Uremia is most often due to kidney failure from advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). Common symptoms include nausea, vomiting, weight loss, lower-stomach pain, and fatigue. Without treatment in ...

Patients with uremia secondary to chronic kidney disease will generally require EPO replacement therapy for treatment or prevention of anemia; recombinant human EPO is, therefore, already a ...

Juliette is one of just 33 children in the world taking a new injectable drug to keep her rare blood disease from attacking ...

Since that time, several hundred cases have been reported, mainly in children. In adults, the hemolytic-uremic syndrome is often associated with pregnancy. The similarity to thrombotic ...

Treatments for uremic bleeding target the various factors that seem to have a role in platelet dysfunction. Interventions can exert acute (within 6 h) or delayed (within several weeks) effects ...

porcine renal proximal tubule cells were grown on 35 mm culture plates to confluency and exposed to uremic ultrafiltrate obtained from patients with end-stage renal disease who were undergoing ...

Disease X, a mysterious viral illness in Africa, has caused over 140 deaths and primarily affects children. The WHO is foxed ...