Patients with chronic kidney disease have a greater likelihood of premature immune aging and age-related disease, according to recently published findings. Cytometry on T-cells or quantitative ...

ALTHOUGH abnormal bleeding has been known to occur as a complication of renal failure at least since the time of Bright (1827) surprisingly little attention has been paid to this problem. A recent ...

Nitrogen balance was studied in 4 patients with uremia during treatment with a protein-reduced diet (20 g) supplemented with either essential amino acids and histidine or a mixture of keto analogues ...

Uremic bleeding syndrome is a recognized consequence of renal failure and can result in clinically significant sequelae. Although the pathophysiology of the condition has yet to be fully elucidated, ...

CHRONIC renal failure is often accompanied by metastatic calcification. In the two uremic patients described below severe arterial calcification and extensive gangrene of the upper extremities ...