Sentences with phrase «of dialysis patients»

It stresses her ability to understand the particular needs of dialysis patients and the dialysis process through skills such as administering treatment and recognizing kidney problems.

Individuals undergoing dialysis can experience toxic build - up of these protein - bound compounds (namely indoxyl sulfate and p - cresol), which are linked to increased infections, cardiovascular disease and mortality of dialysis patients.

Between 10 and 30 per cent of dialysis patients in France carry the hepatitis C virus compared to 1 per cent of the general population.

In 2015, 87,538 patients with end - stage renal disease died while on dialysis (16.3 percent of all dialysis patients are awaiting kidney transplants), and 18,805 kidney transplantations were performed that same year.

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Since massive Hurricane Maria struck in September and knocked out the dialysis center on the tiny satellite island of Vieques, more than a dozen patients needing treatment now must fly several times a week to the main island.

FMC had bought Sound Inpatient to build up a so - called care coordination business to expand into other types of therapy that kidney dialysis patients typically need.

DaVita teammates far and wide showed up to help support any dialysis patient that could make it in for lifesaving treatment, including dozens of patients from neighboring clinics.

Several of my fellow dialysis patients have these blankets.

Better ways of preventing foot problems in dialysis patients with diabetes could reduce the 100 or so associated amputations that take place every week in the UK, according to Diabetes UK - funded research being presented this week at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Lisbon.

Twenty patients with kidney failure, for example, showed levels of ammonia and acetone more than 10 times that of healthy controls, and the researchers could watch those levels fall back to normal as the patients received dialysis treatment.

«Patients on dialysis are living longer and equally positive, survival rates have steadily improved among recipients of both living and deceased donor kidney transplants.»

Home dialysis offers patients more flexibility and convenience, allowing for an improved quality of life.

Patients with diabetes and suffering from acute kidney injury (AKI), proteinuria and uncontrolled blood sugar experience a sharp reduction in the number of years they have healthy renal function before being forced onto dialysis, according to researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

«Blood pressure medications reduce stroke, heart attack in peritoneal dialysis patients: New study finds a 16 percent reduction in cardiovascular events with the use of ACEIs and ARBs.»

«While randomized clinical trials are needed to test whether this is a causal relationship, these findings indicate doctors should consider using or re-starting ACEIs and ARBs as first - line blood pressure medications for patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis,» said Jenny I. Shen, MD, an LA BioMed researcher and corresponding author of the study.

«The majority of patients with chronic kidney disease, particularly those in the more advanced stages who require dialysis, exhibited some degree of loss of their sense of smell, which correlated with reduced nutritional status,» says Teodor Paunescu, PhD, of the MGH Division of Nephrology, corresponding author of the study.

In patients with chronic kidney disease who are not on dialysis, ACEIs and ARBs slow the progression of diabetic nephropathy and reduce cardiovascular risk.

For this reason, Avrum Gillespie, MD (Temple University School of Medicine) and his colleagues looked for disparities in dialysis clinics and included patients both potentially eligible and ineligible for receiving a transplant.

In the current study, McAllister's team implanted them into 10 kidney dialysis patients in Argentina and Poland, all of whom had suffered previous graft failures.

For the purpose of this replacement therapy, the patient's blood is purified using filters, in a process similar to dialysis, and then it is reinjected into the patient via an infusion drip; alternatively, it is replaced with a blood substitute such as albumin.

Previous studies of their effectiveness in patients with end - stage renal disease produced mixed results, leading researchers to conduct the review of records of all U.S. patients who had initiated peritoneal dialysis from 2007 to 2011.

The risk of higher potassium levels is minimized after patients have transitioned to peritoneal dialysis, but doctors often don't resume the medication even though it can usually be re-started safely.»

Two classes of blood pressure medications, angiotensin - converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), are associated with a 16 % lower risk of strokes, heart attacks and death in patients with end - stage renal disease who are undergoing peritoneal dialysis, a new study in the journal, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, dialysis, a new study in the journal, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Dialysis Transplantation, reports.

Patients whose dialysis centers distributed a «dialysis emergency packet» — which includes information on a patient's medications, dialysis schedule, comorbid conditions, and geographical / contact information for dialysis centers — after the storm were more likely to later have copies of their medical records stored at home.

Many of these patients undergo expensive and inconvenient dialysis treatment while waiting.»

«Many dialysis patients are unprepared for natural disasters: Study finds patients» disaster preparedness lacking in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.»

