tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70347367945835447812025-05-03T01:45:50.110+01:00We intend to report worthy news items on kidney dialysis and also on renal failure in general. Hopefully this will help suffers of kidney disease keep up to date with relevant information, such as problems caused by other medications, improvements in treatments, and anything else that takes our fancy. Which will include non-news items occasionally.Dr Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874310010339346192noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7034736794583544781.post-76378762494199115022024-09-08T21:58:00.001+01:002024-09-08T21:58:00.228+01:00

 If you live in roughly the middle of England, this news is for you!A new unit has opened at Genisis Park , South Wigston, and it's called Leicester South Dialysis Unit. It's job is to replace the facility at Leicester General Hospital.It opened on 26th August, 2024.And has all the features you'd expect for such a unit, including a section where patients can be trained in home dialysis.

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When her mother needed a new kidney, her daughter stepped in and and got tested for compatability.Now when you give someone you love a new kidney, you'd like the date to be memorable, and easy to remember as well. So when Dishna Hirani was offered two dates for the operation to donate to her mother, it was easy to choose which date to use. Because one of them was her mother's birthday. So

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It has been a hope for a long time that transplants of organs from animals to humans would one day be possible and help solve the problem of finding a donor that matched the recipient.And Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced the world's first successful transplantation of a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62 year old man with end stage kidney disease, in March 2024.Richard

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 Well, this man certainly made the right choice when he proposed to his partner 25 years ago!Donna Creed gave her kidney to her husband Darren who was suffering from polycystic kidney disease. When his medical problems got worse over the 12 years since being diagnosed, he was advised to look for a donor and started with family members. But amazingly, it was his wife who turned out to be a

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 While on holiday, famous England footballer Andy Cole was infected with a virus that attacked his kidneys. In 2015 this superb athlete suffered kidney failure and his life was at risk. In 2017 he received a transplant kidney from his nephew. This set of life-changing events inspired him to set up a fund and to donate £250,000 to charity to further research into kidney disease and associated

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At first glance most people would say they would prefer short dialysis treatment sessions. But a recent research paper says that for older people, a longer session increases how long they will survive with the disease.This was a retrospective cohort study of people who first commenced thrice-weekly haemodialysis aged ≥65 years, reported to the Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (

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A direct quote from the source articlePeople at highest risk of developing severe disease include those who are immunosuppressed (for example, as a result of chemotherapy or having had an organ transplant), or who have other conditions such as heart disease, respiratory disease, diabetes, or neurological conditions.The draft guidance means  they will have access to treatments taken either at

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 In a worrying report, research shows that Covid-19 can lead to kidney damage. Covid-19 has been studied a great deal during the pandemic and researchers are finding evidence that it cause a whole host of problems, including acute renal failure. Research reported here gives you the technical details - for those with the deep medical knowledge, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) has

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A recent news report (April 2021) claims that cycling during dialysis could dramatically improve the heart health of patients with kindey failure, and lead to significant savings for the UK's NHS.Yes, cycling DURING dialysis. Okay, on a specially adapted bicycle during regular dialysis sessions. Not going out on the road with a dialysis machine strapped to your back!The research was carried out

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The analysis tool, called KidneyIntelX has been developed by RenalytixAI and is expected to be launched in the middle of this year. It is described as a major break-through in this news article. It should help decide what treatment is best for a patient and whether they need medicine, dialysis or a transplant. So how does this sort of tool work? It's basically similar to those telephone systems

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There were a lot of people getting transplants in America in 2019. Over 24,000 in fact. And not everyone has insurance or funds to cover a transplant. But then there's the American Kidney Fund... According to this article from Yahoo! the AKF gave grants to 1,400 people to receive kidney transplants and post-transplant care. More than 60% of the people receiving these grants were from racial and

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Is one form of dialysis better than another? Should you always opt for one particular type of dialysis? This is something every patient wonders about when told they will have to have dialysis. The trouble is when you are first told you need dialysis, you probably have not considered the options until that very moment. And you wonder if you might make the wrong choice. A recent bit of research

