Renal Bone Disease

renal bone disease among patients with esrd

Renal Bone Disease Among Patients With ESRD

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. With interest, we read the article by Sidy Secket et al. on the mineral and bone disease in black African hemodialy-sis patients: A report from Senegal. The authors evaluated 118 end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients under hemo-dialysis and showed that chronic kidney dis...

Invited Comment Bone disease after renal transplantation

Kidney transplantation largely restores defective exocrine and endocrine renal function in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). This in turn is expected to lead to a progressive correction of established renal bone disease. This widely held assumption, however, lacks convincing evidence from experimental and clinical data published thus far. A major obstacle to the investigation of ren...

Hyperparathyroid bone disease in chronic renal failure

Much has been learnt over the past 80 years of the pathogenesis and management of hyperparathyroid bone disease in uraemia. Clinically it has changed from a rare disorder of childhood and adolescence to a common and difficult problem in patients maintained on dialysis programmes. Whereas effective treatments are now available for hyperparathyroid bone disease, these are not curative and there i...

mineral and bone disease in african renal failure patients