Dialysis

Patients with end-stage kidney disease may be at higher risk for hypoglycemia, with a disproportionate effect on young, Black and female patients, according to published data.

Ardelyx Inc. is leading a lawsuit against CMS about plans by the agency to include oral-only phosphate-lowering therapies into the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System by January 2025.

Proposed changes released earlier this month by CMS to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2025 should have a minimal impact on payments to nephrologists, according to a summary by the Renal Physicians Association.

A text message-based survey was highly acceptable and had moderate reach for patients on dialysis, according to published data, though response rates were lower in certain groups.

In 2019, former President Donald Trump signed the Advancing American Kidney Health initiative.

The frequency and risk of AKI in patients hospitalized with inflammatory bowel disease is higher compared with admissions with collagen vascular diseases and from the general population, a recently published study shows.

Dietary patterns may vary significantly in patients with different stages of chronic kidney disease, according to an investigation of food group intake among patients in a United Kingdom study.

To get fellows more engaged in the prospect of nephrology as a specialty, Steven Fishbane, MD, and Hitesh H. Shah, MD, said they had to think outside the box.

For more than 2 decades, nephrologists and patients have recognized the key role nephrology advanced practice providers have played in the care of patients with chronic kidney disease.

Treatment with sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors significantly lowered risks for lupus nephritis, dialysis and kidney transplant for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and type 2 diabetes, according to data.