Kidney Failure Articles & Analysis
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Understanding Sleep Apnea and Its Types Sleep apnea is a sleep-related breathing disorder that results in poor sleep quality and can lead to daytime fatigue or sleepiness, forgetfulness, and irritability. According to the Mayo Clinic, there are 3 types of sleep apnea to be aware of as follows: OSA or obstructive sleep apnea is the more common form of the disorder and affects roughly 30% of ...
Diabetes is the eighth leading cause of death and disability worldwide and a leading cause of ischaemic heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, stroke and lower limb amputation. The most common forms of diabetes are type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. ...
Healing rate: 25.3 mm2/day. Healing time: 33 days. Wound size: 38 × 22 × 8 mm. Age of wound when treatment started: > 1 year. Subject: 52/male. Insulin dependent diabetic, peripheral neuropathy, hypertension, renal failure on hemodialysis; history of chronic foot ...
Mice have long served as the species of interest for biomedical research thanks to their genetic, physiological, and anatomical similarity to humans. Mice kidney samples are used to study renal biology covering topics such as acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease, both of which are extremely useful for better understanding renal ...
Another prominent disease is Fabry's disease, which causes fatigue and kidney failure. With the development of modern instrumentation techniques, especially mass spectrometry and chromatography-mass spectrometry, the separation and detection of sphingolipids have entered an era of rapid development. ...
Heart damage or inflammation can induce fibroblasts to overproduce fibrous material, causing cardiac fibrosis, which hardens the heart muscle and impairs heart function. Heart failure, liver disease, and kidney failure are just a few of the major conditions that can result from cardiac fibrosis. ...
Objective: Patients with end stage renal failure who require haemodialysis suffer morbidity and mortality due to vascular access. Bioengineered human acellular vessels (HAVs) may provide a haemodialysis access option with fewer complications than other grafts. In a prospective phase II trial from 2012 to 2014 (NCT01744418), HAVs were implanted into 40 haemodialysis patients at three sites in ...
Annotations Kidney toxicity is a significant side-effect withGal-3 plays an essential role in kidney fibrosis and renal failure, and it is one of the critical factors for renal injury Inhibition of Gal-3, mediated by MCP, antagonized the pro-apoptotic (cell death) effects. ...
Around 37 million people in the United States and around 700 million people worldwide have chronic kidney disease which require patients to utilize dialysis centers. These dialysis clinics provide lifesaving treatments to the patients that need them. ...
The increasing incidence of peripheral artery disease (PAD) is occurring globally as populations age and rates of diabetes, obesity, and renal disease increase.1-3 Although most of these patients have no symptoms, when the disease progresses to its most advanced form, chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), there is a significant risk for limb loss. Despite the fact that our revascularization ...
The use of a novel implantable string subcutaneous defibrillator (ISSD, Newpace) that has no can, and has been designed to be placed without the need for a surgical pocket, may allow improved patient compliance and aesthetics, is less invasive, and has optimal implantation time. The results from a first-in-man feasibility study on subcutaneous defibrillation utilising an integrated flexible ...
It is therefore recommended that chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients in the fourth or fifth stages be educated on vascular access modalities to allow sufficient time for access placement.3 While this is a noble goal, it has been difficult to implement because of the unpredictability of renal failure progression, patient referral patterns, and financial ...
This case study discusses hospital readmissions and provides healthcare professionals with recommended medical algorithms in the form of scores, models, and calculators that can aid in reducing readmissions, especially when related to antibiotic resistant microbiological pathogens. When health analytics, such as the CDC antibiotic resistance program and other algorithms are integrated into ...
If you think it’s hard to get HVAC money for schools and similar public buildings, there is a harder nut to crack: correctional facilities. It can be even more difficult to get additional funds appropriated to improve conditions in buildings where people are incarcerated. Compounding the problem, many correctional facility employees are in close proximity with the inmate community daily. ...
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