Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Numerous conditions can lead to depression in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease. Patients should be ...

The best time for people with end-stage renal disease to begin dialysis is unclear. Recommended glomerular filtration rates (GFRs) for starting dialysis range from 10 ml/min to 12.5 ml/min, but ...

PERICARDIAL inflammation is a relatively common complication of uremia. Although its occurrence seems superficially related to the degree of renal failure the pathogenesis is still obscure. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A common challenge nephrologists encounter is deciding when to start patients on dialysis. Clear indications ...

It is clear from the available literature that much of the evidence supporting treatment recommendations for uremic bleeding comes from studies performed 25–30 years ago. At that time, medical care ...

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) usually occurs in children following an episode of diarrheal infection caused by STEC strain O157:H7, and occasionally following infection with Shigella dysenterieae or ...

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a serious renal disease, and the most common etiologic factor in the development of acute renal failure in children. Most affected children are younger than 4 years ...

Nitrogen balance was studied in 4 patients with uremia during treatment with a protein-reduced diet (20 g) supplemented with either essential amino acids and histidine or a mixture of keto analogues ...