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The End-Stage Renal Disease Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 1978
By the mid 1960\u27s it had been clearly demonstrated that the lives of people with total, permanent kidney failure could be indefinitely prolonged with the artificial kidney and that an acceptable proportion of kidney transplants would be successful ...
Stacy, William K.
core   +1 more source

Risk prediction to inform surveillance of chronic kidney disease in the US Healthcare Safety Net: a cohort study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
BackgroundThe capacity of electronic health record (EHR) data to guide targeted surveillance in chronic kidney disease (CKD) is unclear. We sought to leverage EHR data for predicting risk of progressing from CKD to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) to help ...
Chertow, Glenn M   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Addressing Economic Insecurities Can Improve Patient‐Reported Outcomes in Lupus

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Economic insecurities, such as food, housing, transportation, and financial challenges, are modifiable risk factors and influence patient‐reported outcomes (PROs) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We examined the following: (1) associations between economic insecurities and PROs, and (2) the impact of screening and addressing economic ...
Jay Patel   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pica in end-stage chronic kidney disease: Literature review

open access: yesNefrología (English Edition), 2019
Pica is an individual entity in the patient with chronic kidney disease (CKD), which phenomenon has not been widely studied despite the high reported prevalence.
Claudia N. Orozco-González   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Primary osteoblast-like cells from patients with end-stage kidney disease reflect gene expression, proliferation, and mineralization characteristics ex vivo. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Osteocytes regulate bone turnover and mineralization in chronic kidney disease. As osteocytes are derived from osteoblasts, alterations in osteoblast function may regulate osteoblast maturation, osteocytic transition, bone turnover, and skeletal ...
Bowen, Richard E   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Clinical, histological, and serological predictors of renal function loss in lupus nephritis.

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Kidney survival is the ultimate goal in lupus nephritis (LN) management, but long‐term predictors remain inadequately studied, requiring long‐term follow‐up. This study aimed to identify baseline and early longitudinal predictors of kidney survival in the Accelerating Medicines Partnership LN longitudinal cohort.
Shangzhu Zhang   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiological Transition of End-Stage Kidney Disease in Oman

open access: yesKidney International Reports, 2017
The number of persons receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT) is estimated at more than 2.5 million worldwide, and is growing by 8% annually. Registries in the developing world are not up to standards compared to the United States Renal Data System ...
Faisal Al Ismaili   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life on the list: an exploratory study of the life world of individuals waiting for a kidney transplant

open access: yes, 2010
Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for many individuals with end stage renal disease (ESRD), as transplantation is reported to offer a greater quality of life than renal dialysis.
Addington-Hall, Julia   +4 more
core  

Smart, Bio‐Inspired Polymers and Bio‐Based Molecules Modified by Zwitterionic Motifs to Design Next‐Generation Materials for Medical Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Bio‐based and (semi‐)synthetic zwitterion‐modified novel materials and fully synthetic next‐generation alternatives show the importance of material design for different biomedical applications. The zwitterionic character affects the physiochemical behavior of the material and deepens the understanding of chemical interaction mechanisms within the ...
Theresa M. Lutz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictive Value of Serum Hepcidin Levels for the Risk of Incident End-Stage Kidney Disease in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: The KNOW-CKD

open access: yesKidney Diseases
Introduction: Despite the pivotal role of hepcidin in the development of anemia among the patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), the association between serum hepcidin levels and CKD progression has been never investigated. We here hypothesized that
Sang Heon Suh   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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