Prehabilitation
It sounds like a buzzword doesn’t it? Indeed in the last two decades studies concerning this “intervention” have multiplied but few have looked at it in regard to chronic renal […]
It sounds like a buzzword doesn’t it? Indeed in the last two decades studies concerning this “intervention” have multiplied but few have looked at it in regard to chronic renal […]
Two days before Christmas is probably not good timing for publication of a paper about sugar making kidney cysts grow. Diets are best saved for the new year. So two […]
A comment I often hear on the PKD forum is “my doctor says polycystic kidneys aren’t painful”. This is often followed by many people agreeing and, sadly, by comments such […]
It is fairly common to be anaemic when you approach the later stages of chronic kidney disease: the majority of patients in stage 5 of CKD will develop anaemia. This […]
https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfz173 The problem: Kidney diseases often have features in common, especially in the advanced stages. This makes diagnosis by clinical features alone a less than perfect process. In previous posts […]
Cui X, Gallini JW, Jasien CL, Mrug M. Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease does not significantly alter major COVID-19 outcomes among veterans. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2020 Nov 29:2020.11.25.20238675. doi: 10.1101/2020.11.25.20238675. PMID: […]
One of the earliest posts I made in this blog was about genetic testing. Back in 2014 it was not recommended as part of the clinical work-up of an ADPKD […]
This last week has seen a flurry of hopeful posts on the PKD social media outlets regarding the benefits of a ketogenic diet so I really need to look at […]
Three years ago I wrote a post entitled “Should we take statins?” which ended at that time with me still sitting on the fence. I was unconvinced from my reading […]
It has been a long while since I added to this blog, my apologies to regular readers. I am back again, though typing with the assistance of a toddler so […]
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