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Renal news roundup from AKF
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Innovation in Renal Care
The American Kidney Fund (AKF) has released new guidelines — which were developed with input from patients, health care professionals and medical experts — ...
Innovation in Renal Care
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network is removing the African American/Black race coefficient from the Kidney Donor Profile Index calculation. Consi...
Research News
Lisa Pisano, the 54-year-old patient who was the first to receive a mechanical heart pump and a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, has died. Due to compl...
Research News
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEi) or angiotensin-receptor blocker (ARB) treatment forpatients with advanced CKD reduced the risk of kidney failur...
Research News
Researchers used U.S. Military Health System data to study the reclassification of Black adults into more advanced stages of kidney disease when the 2021 Chroni...
Research News
A research letter published in the journal Kidney Medicine found that Chinese American patients in an intensive care unit at one hospital in the northeastern U....
Research News
Researchers identified two overall microbial community variation patterns linked to increased risk of all-cause mortality across kidney, heart, liver and lung t...
Policy Watch
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted expanded approval to Fresenius Medical Care's Velphoro, or sucroferric oxyhydroxide, allowing its use in...
Patient Perspective
Lisa Gee has been through dialysis and kidney transplants twice, and since then, she has been determined to raise awareness of the importance of organ donations...