Dialysis News

• ACIP Recommends Heplisav-B Vaccine for Adults Heplisav-B, a yeast-derived hepatitis B vaccine made with a novel adjuvant, is recommended for individuals aged 18 years and older, according to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Many Providers at Dialysis Centers Unaware of Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplantation
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• New Staging System Estimates Time to Kidney Failure in Children
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• Factors Hampering Kidney-Disease Screening Among U.S. Blacks Fear, distrust and inconvenience are some of the factors hampering efforts to implement community-based kidney-disease screening of black Americans, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018
• Exercising to Death: The Rare Risk of Rhabdo Rhabdomyolysis is a syndrome involving muscle breakdown and damage. When muscles are injured, they release their contents, including a muscle enzyme, into the bloodstream. The disorder is dangerous but rare. In one study, 22 people out of 100,000 were known to have it.
  WebMD Health News, March 2018
• Fewer Kidney Problems With IV Balanced Crystalloids vs Saline A study found lower incidence of major adverse kidney events with IV balanced crystalloids vs normal saline; expert warns results do not clear up the debate about which resuscitation fluid is better.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2018
• With Medicine Running Out, Venezuelans With Transplants Live in Fear Yasmira Castano felt she had a fresh chance at life when she received a kidney transplant almost two decades ago. The young Venezuelan was able to finish high school and went on to work as a manicurist.
  Reuters Health Information, February 2018
• Autogenous Conduits for Leg Bypass Surgery Used Less Often in Female Dialysis Patients Autogenous conduits improve patency in hemodialysis patients undergoing lower-extremity bypass surgery, but are used less often in women than in men, new research shows.
  Reuters Health Information, January 2018
• Mortality Strikingly High in ESRD Patients Post-LVAD Placement A median time to death of 16 days after device placement raises the question of overtreatment, though one researcher urges caution in such a black-and-white interpretation of the data.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2017
• Emergency-Only Dialysis Ups Deaths in Undocumented Immigrants Undocumented immigrants with end-stage renal disease who accessed hemodialysis on a emergency-only basis were more likely to die and to spend more time hospitalized, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, December 2017
• AHANo Benefit From Bicarbonate, Acetylcysteine Postangiography In the PRESERVE trial, neither intravenous sodium bicarbonate nor oral N-acetylcysteine significantly reduced adverse outcomes compared with sodium chloride or placebo.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2017
• ASNNanotechnology Poised to Transform Fistula Creation A new approach could allow interventionalists to create an arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis access in an office-based procedure, report investigators.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2017
• Sertraline Does Not Temper Depression in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease
  Reuters Health Information, November 2017
• ASNDisaster Efforts Bring Dialysis Relief to Puerto Rico Relief efforts in Puerto Rico meet the needs of dialysis patients, despite tremendous challenges in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2017
• Reuters Buys Human Remains, and Learns a Donor's Tragic Story This is the second in a series, "The Body Trade," about the virtually unregulated US market for human remains.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• ASNMENTOR Results, New Trial Design Pitches at Kidney Week Findings from a randomized comparison of rituximab and cyclosporine for membranous nephropathy will be released here at Kidney Week, along with innovative trial design ideas for the future.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• Follow-up Care for Acute Kidney Injury May Be Lacking Kidney specialists recommend follow-up care for most patients who have experienced acute kidney injury, but only a minority of patients have been getting that care, according to a Canadian study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Glecaprevir-Pibrentasvir Effective in Patients With HCV, CKD Glecaprevir-pibrentasvir produced high sustained virologic response rates regardless of the underlying HCV genotype in patients with severe chronic kidney disease and HCV infection, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• Low Serum Calcium Linked to Sudden Cardiac Arrest Risk The risk of cardiac arrest more than doubled in those with the lowest calcium levels, but it's unknown how low is too low or the benefits of higher calcium intake or calcium supplementation.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• As Harvey Exits, Water, Pain, and Need Remain Bill Russell and his neighbors in Bay City, TX, had a decision to make: Follow authorities’ advice and evacuate their town of 20,000 south of Houston, or continue to ride out Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath.
  WebMD Health News, September 2017