Obi Umeh, MD, MSc, VP, Franchise Global Program Leader at Takeda, discusses interim results from a study investigating mezagitamab for the treatment of patients with IgA nephropathy. This…
Dana Rizk, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, discusses the approval of Fabhalta (iptacopan) for adults with IgA nephropathy. Iptacopan, a Factor B…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, first-line treatment with interferon (IFN)-alpha plus sunitinib or bevacizumab has “clinically relevant and statistically significant” survival…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a 30-year study indicate that intensive glucose control can substantially reduce the rates of retinopathy, nephropathy, and cardiovascular disease in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the general population of patients with elevated blood pressure, there is currently no evidence to support aiming for a blood pressure (BP)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that whether hemodialysis is given early or delayed has no bearing on morbidity or mortality in patients with end-stage renal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Obesity is a strong risk factor for loss of residual kidney function after initiation of dialysis, according to new data from the prospective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Acute kidney injury induced by contrast medium exposure increases the risk of serious adverse events (AEs) during the following year, prospective study findings…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis (ARAS) and impaired renal function who are receiving aggressive medical therapy, renal artery stenting offers little…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If anybody needed more hours in their day it would probably be a patient on chronic hemodialsys – spending their productive hours confined…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As a treatment for type 1 diabetes with kidney dysfunction, simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK) provides better survival than kidney transplantation alone, even if…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Assessing kidney function with both the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and with urinary albumin levels can help predict whether chronic kidney disease…
