved in their care, compared with 97% of ...

PUTRAJAYA: A pre-dialysis education programme specifically for stage four and five chronic kidney patients will be introduced in all government health facilities nationwide beginning next year, says ...