The ongoing spectre of the COVID-19 pandemic looms large and central in the minds of those planning the 2021 National Kidney Foundation’s Spring Clinical Meetings (NKF SCM21). The conference, which runs April 6-10, will feature the latest perspectives on the effects of COVID-19 on the kidneys. The sessions “include a focus on health disparities with […]
In a large cohort of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), 2.5 to 5 hours a week of moderate-intensity physical activity was the optimal amount for protection against cardiac and renal events, and improved survival, researchers report. The study led by Chou-Pin Kuo, from Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, was published […]
More than 90,000 people in the United States are awaiting kidney transplants, with wait-times that can be five, seven, even 10 or more years, but new research from a team in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital and other centers, show more options for cutting […]
SARS-CoV-2-associated acute kidney injury is not uncommon. Many hospitalized COVID-19 patients—as many as 80% of critically ill COVID-19 patients, according to a current study—develop acute kidney injury, but without requiring dialysis in most cases. Proteinuria and hematuria are present in about half the cases. Examinations of renal tissue from deceased patients show injury to the […]
