News Release 19-Aug-2024 Dialysis may not be best option Peer-Reviewed PublicationStanford Medicine image: For older adults with complex health problems, immediately starting dialysis when their kidney function falls below a standard threshold gives them about a week more of life but two more weeks in a hospital or care home, Stanford Medicine-led research has found....
David Warmflash, MD August 15, 2023 Nearly 90,000 patients in the United States are waiting for a lifesaving kidney transplant, yet only about 25,000 kidney transplants were performed last year. Thousands die each year while they wait. Others are not suitable transplant candidates. Half a million people are on dialysis, the only transplant alternative for those with kidney...
by American Society of Nephrology Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For some individuals with advanced kidney disease, dialysis may not be the optimal treatment strategy for their condition, and these patients may be better served with conservative non-dialytic management that focuses on quality of life and symptom control. Investigators recently examined the differential impact of conservative...
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by Karen B. Roberts, University of Delaware According to the National Kidney Foundation, more than 37 million people are living with kidney disease. The kidneys play an important role in the body, from removing waste products to filtering the blood. For people with kidney disease, dialysis can help the body perform these essential functions when...
New research suggests that people who undergo dialysis treatment for end-stage kidney disease tend to be overly optimistic about their life expectancy, relative to national mortality data for that patient population. This optimism might limit the benefit of planning for a late-stage illness and fuel the aggressive end-of-life care that these patients often receive, the authors said. JAMA Internal Medicine...
Study results can help inform patient decisions, physician choice of treatment for end-stage kidney disease HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL Older adults with end-stage kidney disease who start dialysis–a treatment that keeps their blood free of toxins–appear to die at higher rates than previously thought, according to findings of a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System...
By Kate Bass, B.Sc.Reviewed by Kate Anderton, B.Sc. Research published this week describes how lab-grown blood vessels were transformed into living tissue when grafted into dialysis patients needing replacement blood vessels. The recipients’ cells effectively infiltrated the artificial blood vessels, so they became like the patients’ native blood vessels. There are many conditions for which...
Implant that mimics functions of the human kidney could begin trials this year It could be a life-saving option for patients with chronic kidney disease If successful it would save patients from dialysis or needing a transplant A coffee cup-sized implant that mimics the functions of the human kidney could be a life-saving option for patients...
Last April, Gerry O’Neill had a CT scan which revealed a swelling on her kidney Doctors soon discovered she had cancer, and needed dialysis and a transplant Following the new op she is back to health, and wishes to resume work as a carer Kidney cancer patients may need the organ removed and can...
