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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BOSTON — Although sodium profiling remains controversial in kidney care, a speaker at the National Kidney ...

Although elevated levels of urea and creatinine define the progression and severity of AKI, their accumulation parallels that of less well-characterized metabolites that mediate the toxic effects of ...

Every day, the human kidneys clean about 1,500 liters of blood by producing approximately 1–2 liters of urine. Thereby, the body gets rid of excess water and toxic waste products of the metabolism or ...

Chronic kidney disease stages IV and V patients may be hyper-, normo- or hypotensive (Figure 1). Three recent major achievements have offered a better understanding of patients' intolerance to plasma ...

In the past, acute kidney injury (AKI) used to be called acute renal failure or insufficiency. Among the most common causes of acute renal failure is so-called prerenal azotemia, which occurs when ...

A common genetic variant predicted poor outcomes from peritoneal dialysis, suggesting a potential factor for patient selection and treatment, researchers found. Variants in AQP1, the gene that encodes ...

Long-term peritoneal dialysis can lead to morphological and functional changes in the peritoneum. Although the range of morphological alterations is known for the peritoneal dialysis population as a ...

Residual renal function has been reported to be a major determinant of peritoneal dialysis (PD) technique survival for patients with end-stage kidney disease. Anuria leads to increases in PD ...

Hemodialysis (HD) is a life-saving treatment for more than 1,700,000 patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage V. Every year the HD population becomes increasingly older (average age: 75 years) ...