Technical innovations in peritoneal dialysis (PD), now used widely for the long-term
treatment of ESRD, have significantly reduced therapy-related complications, allowing …

Background Diabetes has become the most common cause of end-stage renal disease
(ESRD) requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) in most countries around the world …

Background Determining the cost of a disease is one of the approaches to estimate the
burden of the disease. This study was aimed to estimate the socioeconomic burden of …

ABSTRACT Aim Although a National Health Screening Program (NHSP) for chronic kidney
disease (CKD) has been implemented in Korea since 2002, its cost‐effectiveness has never …

Background: We examined the relationship and combined effect of vascular calcification
(VC) and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) on deaths and cardiovascular events (CVEs) in …

Health claims databases offer opportunities for studies on large populations of patients with
kidney disease and health outcomes in a non-experimental setting. Among others, their …

Debates exist regarding the merit of starting one dialysis modality over the other for
improved cardiovascular outcomes. Five previously published prospective and retrospective …

Objectives Previous studies have mostly focused on the left-sided cardiovascular changes,
but right-sided cardiac changes and predictive factors have not been examined in advance …

Background Reduced left ventricular ejection function (LVEF) was associated with increased
mortality in patients with peritoneal dialysis (PD) in Asia and the United States of America …

Background Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) of aspirin plus clopidogrel is commonly used
in patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysms treated with stent-assisted coil (SAC) …