Kidney Therapy Articles & Analysis
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Consistent with previous data indicating various benefits of rivaroxaban over VKAs on kidney outcomes, XARENO also revealed that Xarelto was associated with a reduced risk of progression to CKD stage 5 or the initiation of chronic kidney replacement therapy. ...
ByBayer AG
Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. ("ApolloMed," and together with its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, the "Company") (NASDAQ: AMEH), a leading physician-centric, technology-powered healthcare company focused on enabling providers in the successful delivery of value-based care, today announced that ApolloMed received certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance ("NCQA") for ...
EchoPixel has once again contributed to a pioneering procedure at CentraCare – St. Cloud Hospital with the first team to remove a heart tumor without invasive open heart surgery using the novel AlphaVac catheter. Previously CentraCare had been the first to use EchoPixel’s 4D hologram technology to conduct the WATCHMAN implant, which is a one-time, minimally invasive procedure ...
Quanta Dialysis Technologies Inc (“Quanta or “The Company”), a medical technology company committed to making kidney care more accessible with its SC+ hemodialysis system, announced today that CEO John E. Milad will leave the company effective July 15, 2022. The company has begun the search for a new CEO. Upon Milad’s departure and until the appointment of a new CEO, ...
Prof. M.S Sandhu from PGIMER Chandigarh #Radiology Department – India. recently gave an interview in which he illustrated the peculiarities of automatic CO2 angiography. In this interview, Prof. Sandhu remarked the Angiodroid technology. Here is a brief excerpt: “A recently developed injector with a very novel method to map these vessels is to use carbon dioxide as a ...
(Nasdaq: ALVR), a late-clinical stage allogeneic T-cell immunotherapy company, today announced preliminary, blinded data from an ongoing Phase 2 study of posoleucel, an investigational, allogeneic, off-the-shelf, multi-virus-specific T cell (VST) therapy, for the treatment of BK viremia (BKV) in adult kidney transplant recipients. These data from the largest ...
ByKalaris
“These results demonstrated that patients on long-term voclosporin therapy continue to experience clinically relevant benefits, including significant preservation of kidney function long-term, with no unexpected, new safety ...
OSE Immunotherapeutics SA (ISIN: FR0012127173; Mnemo: OSE) today announced that the first participant has been dosed in a Phase 1 Study of VEL-101/FR104 [NCT05238493], a study sponsored and conducted by its partner in transplantation, Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an Asahi Kasei company. VEL-101/FR104 is a novel investigational maintenance immunosuppressive agent being developed for prevention ...
If poorly controlled, LN can lead to permanent and irreversible tissue damage within the kidney, resulting in kidney failure. Black and Asian individuals with SLE are four times more likely to develop LN and individuals of Hispanic ancestry are approximately twice as likely to develop the disease when compared with Caucasian individuals. ...
Two compassionate use case reports of posoleucel therapy for refractory disseminated AdV infection post allo-HCT were presented at the 2022 Tandem Meetings |Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) and the Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant ...
ByKalaris
(Nasdaq: CARA), an early commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company leading a new treatment paradigm to improve the lives of patients suffering from pruritus, today announced biomarker data from the KALM-1 and KALM-2 clinical trials evaluating KORSUVA™ (difelikefalin) injection for the treatment of chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus in patients undergoing ...
QUANTA Dialysis Technologies Ltd (“QUANTA” or the “Company”), a medical technology company committed to making kidney care more accessible with its SC+ haemodialysis system, has released a new report that suggests people with kidney failure who wish to do home dialysis face unequal access across the UK. The Bridging the Gap report finds that failure to offer such treatment ...
Promaxo, Inc. (“Promaxo” or the “Company”), a medical imaging, robotics, and AI technology company, announced today the sale of its in-office MRI system to Beverly Hills Urology. Promaxo’s single-sided MRI with AI based imaging system, FDA cleared for in-office use, empowers practices and hospitals to accurately and seamlessly guide prostate interventions under the ...
Ascelia Pharma today announced and welcomed the results of independent market research showing that 84% of healthcare professionals will likely use Orviglance for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with cancer in the liver and reduced kidney function. The independently conducted survey asked 270 healthcare professionals in the US (radiologists, oncologists and nephrologists) about ...
Bilirubin, which causes jaundice in humans, has been in the spotlight as an anti-inflammatory substance since the 1930s. The phenomenon that rheumatoid inflammation disappears when a patient with rheumatoid arthritis suffers from jaundice was discovered by Philip Hench, a professor at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Attempts to drug ...
Ascelia Pharma AB (publ) (ticker: ACE) today announced that the last patient visit has been completed in the clinical study to evaluate the effect of liver impairment on the safety, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the company’s lead drug candidate Orviglance. Preliminary results show that Orviglance was well tolerated in patients with liver impairment. The study is part of the ...
Unfortunately, contrast dye can be toxic to the kidneys, especially in patients with preexisting kidney disease — and Sheldon has significant kidney dysfunction. ...
Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommends approval of Kapruvia® (difelikefalin) as first therapy in Europe for the treatment of chronic kidney disease associated-pruritus (CKD-aP) in hemodialysis patients European Commission decision for EU Marketing Authorization is expected in Q2 2022 Kapruvia® is approved in the U.S. under ...
A July 2019 White House executive order on kidney care (the Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative) proposed that 80% of new patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) be treated with either kidney transplantation or home dialysis by 2025, a significant increase from current rates, which are below 20%. ...
Vascular surgeon and professor of vascular surgery at Università dell’Insubria in Italy, and Frans L. Moll, MD, PhD, professor emeritus of vascular surgery at the University Medical Center Utrecht in The Netherlands, provided insights on the progress of the aXess trial in an interview with Healio Nephrology. For more on Xeltis’ aXess, the first restorative synthetic ...