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Comparative Effectiveness of Home Dialysis Therapies: A Matched Cohort Study

Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, 2016
Background: Home dialysis is being increasingly promoted among patients with end-stage renal disease, but the comparative effectiveness of home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis is unknown. Objective: To determine whether patients receiving home daily
Gihad E. Nesrallah, Lihua Li, Rita S. Suri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home dialysis: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference.

Kidney International, 2023
J. Perl, E. Brown, Christopher T Chan, C. Couchoud, S. Davies, R. Kazancioglu, S. Klarenbach, A. Liew, D. Weiner, Michael Cheung, M. Jadoul, W. Winkelmayer, M. Wilkie   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Intravenous lanadelumab for the treatment of moderately ill COVID‐19 patients

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Kallikrein‐kinin system (KKS) dysregulation is hypothesized to play a pathogenetic role in COVID‐19‐associated pulmonary oedema. To investigate the efficacy and safety of intravenous lanadelumab, a monoclonal antibody that inhibits plasma kallikrein, in COVID‐19, we conducted a phase 2, open‐label, randomized‐controlled, proof‐of‐concept ...
Job J. Engel, Christine van Linge, W. Joost Wiersinga, Ilse J. E. Kouijzer, Quirijn de Mast, Robert‐Jan Hassing, Danique J. H. Huijbens, Helen L. Leavis, Roger Schutgens, Coen Maas, Kit C. B. Roes, Frank L. van de Veerdonk, Roger Brüggemann   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

What are the factors that determine treatment choices in patients with kidney failure: a retrospective cohort study using data linkage of routinely collected data in Wales

BMJ Open
Objectives To identify the factors that determine treatment choices following pre-dialysis education.Design Retrospective cohort study using data linkage with univariate and multivariate analyses using linked data.Setting Secondary care National Health ...
Jane Noyes, Leah McLaughlin, Gareth Roberts, Gail Williams, James Chess   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hydrogel Embedding of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Supports Extracellular Vesicle Production

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.
This study investigates the effects of 3D culture conditions on extracellular vesicle (EV) production by mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in a gelatin‐based hydrogel matrix (GelMA). The EVs from both conditions were found to have similar morphological, molecular, and functional properties, but 3D cultures produced more total EVs per volume.
Rachel K. Moen, Gabriella Faircloth, Nicole T. Marguerite, Mariachiara Conti, Ethan S. Lippmann, Jamey D. Young   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Bias and Organ Transplantation in Nepal [PDF]

, 2016
Women in Nepal are less likely to receive proper, high quality medical care than their male relatives. Live-donor kidney transplantation provides a compelling example of such disparities, as 84% of recipients are male, 75% of donors are female and most ...
Paneru, Pragya, Rasmussen, Sarah, Shrestha, Kalpana, Shrestha, Pukar C.   +3 more
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Lifetime cost-effectiveness analysis of first-line dialysis modalities for patients with end-stage renal disease under peritoneal dialysis first policy

BMC Nephrology, 2020
Background This study aimed to determine the lifetime cost-effectiveness of first-line dialysis modalities for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients under the “Peritoneal Dialysis First” policy.
Carlos K. H. Wong, Julie Chen, Samuel K. S. Fung, Maggie Mok, Yuk lun Cheng, Irene Kong, Wai Kei Lo, Sing Leung Lui, T. M. Chan, Cindy L. K. Lam   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Case of Novel Coronavirus Disease 19 in a Chronic Hemodialysis Patient Presenting with Gastroenteritis and Developing Severe Pulmonary Disease. [PDF]

, 2020
Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly infectious, rapidly spreading viral disease with an alarming case fatality rate up to 5%.
Amin, Alpesh N, Chang, Yongen, Cheng, Timmy T, Choi, Grace, Ferrey, Antoney J, Gohil, Shruti, Hanna, Ramy M, Hsieh, Lanny, Huang, Susan S, Ivaturi, Kaushik, Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar, Lau, Wei Ling, Lee, Richard A, Nguyen, Lawrence, Park, Elisa, Reddy, Uttam, Rhee, Connie M, Tantisattamo, Ekamol, Tonthat, Sam, Wang, Brian   +19 more
core   +1 more source

In-Center Hemodialysis Experiences Among Latinx Adults: A Qualitative Study

Kidney Medicine
Rationale & Objective: Latinx individuals are more likely to start and remain receiving in-center hemodialysis, over home dialysis, than non-Latinx White individuals.
Katherine Rizzolo, Colin Gardner, Claudia Camacho, Rebeca Gonzalez Jauregui, Sushrut S. Waikar, Michel Chonchol, Lilia Cervantes   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accepting or declining dialysis: considerations taken into account by elderly patients with end-stage renal disease [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Elderly patients with end-stage renal disease have to make a difficult decision whether or not to start dialysis. This study explores the considerations taken into account by these patients in decision-making regarding renal replacement ...
de Jong, P.E., Dijkstra, G.J., Franssen, C.F., Gansevoort, R.T., Izaks, G.J., Jager, K.J., Kuiper, D., Reijneveld, S.A., Visser, A.   +8 more
core   +2 more sources