Clinicians should continue to monitor UACR or UPCR in at-risk children. During periods of rapid growth such as puberty, children with low GFR may show rapid decline in kidney function. Puberty is a ...

Finding a match for an organ donation can be difficult, but that wasn’t the case for Isabelle ‘Izzy’ Warrington as her own ...

Now 25, Pleskoff, a Seattle native who has endured more than 30 kidney stones, is part of a troubling trend in pediatric ...

One carried his blood to an artificial kidney that removed ... which meant about 18 months of dialysis. Andrew is the first pediatric patient at Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) who had active ...

CKD is responsible for chronic inflammation and oxidative stress and results in the build-up of uremic toxins, which ...

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A disabled man died after an air bubble got into a vein when his dialysis line detached from the machine. Norfolk Coroner's ...

Too often, patients with chronic kidney disease get diagnosed too late – if at all. Addressing risk factors early can stave ...

Medicare covers dialysis and most treatments that involve end stage renal disease (ESRD) or kidney failure. When your kidneys no longer work naturally, your body enters into ESRD. Dialysis is a ...

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