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ESRD Patients Living Longer Despite Growth of CKD

2024-03-28T21:04:59-04:00March 17th, 2016|Categories: Diagnosis of Kidney Disease, eNews|Tags: |

According to a study by the US Renal Data System (USRDS), the University of Michigan, and the Arbor Research Collective for Health, the number of people newly diagnosed with end stage renal disease (ESRD) has been steadily declining since 2010. In 2012, only 114,813 people were newly diagnosed with ESRD, bringing the total number of ESRD patients in the US to 636,905. Mortality rates for ESRD patients have also been declining, indicating that patients on dialysis or with kidney transplants are living longer. This means dialysis patients are receiving higher quality care on the whole. While 14% of US adults have [...]

Milestone Reached in Building Replacement Kidneys

2024-03-28T21:06:26-04:00September 18th, 2014|Categories: eNews, Kidney Transplant|Tags: , , |

"I like pigs.  Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, pigs treat us as equals.” -Winston Churchill Could pigs be the answer to kidney replacements? Pig kidneys are roughly the same size as human kidneys. Testing in the past has been limited to rodent sized kidneys without much success.  Recently, testing with pig kidneys has proven more likely to match human needs for kidney replacement. Researchers are currently using only the structure of the pig kidney and filling in that structure with the recipient’s own cells to create a kidney that would not be rejected.  If proven successful, [...]

Exciting News from the Bloodstream Infection (BSI) Prevention Collaborative

2024-03-28T21:06:35-04:00January 23rd, 2014|Categories: eNews, Lifestyle|Tags: , , |

Since 2011, DPC has been involved with the BSI Prevention Collaborative and was the first patient group to participate and attended the inaugural meeting in November 2011. The primary goal of the collaborative is preventing bloodstream infections in hemodialysis patients with the secondary role of increasing awareness in the dialysis community. The group is open to most outpatient dialysis facilities throughout the United States and other community partners. Facilities that participate get access to best practices from experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and from others who are directly applying safety precautions in their own clinic. Members [...]

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