NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In nondiabetics, high glucose levels signal an increased risk for contrast-induced acute kidney injury during coronary angiography, new research suggests. “Although diabetes is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If asymptomatic lower pole renal calculi require intervention, percutaneous nephrolithotomy will provide a higher stone-free rate than shock wave lithotripsy, and with less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Urine dipsticks are unreliable and cost-ineffective at screening children for chronic kidney disease, investigators report in the April issue of Pediatrics. In 2007,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Kidney stones linked to melamine-tainted infant milk formula can usually be managed conservatively, Chinese authors report. For infants with renal failure, hemodialysis without…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Tenofovir nephrotoxicity can’t always be fully reversed in HIV-infected men, according to a new study. Up to 2% of patients have adverse renal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Belatacept-based immunosuppression after kidney transplantation allows for better renal function compared to cyclosporine, with similar graft and patient survival, phase III trial results…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Researchers cut short a clinical trial of the endothelin blocker avosentan in patients with diabetic nephropathy because it was linked with fluid overload…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As initial treatment of hypertension, a combination of benazepril plus amlodipine is more effective at preserving renal function compared to benazepril plus hydrochlorothiazide,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Potassium monitoring can help prevent drug-associated hyperkalemia events in patients with diabetes, according to a report in the January 20th online issue of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with hypertensive nephropathy and metabolic acidosis, alkali treatment reduces tubulointerstitial injury and slows the decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR), a…