March 19, 2009 — Proteinuria in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with level of kidney impairment (glomerular filtration rate [GFR] as measured by iohexol disappearance), cause of CKD, and race, according to the results of the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) cohort study reported in the March 18 Online First issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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Maintaining sufficient red blood cell levels is important to the physical and mental health of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in the January 2009 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that preventing anemia in kidney disease patients should be an integral part of their care.
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WARREN— Jay Menhennet won’t be making it to the polls today. Instead, he’ll be in surgery receiving a kidney transplant.
It won’t be his first transplant, however.
In February 2000, after experiencing renal failure, Menhennet’s wife, Jenny, donated a kidney to save her husband’s life.
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The intense appeals to save University Medical Center’s kidney transplant program from losing its Medicare funding have overshadowed fundamental patient safety problems revealed by inspectors.
Hospital Chief Executive Kathy Silver acknowledged failures in management of the program, even as she argued that it should remain open.
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Recent years have seen huge advances in transplant medicine, but more research is urgently needed to improve the long-term prospects of transplant patients, according to researchers, doctors and patient representatives at a meeting in Brussels, Belgium organised by the EU-funded TRIE (’Transplantation research integration in Europe’) project.
Approximately 250,000 people in Europe are living with a functional organ transplant and every year some 15,000 kidney transplants, 5,000 liver transplants, 2,000 heart transplants and 1,000 lung transplants as well as thousands of bone-marrow transplants are carried out.
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Kelsey Crider, 19, of Boulder was diagnosed with kidney failure when she was 17.
BOULDER — Twice in one year Kelsey Crider walked out the door, believing she’d never return. Both times, failed kidney transplants sent the Boulder teen back to the dialysis center for treatments.
Three times a week, Kelsey sits in a chair for four hours at the DaVita Boulder Dialysis Center, hooked up to needles and tubes attached to a machine that filters impurities from her blood and removes excess fluid. Sometimes the Front Range Community College student does homework. Other times she reads, talks to her mother or watches television.
“It’s so boring,” said Kelsey, 19, who has had seven surgeries since being diagnosed with medullary cystic kidney disease. “I get antsy.”
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study of nearly 1,500 patients treated for kidney cancer at the University of California-Los Angeles in the last 15 years indicates that patients may benefit from an individualized treatment approach.
The one-size-fits-all treatment approach traditionally used for kidney cancer should be changed based on the results of this study, the researchers say.
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SINGAPORE (AFP) — Singapore plans to amend an organ transplant law early next year so that kidney donors can receive financial compensation, The Sunday Times reported.
Under existing laws, it is illegal for donors to be given cash in return for giving up a kidney.
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LUCKNOW: If you thought Shylock lived only in Shakespearean sagas, update your info. Thousands of Shylock clones operate in the holy city of Varansi
where money lending in gullies has turned into a bigger money spinner than touting moksha and nirvana to the gullible. The low risk and high profit venture has even attracted white-collared practitioners who have launched a sub-letting culture and neither frequent drives by local police nor a suitably amended Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Money Lending Act, 1976, passed by the Assembly in March 2008 has proved to be a deterrent to the class.
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A study has found that Indigenous Australians with kidney disease are confused, poorly informed and frustrated about their illness.
Researchers from the George Institute for International Health and the Menzies School of Research interviewed 146 Indigenous and 95 non-indigenous patients with serious or end-stage kidney disease. Read the rest of this entry…