Dialysis Versus Transplantation: Navigating Treatment Strategies in Chronic Kidney Disease
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Nephrology & Urology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2027 | Viewed by 76
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Interests: chronic kidney disease; fibrosis; cell signaling; precision medicine; biomarkers
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Dear Colleagues,
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is not only a growing global health burden, but also a condition that forces some of the most difficult and deeply personal decisions in clinical medicine. When patients progress to kidney failure, dialysis and kidney transplantation are not simply alternative treatments; they represent different therapeutic paths, each associated with distinct risks, benefits, limitations, and expectations. For some patients, dialysis remains the most realistic and life-sustaining strategy, while for others transplantation may offer better long-term survival, improved quality of life, and greater functional recovery. However, the decision is rarely straightforward and must be shaped by medical, ethical, psychosocial, and health-system factors.
This Special Issue, Dialysis Versus Transplantation: Navigating Treatment Strategies in Chronic Kidney Disease, aims to provide a clinically meaningful and patient-centered perspective on how treatment strategies are selected, compared, and optimized across the CKD continuum. We welcome contributions addressing comparative outcomes of dialysis and transplantation, pre-emptive transplantation, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis strategies, home dialysis, frailty and multimorbidity, cardiovascular risk, transplant eligibility and readiness, donor and recipient assessment, patient-reported outcomes, quality of life, biomarkers, prediction models, precision nephrology, digital health, artificial intelligence, ethical challenges, health disparities, and renal replacement therapy. Particular interest will be given to studies that help clarify which approach may be most appropriate for which patient, under which clinical circumstances, and at what stage of disease progression.
By bringing together clinical evidence, translational research, and real-world perspectives, this Special Issue seeks to move beyond a simplified dialysis-versus-transplantation debate and toward a more nuanced understanding of individualized care in advanced kidney disease.
Dr. Andreja Figurek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chronic kidney disease
- kidney failure
- dialysis
- kidney transplantation
- renal replacement therapy
- hemodialysis
- peritoneal dialysis
- pre-emptive transplantation
- patient-centered care
- quality of life
- precision nephrology
- biomarkers
- artificial intelligence
- health disparities
- treatment decision-making
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