Kidney Patients Risk Heart Attacks
...isease. Doctors have known patients in end-stage renal disease have a greater risk of heart attacks. Researchers from Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston say their concern is for the 20 million Americans who have early kidney disease. That group along with the number of people with advanced kidney...Kidney Failure after Non-Kidney Transplants
...patients. Researchers write, "The risk of chronic renal failure and the need for long-term renal-replaceme...r preexisting hepatitis C were more likely to have renal failure. In this study, researchers say chronic kidney failure was associated with an increased ris...ASPIRIN MAY HELP LOWER PREGNANCY RISK
...mpsia or who had chronic hypertension, diabetes or renal disease who took a daily low dose (50 mg to 150 mg) //of aspirin were less likely to develop pre-eclampsia than were similar women who didn't take aspirin. Also, the rate of spontaneous preterm births decreased and birth weights increased with aspiri...Drugs Deter Heart Disease for Transplant Patients
...d for future cardiovascular intervention trials in renal transplantation."......e problems that can occur in patients with chronic renal failure might be alleviated by certain antioxidant...ornia, Irvine, found that rodent models of chronic renal failure// had higher levels of nitrotyrosine, a marker of oxidative damage caused by the interaction...New operation for kidney cancer
...ation for kidney cancer, called interventional-MRI renal cryosurgery. //The procedure relies on magnetic resonance imaging to guide a surgical probe while removing cancerous tissue. So high-tech is this procedure, that the surgeon could demonstrate his 60 operation to a group of colleagues in Italy using t......e problems that can occur in patients with chronic renal failure might be alleviated by certain antioxidant...ornia, Irvine, found that rodent models of chronic renal failure had higher levels of nitrotyrosine,// a marker of oxidative damage caused by the interaction......e problems that can occur in patients with chronic renal failure might be alleviated by certain antioxidant...ornia, Irvine, found that rodent models of chronic renal failure had higher levels of nitrotyrosine, a marker of oxidative damage caused by the interaction o...Moderate Use of Analgesics - Not Associated With Kidney Dysfunction
...mmon, even small increases in the relative risk of renal dysfunction could have a significant impact on rates of renal disease. Some earlier studies have suggested that regular use of popular pain killers such as aspir...Recommendations for Treatment of Blood Pressue
...re should be kept below 130/85; and, in those with renal failure or heart failure, at the lowest level tolerated.......more than 40 percent of the new cases of end-stage renal disease (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 b...