Treatment-resistant hypertension is common in patients with advanced kidney disease. Thiazide diuretics were thought ineffective in these patients, but new trial results show that s wrong.
For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient s immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant.
Closure of in-center dialysis facilities increases the risk of hospitalizations among patients with end-stage kidney disease compared with those not affected by closures.
Brad Rovin, MD, and Richard Furie, MD, discussed the merits of dual therapy with voclosporin or belimumab in lupus nephritis but said response rates leave a lot of room for improvement.