Tag: ESKD
Deprivation and vascular access study prompts review of educational materials
At the recent Vascular Access Society of Britain and Ireland (VASBI) annual scientific meeting (26–27 September, Cardiff, UK), Michael Corr (Belfast City Hospital, Belfast,...
XS Innovations raises seed investment of EUR 1.1 million to accelerate...
XS Innovations has this week announced the successful closure of a EUR 1.1 million seed funding round. It states in a press release that...
Akebia Therapeutics and US Renal Care initiate VOICE trial of Vafseo...
Akebia Therapeutics and US Renal Care (USRC) have announced plans to begin a collaborative clinical trial of the recently approved Vafseo (vadadustat). The first...
Endothelial tight junctions and their role in vascular access
Nikos Giannikas and Panos Kitrou (Patras, Greece) write together about the role that endothelial tight junctions play in vascular access, evidence from previous studies,...
The role of the EVA meeting and what we are trying...
Dimitrios Karnabatidis, Konstantinos Katsanos, and Panos Kitrou (University of Patras, Patras, Greece), the directors of the Endo Vascular Access (EVA) meeting, together write about...
Kidney xenotransplantation—the time has come
Douglas J Anderson and Jayme E Locke (both Marnix E Heersink School of Medicine, Birmingham, USA) write about genetically edited pig kidney xenotransplantation, the...
Five-year data finds for IN.PACT AV DCB over plain balloon angioplasty
During the Vascular Access Masterclass session examining the question ‘We have new technology, but do we need it?’ at this year’s Charing Cross (CX)...
Most barriers to dialysis at home can be overcome “with a...
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is often foreshadowed by the dual spectre of fear of infection and peritonitis. “This happens because many nephrologists only see complications...
NKF urge for passage of new US home dialysis bill
A bipartisan bill has recently been introduced to the US House of Representatives by Representatives Carol Miller (R-WV), Marilyn Strickland (D-WA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA)—with a companion bill expected...
First-ever combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant performed in USA
NYU Langone Health has announced via press release that a team of surgeons have performed the first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig...
Outset Medical and US Renal Care announce collaboration aimed to grow...
Outset Medical and US Renal Care have announced via press release a multi-year agreement to help accelerate home haemodialysis in the USA.
According to their announcement, studies...
Significant milestones of the Alio SmartPatch™ to enable remote monitoring of...
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With one in three people living with diabetes and one in five with hypertension, the risk of chronic kidney...
World’s first successful genetically-edited pig kidney transplant performed in US
A recent attempted transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney has been successfully carried out for the first time at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in...
CKD patient outcomes affected by low screening rates in deprived areas,...
Vizient has announced the publication of its first public report on care utilisation and quality in the USA using data from Medicare's Data Sharing for...
ESKD Summit 2023: What matters to patients gains momentum with input...
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Focusing on the disease through the patient’s lens, establishing well-functioning multidisciplinary teams, to potentially enhance both the patient’s journey...
Renal Interventions 9 – US
Highlights
Patient perspectives highlighted in conversation with representatives Vivian Papageorgiou and Phil West.
Endo Vascular Access Meeting 2023 (EVA; 23–24 June, Patras, Greece) coverage...
Renal Interventions 9 – EU
Highlights
Patient perspectives highlighted in conversation with representatives Vivian Papageorgiou and Phil West.
Endo Vascular Access Meeting 2023 (EVA; 23–24 June, Patras, Greece) coverage...
Haemodiafiltration mortality risk found lower than haemodialysis
The publication in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) of new research on haemodiafiltration comes following a series of inconclusive prior studies. Lead...
Personalised exercise for dialysis patients cuts hospital admission
Patients who engage in light exercise while undergoing dialysis are physically fitter and are admitted to hospital less frequently than those who do not....
First enrolment in trial of secondary hyperparathyroidism drug for ESKD patients
Pathalys Pharma and Launch Therapeutics have announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the PATH (PTH Attenuation Trial in Hemodialysis) clinical programme,...
Improving access to kidney care for underrepresented ESKD patients
Michael Casey is a transplant nephrologist and Derek DuBay is a transplant surgeon at the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, USA). They write...
Alio receives second FDA clearance
Alio, the medical technology company behind the SmartPatch device for chronic disease, has announced its latest US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance. The...
Experts react to “compelling” 36-month IN.PACT AV Access trial data
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Robert Shahverdyan (Hamburg, Germany), Matteo Tozzi (Varese, Italy), Alexandros Mallios (Paris,...
Multidisciplinary community unites at inaugural patient-focused ESKD Summit
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“The Changing Face of a Dialysis Patient” was the central theme...
Gore acquires InnAVasc Medical
Gore has announced the acquisition of InnAVasc Medical, a privately held medical technology company focused on advancing care for patients with end-stage renal disease...
UK Renal Registry: Peritoneal dialysis climbs despite overall RRT decrease
With comprehensive UK Renal Registry (UKRR) data from 2020 set to be published by the UK Kidney Association (UKKA) imminently, Renal Interventions previews a...
The Alio SmartPatch™: Optimising dialysis patient monitoring with a wearable, non-invasive...
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Owing to the various risk factors and potential complications faced by kidney disease patients undergoing dialysis treatment, new...
Fresenius launches My Reason campaign to enrol patients in kidney-focused genomics...
Fresenius Medical Care announced today that its Global Medical Office has launched the My Reason campaign to promote patient enrolment in the company's kidney-focused genomics registry, which was...
Charmaine Lok
Equally at home on the ward seeing patients, at study sites conducting research, and travelling the world for voluntary medical missions, Charmaine Lok has...
Systematic review sheds light on “unpleasant necessity” of cannulation for haemodialysis...
A systematic review published in the Journal of Vascular Access (JVA) has illuminated haemodialysis patients’ views and experiences of arteriovenous access cannulation, concluding that...
IMPRESSION trial assessing MagicTouch AVF passes 50% enrolment
Concept Medical has shared the latest update from its IMPRESSION (Sirolimus-coated balloon angioplasty versus plain balloon angioplasty in the treatment of dialysis access dysfunction)...