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Recent research suggests not necessarily.  Routine monthly blood testing for prevalent patients on hemodialysis (HD) is not associated with a lower risk of death, hyperkalemia, cardiovascular (CV) events, or hospitalization compared with blood testing every 6 weeks, according to a new study.Among incident patients on HD, monthly testing was associated with an increased risk of hyperkalemia,

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I have just read a somewhat worrying (and slightly predictable) article. A report this month says that in the US, patients attending for-profit dialysis centers are less likely to get a transplant than those at nonprofit centers! This is based on a study examining nearly 1,500,000 dialysis patients over a 17 year period. So it's got a fair bit of data behind it. The link at the start of the

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We have reported on this several times in the past, and now some such devices have been validated by a contest award. But when will we see them in production and in regular use? The contest had 16 concepts submitted. The winners are invited to develop their ideas into prototypes and to compete in the second phase of the competition, in which up to three winners will be awarded $500,000 each

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The population in the Scottish Highlands is spread over a large area of the country. Giving every local hospital a dialysis unit could be an expensive solution to treat a small number of people each week. So crisis-hit NHS Highland is planning to introduce a mobile kidney dialysis unit across the region to save patients from having to travel hundreds of miles a week to Inverness for

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Recent research reports that a drug normally used to control blood sugar levels in diabetics helps to prevent or slow down kidney disease. The new study tested Invokana, a daily pill sold now to help control blood sugar, to see if it also could help prevent kidney disease when added to standard treatments. For the study, about 13,000 people with Type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease from

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This UK news item is interesting. People being treated with dialysis after kidney failure are to be offered a choice over where and what type of treatment they have. New recommendations say patients, in discussion with their clinician, can choose which type of dialysis is right for them and where they can have their treatment. There are three types of dialysis which are offered on the NHS

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A grant of $1.75 million spread over four years has been made to study how to prevent kidney damage and, ultimately, failure, caused by type 2 diabetes. The chief researcher in this project is Dr Krisztian Stadler, who has published 56 research articles which are often quoted in other scientists' work. "Kidney disease is a major complication of obesity and type 2 diabetes," Dr. Krisztian

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The two main types of dialysis are Hemodialysis, the original version, where a patient visits a clinic regularly and spends a long time hooked up to a machine and Peritoneal Dialysis which occurs overnight in the patients home, via a catheter inserted into the patient's abdomen. Peritoneal Dialysis is much more convenient for the patient, as it happens while they are asleep and doesn't require&

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Infections are common and can be fatal in patients undergoing long-term dialysis. Recent studies have shown conflicting evidence associating infection with vitamin D status or use of vitamin D and have not been systematically reviewed in this population. So a group of medical scientists took a detailed look at existing studies and carefully analysed the results. If a patient has high or normal

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We all know that some people act as anonymous altruistic kidney donors, and how amazing they are. This news item refers to how one young lady found a donor. Louise Sach was told she was in kidney failure aged 8 and wouldn't make it through adulthood without a transplant. Louise Sach, 28, had reached a stalemate in her search for a donor after being told her kidney function

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Kidney disease doesn't just affect a patient's body, it's hard on their brain too—but no one really knows to what extent. Scientists at Queens University, Canada, are conducting studies into the kidney-brain connection. Patients on dialysis are being assessed by the KINARM, a state-of-the-art robotic system developed at Queen’s University, to measure the brain effects of kidney disease. The

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A research article, available at Dove Press, discusses whether vitamin K or oral anticoagulants is the best option for patients with only mildly reduced kidney function. Here we quote directly from the article. (Data was collected from 984 patients.) A post hoc analysis of a recent trial on direct oral anticoagulants versus vitamin K antagonists showed that amongst patients with mildly

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It's nice to have the personal touch when having dialysis. Having your doctor or nurse set things up to better match your needs. But new research goes a step further than that. Researchers from TU Eindhoven have developed a microsensor that makes it possible to directly monitor and adjust the composition of kidney dialysis fluid. This is a crucial step towards patient-specific dialysis, which

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