Nephrology
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Analysis: Leave Robotic Prostatectomy in the Hands of Experts
Major Finding: Between 1,500 and 1,600 cases were needed to achieve a positive surgical margin rate of less than 10% during robotic-assisted...
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Risk of Prostate Cancer Death Reduced With Low Initial PSA
Major Finding: The overall risk of prostate cancer death in 15,758 men with a PSA level less than 3.0 ng/mL was low at 0.14/1,000 life-years,...
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Effects of HCV and Chronic Kidney Disease on Mortality Studied
Major Finding: After adjusting for age, sex, and race, the hazard ratio for all-cause mortality was 2.5 for study participants with chronic kidney...
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Pomegranate Juice Found Beneficial for Dialysis Patients
Major Finding: Dialysis patients who consumed pomegranate juice over the course of a year had a lower rate of infection-related hospitalization...
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Behavioral Therapy Halves Persistent Postprostatectomy Incontinence
Major Finding: An 8-week behavioral intervention reduced episodes of urinary incontinence by 55% in men whose incontinence resulted from radical...
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Higher Mortality When Anemia Develops in Stage 3 Kidney Disease
Major Finding: Patients who had stage 3 chronic kidney disease and developed anemia had earlier progression to stage 4 disease (18 months vs. 28...
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Extremely-Low-Birth-Weight Infants Need Prolonged Renal Follow-Up
Major Finding: Mean estimated glomerular filtration (eGFR) rates were significantly lower (94.8 vs. 103.9 mL/min per 1.73 m2; P less than .01) in...
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Markers May Guide Need for Dialysis After Cardiac Surgery
Major Finding: IL-18 was the strongest biomarker to predict the need for renal replacement therapy among patients with acute kidney injury who...
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Weekend Admission Predicts Higher Mortality in ESRD Patients
Major Finding: In 2007, 8% of ESRD patients who were admitted to the hospital on a weekend died in the hospital, compared with 7% who were...
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Video Report: Challenges for Urogynecologic Research
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Race, Poverty Affect Transplant Outcomes in Children
Major Finding: Black pediatric patients who received a kidney transplant were 2.3 times more likely than were their white, non-Hispanic...