Dialysis News

• Aid Being Deployed to Morocco in Partnership With Local NGOs The 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Morocco is one of the worst catastrophes the country has seen.
  Medscape Medical News, September 22, 2023
• ESC 2023 Dietary Nitrates Reduce Contrast-Induced Nephropathy in ACS The NITRATE-CIN trial also found a halving of long-term major cardiovascular and kidney outcomes, with the inorganic nitrates found in beetroot juice.
  Medscape Medical News, August 29, 2023
• Real-World Subcutaneous ICD Use: A Hopeful Treatment Option? Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillators have demonstrated promising results but not been widely adopted in Brazil.
  Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2023
• Better Than Dialysis? Artificial Kidney Could Be the Future Researchers have developed an implantable bioartificial kidney that could help patients with end-stage kidney disease lead a better quality of life.
  Medscape Medical News, August 15, 2023
• Experts Call for Early Screening for Chronic Kidney Disease Nephrologists and family doctors have roles to play in identifying patients with chronic kidney disease, which should be detected earlier, according to experts.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2023
• Promise in Chronic Kidney Disease for 3 New Agents Agents from three novel drug classes showed safety and hints of efficacy in patients with varying stages of chronic kidney disease in three phase 2 studies at the European Renal Association Congress.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2023
• Mild-to-Moderate Kidney Injury Doesn't Worsen CKD Contrary to current conventional wisdom, patients with chronic kidney disease who develop mild or moderate acute kidney injury have only a small subsequent worsening of kidney function.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2023
• Family Docs Provide Most Care for Several Chronic Diseases Family and primary care physicians are a major source of care for managing chronic diseases but are often left out of the creation of clinical guidelines.
  Medscape Medical News, July 03, 2023
• Modest Declines in Kidney Function Linked to Adverse Events A large study suggests that younger adults with modest reductions in kidney function are at heightened risk of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular events, and kidney failure.
  Medscape Medical News, June 29, 2023
• TAVI Turmoil: Did A Nurse Perform TAVI in the UK? An advanced nurse practitioner in the UK was congratulated on Twitter for heading up a complete TAVI procedure ― docs on both sides of the Atlantic roared back.
  Medscape Medical News, June 29, 2023
• EU Must Prevent Medical Devices for Children From Disappearing Brussels must act to prevent essential medical devices for children from disappearing in the European Union in the next year, the European Academy of Paediatrics warned on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, June 27, 2023
• New Dialysis Technique Boosts Survival in Kidney Failure High-dose hemodiafiltration led to substantially better survival of patients with end-stage kidney disease compared with conventional hemodialysis after a median 30 months in a large, prospective study.
  Medscape Medical News, June 16, 2023
• Sudan's War Exacts Deadly Toll on Dialysis Patients Kidney dialysis patients are dying and dead bodies have been left to decompose in a morgue and in city streets as Sudan's war rages on, despite efforts by volunteers and aid workers to keep critical healthcare running.
  Reuters Health Information, June 14, 2023
• Novartis Buys Chinook in Race to Treat Rare Kidney Disease Novartis said it has agreed to acquire US biotech firm Chinook Therapeutics to boost its late-stage drug development line-up, raising the stakes in the race for a rare kidney disease treatment.
  Reuters Health Information, June 12, 2023
• SCAI 2023 Ticagrelor, DAPT Equal in Preventing Repeat Revascularization After percutaneous coronary intervention, ticagrelor alone or with aspirin are equally effective in preventing repeat revascularization at one year in a post-hoc TWILIGHT analysis.
  MDedge News, May 30, 2023
• CKD Screening in All Adults Found Cost-Effective The new evidence follows the release earlier this year of a draft research plan to reassess the potential role for such screening in asymptomatic adults in the United States.
  MDedge News, May 24, 2023
• SCAI 2023 Distal Radial Access Doesn't Harm Hand Function at 1 Year A head-to-head comparison of distal vs proximal radial artery access for coronary interventions found no difference in hand function a year later.
  MDedge News, May 23, 2023
• SCAI Drafts Guidance on Renal Denervation for Hypertension The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions releases draft guidance on the adoption of renal denervation for hypertension in anticipation of regulatory approval.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2023
• EuroPCR 2023 Redo TAVR Outcomes Rival First Intervention A large transcatheter aortic valve transplant (TAVR) database shows a second procedure performs about as well as native TAVR.
  MDedge News, May 17, 2023
• From Burned Out Oncologist to Published Novelist Jennifer Lycette, MD, discusses her new book on an AI-dominated future and what motivated her to write it.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2023