OBJECTIVE Whether using provider-attributed end-stage renal disease (ESRD) cause of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in national surveillance data captures the entire population of patients with SLE and ESRD remains uncertain. Our goal was to examine attributed cause of ESRD in US surveillance data among patients with SLE who have developed ESRD. METHODS Data from a national registry of tre...

BACKGROUND The RENAAL (Reduction of Endpoints in Type 2 Diabetes with the Angiotensin II Antagonist Losartan) study demonstrated that treatment with losartan reduced the risk of ESRD by 29% among hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes and diabetic nephropathy. The objective of this study was to project the effect of losartan compared to placebo on the lifetime incidence of ESRD and associat...

BACKGROUND Hemodialysis (HD) treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) (HD(+ESRD)) may increase the risk of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) after a head injury (HI) for which heparin is used. However, the results of noncontrast head computed tomography (CT) in such patients are not always clear. We aimed to evaluate the effect of HD on the risk of ICH in ESRD patients and in controls without E...

Background: End stage renal disease (ESRD) patients are vulnerable to contract corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19), and they have higher risk of deterioration mortality rate compared general population. There studies on COVID-19 in end showing the low rates deterioration, most which did not develop into severe pneumonia. Objective: Compare clinical, laboratory, radiological findings with without...

BACKGROUND Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) due to lupus nephritis (LN-ESRD) may be followed by multiple providers (nephrologists and rheumatologists) and have greater opportunities to receive recommended ESRD-related care. We aimed to examine whether LN-ESRD patients have better quality of ESRD care compared to other ESRD patients. METHODS Among incident patients (7/05-9/11) with...

OBJECTIVE To examine the postoperative complications and death rate of major elective vascular surgery procedures in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). BACKGROUND DATA Patients with ESRD undergoing elective major vascular surgical procedures are thought to have a high rate of postoperative complications and death. METHODS The American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality...

The proportion of patients undergoing liver transplantation (LT), with concomitant renal dysfunction, markedly increased after allocation by the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score was introduced. We examined the incidence of subsequent post-LT end-stage renal disease (ESRD) before and after the policy was implemented. Data on all adult deceased donor LT recipients between April 27, ...

OBJECTIVE The study was aimed to evaluate the prevalence and prognosis of prostate cancer (PC) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD), determine the risk factors for overall survival (OS) and PC-specific survival (CSS), and evaluate differences in PC-related clinical therapeutic patterns between patients with and without PC-ESRD. METHODS This observational population study, performed at the Natio...