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Is Diabetes the Leading Cause of Kidney Failure in India

... (ESRD)each year. People with ESRD require regular dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive. Almost 25% of patients suffering from diabetes will get kidney problems. Scientists know that high levels of blood sugar and hypertension (high blood pressure) increase the risk of people with diabetes developing...

Angiotensin-II-receptor blockers - Treat kidney failure

...sease. This is equivalent to delaying the need for dialysis or transplantation by two years. The second trial involved researchers in Chicago who found that the progression of kidney disease or death was reduced by around 20 per cent in patients on irbesartan. Even those with advanced disease could benefit,...

New viewpoint on Hypertension

...ed a study covered over 30,000 patients undergoing dialysis for kidney disease. They measured pulse pressures and correlated this information with which patients died during the following year. High pulse pressure - rather than high blood pressure itself - turned out to be a risk factor for increased mortal...

Recognizing heart risk in dialysis patients

...ests could be a useful way of recognizing those on dialysis who are at high risk of a cardiac event and hence can be helped to avoid such happenings....

New cure for TPP - a rare blood disease

... called plasmapheresis, which is similar to kidney dialysis where the blood is replaced with healthy blood. However, the patient who underwent the new treatment did not respond to the standard treatment and was subjected to immune suppression with two drugs - rituximab and cyclophosphamide. Researchers said t...

Easier Dialysis for Kids

..., up to 5,000 children in the United States are on dialysis for kidney failure. Each year, as many as 1,000 more develop kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a transplant. Now a new device makes dialysis a little easier on young patients and their famili...

Kidney Failure after Non-Kidney Transplants

... nearly 29 percent eventually required maintenance dialysis or a kidney transplant. The risk of kidney failure differed according to the type of transplant originally received. Nearly 7 percent of heart-lung transplant patients developed kidney failure, while nearly 22 percent of intestine transplant patients...

Kidney Patients Risk Heart Attacks

...he number of people with kidney failure treated by dialysis is expected to surpass 650,000 by the year 2010. From these findings, the researchers urge all doctors to be aware that kidney patients fall into the highest risk category for cardiovascular disease. The American Heart Association also recommends p...

Kidney Patients Risk Heart Attacks

...he number of people with kidney failure treated by dialysis is expected to surpass 650,000 by the year 2010. From these findings, the researchers urge all doctors to be aware that kidney patients fall into the highest risk category for cardiovascular disease. The American Heart Association also recommends ph...

More Patients Going In For Home Dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis involves surgically placing a soft plastic tube or...o weeks and are then able to perform the 30-minute dialysis themselves from the comfort of their home. Hemodialysis patients can spend up to four hours, three t...

Choice Of Treatment Increases Risk Of Death In Kidney Disease

...e increased risk of death if they choose the wrong dialysis option. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University...d-stage kidney disease (ESRD), choosing peritoneal dialysis over hemodialysis increases their risk of dying by 50 percent. The findings, to be published in th...

Geriatric Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease May Not Be Treated Properly

...dicare recipients with CKD who eventually required dialysis to replace lost kidney function. Records were reviewed to evaluate the patients' routine medical care in the two years before they started dialysis. The results showed important shortcomings in general health and CKD care. Many diabetic patients wit...

In The Habit Of Taking Painkillers For Your Chronic Headache? Time To Switch Over

...much as 20 percent of all kidney disease requiring dialysis or transplants. Acetaminophen, aspirin and ibuprofen are the three most commonly used drugs for chronic headaches and arthritis. Older women taking acetaminophen daily (> 500 mg) were 93 percent more likely to develop hypertension than those not...

Complications In Kidney Failure Patients Linked To Heparin

...st be used to prevent clotting of the blood in the dialysis machine in order to safely perform hemodialysis. At this time, there are no other widely used alternatives to heparin. The results of this analysis, if confirmed by others, might stimulate the search for better anticoagulants that can be used in hemo...

Small Kidney Malfunctions Can Increase The Risk Of Deaths

... on severe reductions in kidney function requiring dialysis or on patients with specific risk factors such as heart surgery. The new results suggest that while major AKI is relatively rare, modest AKI affects perhaps 13 percent of hospitalized adults. Patients with AKI are at increased risk of dying in the ho...

US Kidney Failure Rates show Stabilization After 20-Year Climb

...icians. In 2003, nearly 537,000 people received dialysis or a kidney transplant. The cost to Medicare was $18.1 billion, with another $9.2 billion borne by private insurers and patients. Another 10 million people in the United States have earlier kidney disease; most don't know they have it, let alone that...

Protein Carbonyl Level Causes Oxidative Protein Damage In Diabetics

...ed level of antioxidants in diabetic patients. The dialysis procedure contributes to oxidative stress. An incr...n all patient groups relative to the controls. The dialysis procedure caused an additional increase in PCO levels in DHD patients before and after dialysis comp...

Kidney failure shows a tendency to run in families

...has now shown that approximately one-fourth of all dialysis patients have a close relative on dialysis. What...existing disorder or eliminate the need for future dialysis or renal transplantation. The study was based on dialysis patients in North Carolina, South Caroli...

Plasma Exchange Of No Use In Multiple Myeloma

...his procedure would eventually reduce the need for dialysis in multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells..... It also had no effect on the prevailing death or dialysis rates. The scientists are now hoping that the treatment guidelines would be changed after the find...

Both Kidneys Robbed From A Poor Rickshaw Driver In Bihar

...ants. "Surendra had undergone a painful round of dialysis for several days. There was scant hope of his survival, as both his kidneys had been removed, and he finally died," said a hospital official here on Saturday. A police complaint was lodged against Gupta, who runs a private clinic in Mahnar in Vaish...

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