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Cost of Care Reduced With Utilization of Home Hemodialysis
According to the United States Renal Data System, use of home dialysis has increased since 2017. Across all payer types, ...
Outcomes in Patients With COVID-19-Related AKI
While COVID-19 is recognized as a typical syndrome of acute respiratory illness, it can also affect multiple organ ...
Dietary Counseling and Recurrence of Hyperkalemia in Patients With CKD
Previous studies have examined the role of medical nutrition therapy (MNT) in progression of chronic kidney disease ...
Improving Diagnostic Precision With Genetic Testing
Monogenic kidney diseases are associated with approximately 10% of occurrences of chronic kidney disease (CKD). ...
Neurocognitive Evaluation and Time to Transplant Waitlist
Up to 38% of patients with end-stage renal disease experience cognitive impairment. The risk for developing ...
Pegloticase in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Gout
Kidney transplant recipients with gout and hyperuricemia face increased risks for adverse outcomes. Results of the ...
Advanced CKD, Heart Failure and Risk of Dementia
Researchers, led by Amara Sarwal, MD, conducted a study to determine whether chronic kidney disease (CKD) and heart ...
Hypertension in Living Kidney Donors by Race/Ethnicity
Complications associated with living kidney donation include hypertension. However, according to Ekamol Tantisattamo, ...
Outcomes Among Critically Ill Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis
The majority of patients receiving peritoneal dialysis have end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). However, according to ...
Symptom Burden and Quality of Life in AKI-D
According to Y. Diana Kwong, MD, and colleagues, there are few data available on the symptom burden and quality of life ...
ADPKD in Young Adults: Burden and Progression
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is adversely affected in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney ...
Changes in eGFR in Patients With Gout During Treatment With Pegloticase
Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) commonly experience gout, a condition associated with CKD ...
AKI-D in Patients With CKD Hospitalized for Pneumonia
Patients admitted to the hospital for pneumonia commonly develop acute kidney injury (AKI). Those who progress to AKI ...
Patient Financial Stress and Medication Nonadherence
According to Dua Abedeen, MPH, and colleagues at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, undue ...
A Process Model for Referral to Kidney Transplant Evaluation
While the preferred modality for kidney failure treatment is kidney transplant, most patients initiate dialysis prior to ...
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