Department of Veterans Affairs,Health Services Research&Development Service(HSR&D),Precision Monitoring to Transform Care(PRISM)Quality Enhancement Research Initiative(QUERI;QUE 15-280);Hypertension Improvement Pilot Intervention in Post-Stroke Veterans(PPO 15-404);Improving Cerebrovascular Risk Factor Management in Post-Stroke Veterans(CDA 11-262).
Introduction Whether obtaining the more intensive goal systolic blood pressure(SBP)of<130mm Hg,rather than a less intensive SBP goal of<140mm Hg poststroke/transient ischaemic attack(TIA)is associated with incremental...
Objective To investigate the clinical features of patients with maintenance hemodialysis(MHD)infected with SARS-CoV-2 and analyze the risk factors of death after SARS-CoV-2 infection,and to provide clinical data for e...
Context: Acute kidney injury (AKI) in intensive care unit (ICU) is common and associated with very high mortality. In Togo, a tropical country with limited resources and only one nephrology department in the north, ac...
Objective To investigate the association of monocyte to lymphocyte ratio(MLR)with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease(CVD)mortality in patients with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis(CAPD).Methods I...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.82200820,81970599 and 82170737);Guangzhou Science and Technology Project(No.202201011483);Key Laboratory of National Health Commission,and Key Laboratory of Nephrology,Guangdong Province,Guangzhou,China(Nos.2002B60118 and 2020B1212060028);and 5010 Clinical Program of Sun Yat-Sen University(No.2017007);and National Key Research and Development Project of China(No.2021YFC2501302).
Background: The clinical importance of hypokalemia is likely underrecognized in Chinese dialysis patients, and whether its clinical effect was mediated by serum albumin is not fully elucidated. This study aimed to exp...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82000702).
To the Editor:Peritoneal dialysis(PD)is a well-established renal replacement therapyin end-stage renal disease(ESRD)patients.Despite significant advances in technologies in recent decades,the mortality of PD patients ...
Hypercalcemia is a common disorder that can cause acute kidney failure, neurological damage up to coma, arrhythmia and cardiac arrest. The management of hypercalcemia is based on intravenous hydration with normal sali...
BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease(CKD)is a common medical condition that is increasing in prevalence.Existing published evidence has revealed through regression analyses that several clinical characteristics are assoc...
supported by a grant of Sichuan Medical Association Scientific Research Project(No.2017SHD001).
Hemodialysis(HD)is a crucial renal replacement therapy for patients with end-stage renal disease.Despite improvements in dialysis technology,mortality for maintenance HD(MHD)patients remains high.To improve the qualit...
the National Key Research and Development Program (2016YFC0906101);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81774069, 81570614);the Guangdong Science Foundation of China (2017A050503003, 2017B020227006);Foundation of Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nephrology (2014B030301023);the Guangdong Committee of Science and Technology (2014B020212020, 2017A050503003, 2017B020227006);the Guangzhou Municipal Programme of Science and Technology (2014Y2-00543, 201704020167).
Despite the widespread use of chronic dialysis for end-stage renal disease (ESRD), there is no consensus on the optimal timing of initiating renal replacement therapy. Over the past decade, a worldwide trend toward in...