Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dialysate sodium of 138 mmol/L or lower was associated with higher mortality. Mortality risk was lower among ...

USA: Muscle cramps are common in stable end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on hemodialysis and often lead to poor ...

Using a cooler dialysate during maintenance hemodialysis didn't provide any cardiovascular (CV) benefits, according to the cluster-randomized MyTEMP trial. In the study of 84 dialysis centers in ...

April 22, 2010 (Orlando, Florida) — Dialysis bloodlines designed to deliver higher blood flow result in a lower dialysate dose than standard tubing, according to a crossover study presented here at ...

Selected pediatric patients had baseline hypertension, a predialytic serum sodium of 130 mmol/L or higher, and a low incidence of intradialytic events. Use of a low dialysate sodium concentration ...

In a study, use of “high” dialysate calcium of 3.5 mEq/L in new hemodialysis patients was associated with poor outcomes. WASHINGTON—High dialysate calcium (DCa) is a risk factor for all-cause ...

Dialysis is a life-sustaining therapy for hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide with kidney failure. However, dialysis care is currently reliant on expensive and inefficient filtration ...

November 24, 2010 (Denver, Colorado) — Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the most common cause of death among patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on hemodialysis; it occurs at a rate 30 times ...

The private sector has been encouraged to partner government to produce the consumables needed for the treatment of kidney disease, in order to make them more affordable and easy to access. The Vice ...