Nephrology News

Young people with kidney disease prioritized outcomes that were most relevant to their daily life and that had immediate impact, whereas their caregivers gave greater importance to long-term health outcomes, according to published findings.

A risk model accurately categorized patients with an inpatient episode of acute kidney injury into clinically distinct groups according to likelihood of either death or recovery of kidney function and ability to discontinue dialysis after hospital discharge, according to a published study.

Patients with a kidney transplant who lose immunosuppressive drug coverage through Medicare before and after the scheduled 3 year end to eligibility show a much higher rate of graft failure than those who have continued coverage, a new study shows.

Forty percent of older patients with ESKD experienced functional decline within 6 months after initiating dialysis, according to a recently published study. Researchers also observed an increase in caregiver burden concurrent with the initiation.

Although worsening frailty impacted older patients with ESKD similarly whether treated with dialysis or conservative management, certain quality of life measures did improve with dialysis, according to a study published in the Clinical Kidney Journal.

Compared with living kidney donors aged 50 years or older without hypertension, those with hypertension had an elevated risk for ESKD, according to a recently published study.

Patients who maintained employment 6 months prior to initiating dialysis had a lower risk for death and a higher likelihood of receiving a kidney transplant than those who left their jobs, according to a new study. Likewise, not-for-profit dialysis centers offered patients the best chance of maintaining employment through their dialysis treatments.

BOSTON — Patients with HIV were less likely to be placed on the kidney transplant waitlist than patients without HIV, according to research presented at the American Transplant Congress. They also experienced longer wait-times from evaluation to listing.

Examining small-molecule metabolites in the blood may serve as an effective alternative to kidney biopsy for the identification of diabetic kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to research presented at the American Physiological Society/American Society of Nephrology conference.

BOSTON — Female kidney transplant recipients who conceived between the ages of 18 and 25 years had higher rates of rejection and graft loss, as well as higher serum creatinine post-pregnancy, than women who were older at the age of conception, according to a speaker at the American Transplant Congress.