Tag: dialysis patients
More education for cannulating staff needed to ensure advances in dialysis...
Dialysis access has seen an enormous multiplication of options for dialysis patients; specialised fistulas, endovascular fistulas, and new graft materials. This has brought the...
Higher risk of all-cause mortality found in female patients after starting...
Compared with male patients, female patients have been found to have a higher risk of all-cause mortality in the first five years post-dialysis initiation—a...
Standardised definitions are required before frailty can be routinely assessed in...
Earlier this year, a retrospective study published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases came to the conclusion that “frailty may be useful for...
Fistula, graft or catheter—first and foremost, dialysis patients want an access...
“Catheters are not nearly as bad as we make them out to be.” This was one of the salient messages delivered by Theodore Saad...
Aisha Shaikh
Aisha Shaikh’s career in general and interventional nephrology has seen her assume leading roles in vascular access clinics, dialysis units and transplant centres alike,...
Physicians hear global patient perspectives about life on dialysis
From insights on living with different treatment modalities, to problems created by poor physician-patient communication and long-term psychological challenges, kidney care physicians heard a...
Air pollution exposure may heighten risk of heart disease among US...
In a retrospective cohort study published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD), researchers have found that US adults receiving haemodialysis who are exposed...
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...
Xeltis announces “promising outcomes” in restorative graft trials following EU financing
Xeltis has announced promising initial outcomes from two key vascular trials involving its restorative graft technologies.
According to the company, more than 350 successful dialysis...
DaVita Clinical Research study indicates mRNA COVID-19 vaccines effective in dialysis...
Dialysis patients who received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines had a lower risk of COVID-19 diagnosis post-vaccination, and were less likely to be hospitalised or die...
ASN Kidney Week: Research uncovers why dialysis and transplant patients are...
People with kidney failure who are on dialysis or who have received a kidney transplant face a higher risk of dying from COVID-19—and new...
New vascular access handbook intends to provide dialysis patients with answers...
At the 12th Congress of the Vascular Access Society (VAS; 6–9 April 2021, online), Ramon Roca-Tey, senior consultant in nephrology at the Fundación Sanitaria...
Fresenius Medical Care North America announces three key clinical leadership appointments
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) has announced three key clinical leadership appointments to help drive priorities, including improving patient outcomes, adopting connected health technologies...
Significant mortality increase seen after home haemodialysis failure compared to continued...
Failure of home haemodialysis (HHD) treatment, defined as a return to in-centre haemodialysis (ICHD), has been associated with a “significant increase” in mortality when...
Nationwide survey indicates hesitancy among US dialysis patient groups over COVID-19...
A nationwide survey distributed among 150 randomly selected dialysis facilities in the USA has found that a “substantial proportion” of patients receiving in-centre haemodialysis...
Diaverum launches 2021 travel guide for dialysis patients
Diaverum, a global renal care service provider, has launched its first ever holiday dialysis travel guide in an effort to “empower renal patients worldwide...