It is disturbing to enter the tribe's newly renovated dialysis clinic, which treats three shifts of patients each day, and see the young bodies as well as the elderly hooked up to the machines and their pale, drawn faces while their blood is cleansed.

The findings suggest that the presence of sickle cell trait may explain, at least in part, prior observations of greater doses of anemia medications administered to African - American dialysis patients relative to Caucasian patients.

The investigators also found that sickle cell trait was slightly more common among dialysis patients, present in 10 % of study participants compared with 6.5 % to 8.7 % in the general African - American population.

The answers, I learned, lay in the grinding poverty and entrenched corruption of India, the desperation of patients on dialysis, and the transnational nature of the black market transplant business — which, though dominated by the kidney exchange, includes livers and hearts as well.

That paper reported that two - thirds of Type 2 diabetic men with chronic kidney disease have low testosterone levels and that among patients on dialysis, a remarkable 90 percent have low testosterone.

She also noted that patients on dialysis often experience many serious adverse medical events, many of which require hospitalization, and that ferric citrate was linked with fewer of these events compared with currently available phosphorus - binding medications.

In a few years, dialysis machines with mini livers inside could be used to clean the blood of patients who have been poisoned or are waiting for a transplant.

Michelle Hladunewich, MD (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, in Toronto) and her colleagues assessed the effects of such intensive dialysis on pregnancy outcomes by comparing patients from Toronto with that from the United States.

Researchers back then found that exposure to aluminum caused rabbits» brains to develop nerve cell damage — thought to be a precursor to Alzheimer's at the time — and long - term dialysis patients with high levels of the metal developed dementia.

Yet, a new study conducted by Mayo Clinic and the University of Michigan shows that only one - third of patients who ultimately receive a living donor kidney transplant receive it pre-emptively (i.e., before starting dialysis).

«Past studies and patient data have shown that we can improve a person's quality of life and chance of surviving end - stage renal disease if we can avoid or minimize the amount of time they spend on dialysis,» says Ankit Sakhuja, M.B.B.S., a graduate of Mayo Clinic Renal Transplant Fellowship.

For example, the authors suggest that hepatitis C - positive kidneys should be offered to uninfected patients who have a high risk of health deterioration if they continue dialysis — including elderly patients or those with serious co-existing conditions, such as cardiovascular disease — disadvantageous blood types or other conditions that would mean many years of waiting for an appropriate hepatitis C - negative kidney to become available.

In human trials, researchers remove some of patients» T cells through a process similar to dialysis and then engineer them in a laboratory to add the gene for the CAR so that the new receptor is expressed in the T cells.

During a median follow - up of seven months, 20,152 patients (70.7 percent) required long - term dialysis and 5,696 (20 percent) died before progressing to ESRD (end - stage renal disease).

«Some potential impacts of reaching this goal are that patients might opt more for home dialysis options, and more patients may be able to start their preferred option in a non-urgent manner and not require admission to hospital to start dialysis.»

The researchers» analysis revealed that opioid - related ICU admissions increased an average of more than half a percent each year over the seven - year study period and that patients admitted to ICUs as a result of overdose required increasingly intensive care, including high - cost renal replacement therapy or dialysis.

Researchers in Taiwan examined the association between ACEI / ARB use and the risk of long - term dialysis and death in a nationwide group of 28,497 patients in a study by Ta - Wei Hsu, M.D., of the National Yang - Ming University Hospital, and colleagues.

But most large clinical trials of ACEI / ARB exclude patients with the most advanced stage of CKD predialysis, perhaps out of concern that the drugs can cause renal failure and the need for dialysis, so it remains unclear whether that therapy is effective in patients with advanced CKD, according to the study background.

Although the number of renal failure patients on dialysis has been increasing, and has become a social problem, opportunities for renal transplant have been limited.

Investigators led by Suma Prakash, MD, FRCPC, MSc (Case Western Reserve University) wondered whether a model called the «behavioral stage of change» model, which was originally used to help people quit smoking, might help patients with chronic kidney disease take action and make decisions about their dialysis options.

This response prevents patients from having a successful kidney transplant and they often remain on dialysis for years with diminished quality and length of life.

While the alert system did not improve outcomes, in a subset of patients it did increase interventions, including more renal consultations and dialysis.

PATIENTS who undergo kidney dialysis at some French clinics risk contracting hepatitis C from contaminated dialysis machines, warns a report from the Inspector General of Social Affairs.