This content is machine translated Chronic kidney disease Effective blood pressure reduction helps prevent CKD Chronic kidney disease is a progressive disease closely associated with hypertension. In a large number of patients requiring renal replacement therapy, consistent blood pressure reduction could have prevented end-stage renal…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Renal replacement procedures Dialysis up to date Loss of renal function can lead to accumulation of uremic toxins or life-threatening changes in electrolyte and volume balance. This negative development can be countered with various dialysis procedures.
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated The Swiss Dialysis Registry Current findings on the Swiss dialysis population Switzerland now has a meaningful registry on dialysis patients and treatments. This not only gives a good impression of the demographic situation and development of the Swiss dialysis population, but…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Update for the family doctor The patient requiring dialysis Due to the increasing aging of the population as well as improved medical care, the number of patients undergoing renal replacement procedures has increased in recent years. At the end…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 6th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Nephrology What does the zebrafish do better than us? In the course of the 6th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN) in Berlin, a press conference was held to discuss the extent to which modern dialysis…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Interview on thematic aspects of nephrology. Early detection of hypertension is essential in the prevention of nephropathy Prof. Dr. med. Michael Dickenmann, deputy. Chief of Nephrology and Transplantation Immunology, Basel, discusses the nephrological consequences of hypertension and its effective treatment in this interview. Furthermore, he mentions the…
