Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects up to 10% of the population. Besides eventual progression towards end stage renal disease CKD impacts the patient?s quality of life by causing serious comorbidities including cardiovascular complications and bone metabolism disorders. On the everyday clinical level early stage diagnosis and tailored treatment of CKD are still inadequate. In addition, CKD see...

Osteoporosis is a common complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and the latter is a major risk factor for cardiovascular mortality. Recent studies have elucidated some of the mechanisms by which CKD is a cardiovascular risk, and they relate to osteoporosis. Thus, the mechanisms of CKD induced cardiovascular risk provide valuable insight into the relationship between cardiovascular diseas...

chronic kidney disease (CKD) in dogs and cats occurred late in the course of disease, usually aft er kidney function loss of 75% or more. Late recognition of CKD is largely due to insensitivity of serum creatinine concentration as a measure of kidney function. A new kidney function test, symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA), has been reported to diagnose CKD in dogs and cats with a decline in kidn...

INTRODUCTION Assessment of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is the best index of kidney functions. We aimed to determine the accuracy of El-Minia equation for estimation of GFR in different stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the El-Minia population of CKD patients, in comparison to other proposed equations. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 320 isotopic GFR measurements by 99m-T...

Judith Castagnola is a facility administrator at DaVita Peninsula Dialysis in Newport News, Va. Despite the improved diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease, late diagnosis with resultant permanent damage to the kidneys still occurs. A work group established by the National Kidney Foundation, the Kidney Disease Outcome Quality Initiative (KDOQI), was asked to develop clinical practice guideli...

OBJECTIVE To provide a framework for successfully managing chronic kidney disease (CKD) over an extended period of time with the goal of optimizing clinical outcomes by fostering a veterinarian-client relationship that facilitates successful application of evidence-based treatment. ETIOLOGY Ultimately, CKD results from loss of functional nephrons; however, the specific disease process respons...

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the third fastest-growing cause of death around world and projected to become fifth most common years life lost worldwide by 2040.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as a disease characterized by alterations in either kidney structure or function or both for a minimum of 3 months duration. It can be caused by a variety of conditions and this introduces significant heterogeneity in terms of how patients with CKD may present to their clinicians. However, irrespective of the etiology of CKD, patients with mild CKD are mo...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasingly being recognized as a disease of elderly individuals. In recent years the definition and categorization of kidney disease has been standardized. There are concerns that this standardization has led to an increase in the number of older individuals labeled as having CKD. This article addresses the definitions of CKD, recently published revised CKD sta...

Restriction of sodium intake to <2 g per day is recommended by clinical guidelines for controlling blood pressure and reducing risk cardiovascular disease among patients with chronic kidney (CKD). However, the association between progression CKD in terms function declining occurrence end-stage (ESKD) not well established.