Chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus, also known as uremic pruritus and in this book called ‘kidney itch’, is defined as itching suffered by...
Nephrology is one of the fastest growing specialties in medicine. Nevertheless, kidney disease is one of the most serious unmet health needs in many...
Leptospirosis is the most common zoonotic disease worldwide, involving at least 1 million patients annually. Kidney is the preferential colonization...
This publication is a record of some of the outstanding presentations given at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy...
Die Peritonealdialyse (PD) ist eine valide Nierenersatztherapie, wenn sie in ein Gesamtversorgungskonzept für Patienten mit terminaler...
The number of dialysis patients, and their ages, continues to increase globally. This creates major issues such as rising medical costs in an aging...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global health burden with associated high economic costs to the health system. Main factors are the increasing...
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a valid renal replacement therapy when incorporated in an overall integrated care programme for end-stage renal disease...
Continuous renal replacement therapies (CRRT) started off as an alternative to hemo- or peritoneal dialysis. Today's machines and techniques are the...