Renal Failure

Treatment with dapagliflozin significantly reduced renal failure, cardiovascular death or hospitalization for heart failure, and prolonged survival among adults with chronic kidney disease with and without type 2 diabetes, study data show.

Men hospitalized with HF with preserved ejection fraction experienced elevated risk for 1-year all-cause mortality compared with women, researchers reported.

Adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before age 30 years are more likely to develop renal failure over time compared with those with a shorter diabetes duration, according to a database analysis published in Diabetes Care.

Leela V. Raju, MD, clinical associate professor at NYU Langone, and Sonya Dhar, MD, clinical instructor of ophthalmology at NYU Langone, discuss being deployed to help care for patients with COVID-19.

Low- and high-volume hospitals that performed transcatheter aortic valve replacement for bicuspid aortic valves had similar rates of in-hospital and 30-day outcomes, researchers reported.

Tacrolimus maintenance over 5 years is well-tolerated and effective among patients with lupus nephritis, according to data published in The Journal of Rheumatology.

Patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction who had a baseline and mean achieved systolic BP between 120 mm Hg and 129 mm Hg had the lowest risk for CV and other outcomes compared with higher systolic BP, according to new analysis of the PARAGON-HF trial.

An analysis of the ongoing SAGE-AF trial revealed that approximately 23% of geriatric patients with atrial fibrillation and prescribed a direct oral anticoagulant received inappropriate dosing.

Nearly 1 in 10 patients are readmitted to the hospital multiple times within 180 days post-PCI and nearly one-quarter of those with multiple readmissions return to the hospital for the same cause each time, according to research published in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions.

QT-prolonging medications are associated with an increased risk for sudden cardiac death, but research published in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that this risk was specifically linked to nonarrhythmic causes.