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Sacubitril/Valsartan and Ivabradine: Promising Drugs for Severe Heart Failure

Sacubitril/Valsartan and Ivabradine: Promising Drugs for Severe Heart Failure

Highlights: Sacubitril/valsartan and ivabradine are drugs that help in the treatment of severe heart failure through different mechanisms. They reduce the need for hosp...

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Obesity Drug can Now Prevent Kidney Stones

Obesity Drug can Now Prevent Kidney Stones

Highlights Obesity drug helps prevent kidney stones in at-risk individuals Free fatty acids cause inflammation and cytotoxic effects in kidneys that lead to kidney stones £]3-a...

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Chronic Kidney Disease Mostly Undetected Till Diagnosis With Diabetes

Chronic Kidney Disease Mostly Undetected Till Diagnosis With Diabetes

Highlights: Chronic kidney disease is mostly undiagnosed till a diabetes diagnosis. Diabetes patients are mostly screened for kidney disease. These findings recommend early sc...

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Conclusions from the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Conference on CKD & Arrhythmias

Conclusions from the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Conference on CKD & Arrhythmias

Highlights: The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Conference on CKD & Arrhythmias held on October 2016 in Berlin looked into several issues related to cardiac arrhy...

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Love Your Kidneys And Take Care of Them - World Kidney Day

Love Your Kidneys And Take Care of Them - World Kidney Day

Highlights: World Kidney Day (WKD) is observed annually to raise awareness about kidney disease, its prevention and treatment WKD 2018 aims to focus on women with kidney disease and to ...

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Factors That Influence the Recurrence of Kidney Diseases After Nephrectomy

Factors That Influence the Recurrence of Kidney Diseases After Nephrectomy

Highlights Surgical factors are the most important determinant factors for chronic kidney disease after partial nephrectomy. The time of ischemia and the amount of healthy remaini...

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Chronic Kidney Disease Patients can Benefit from Weightlifting

Chronic Kidney Disease Patients can Benefit from Weightlifting

Highlights: Weightlifting provides significant health benefits for kidney disease patients. Aerobic exercise when combined with resistance exercise increases muscle streng...

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Hepatitis C-positive Kidneys can be Transplanted Without Infection

Hepatitis C-positive Kidneys can be Transplanted Without Infection

Hepatitis C-positive kidneys can be successfully transplanted into recipients without infection. Currently usable organs from donors with hepatitis C are discarded because there are ...

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Chronic Kidney Disease Linked to Lower IQ Level in Children

Chronic Kidney Disease Linked to Lower IQ Level in Children

Highlights: An analysis found that the children with chronic kidney disease had low IQ level compared to normal children The affected children had problems in reasoning, ac...

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Resolvin D-1 Limits Kidney Inflammation Caused by Heart Attack

Resolvin D-1 Limits Kidney Inflammation Caused by Heart Attack

Highlights: Resolvin D-1 may limit inflammation of the kidneys caused by heart attack. Resolvin D-1 is a bioactive compound generated by the immune system after a heart attack to ...

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Novel Combination Therapy For Advanced Kidney Cancer Effective Yet Tolerable

Novel Combination Therapy For Advanced Kidney Cancer Effective Yet Tolerable

Highlights: Novel combination of angiogenesis (new blood vessel formation) inhibitor axitinib and immunotherapy agent pembrolizumab shown to be very effective, yet tolerable with fe...

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Kidney Function Calculators Not Completely Accurate in the Indian Population

Kidney Function Calculators Not Completely Accurate in the Indian Population

Highlights: Two equations – The Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study equation and the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation – are...

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Kidney Disease in Children Increases the Risk of End Stage Renal Disease(ESRD) in Adulthood

Kidney Disease in Children Increases the Risk of End Stage Renal Disease(ESRD) in Adulthood

Highlights: Adults from Israel appeared to be at an increased risk for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) if they suffered from kidney disease in childhood. The increased ...

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New Insight into How Calcium Accumulate in the Blood Vessels

New Insight into How Calcium Accumulate in the Blood Vessels

Highlights: Mechanisms behind the accumulation of calcium in the blood vessels have been identified. Vascular calcification is the accumulation of calcium in the vascular system -...

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Metformin Appears To Be Safe And Effective In Stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease

Metformin Appears To Be Safe And Effective In Stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease

Highlights: Scientists evaluated the use of metformin in diabetes patients with moderate-to-severe chronic kidney disease A lower than usual dose appears to be effective in ...

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