In an analysis of information on children with kidney failure who began dialysis in the United States between 1995 and 2015, the risk of death was 1.36 times higher among children with higher kidney ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Incremental dialysis may help patients with residual renal function, which can help reduce ...

Siddiqui et al. investigated the frequency of renal function recovery among 201 adults, most of whom had chronic renal failure, who were on dialysis in Scotland for more than 90 days. Residual renal ...

Initiating dialysis at a higher level of kidney function was linked to lower patient survival, however. The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue of JASN, suggest that asymptomatic children with ...

A multinational team revises the SOFA score to reflect modern organ support, validates it across diverse ICUs, and guides ...

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Some seniors with end-stage kidney failure who are too sick for a transplant probably should skip dialysis because the health trade-offs aren't worth it, a new study says. Seniors who started dialysis ...

Kidney function at 90 days after hospital discharge is associated with the long-term prognosis of patients with dialysis-dependent acute kidney injury. Clinicians should use kidney function before and ...

Fish oil supplementation markedly lowered heart and vascular complications in people receiving hemodialysis, according to a ...

Unfortunately, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common. Nearly 10 percent of Americans over 20 years old have some level of CKD. The number of people with kidney disease grows 5 percent each year, ...

The Kidney Disease Symptom Score (KDSS) has temporal stability for patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney ...