Personalized Medicine in Kidney Disease
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Personalized Therapy and Drug Delivery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (23 June 2023) | Viewed by 22918
Special Issue Editors
Interests: clinical nephrology; chronic kidney disease; glomerulonephritis; diabetic kidney disease; thrombotic microangiopathies; hypertensive disorders of pregnancy; vitamin D
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: clinical nephrology; chronic kidney disease; glomerulonephritis; diabetic kidney disease; hypertension; thrombotic microangiopathies; renal tubular acidosis; acute kidney injury; dialysis; vitamin D; vascular access
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: clinical nephrology; chronic kidney disease; glomerulonephritis; diabetic kidney disease; hypertension; thrombotic microangiopathies; renal tubular acidosis; acute kidney injury; dialysis; vitamin D; vascular access
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chronic kidney diseases represent a real challenge for clinicians, who may take charge of patients at high risk of developing chronic and likely invalidating impairment of renal function.
In particular, hypertensive kidney disease and diabetic kidney disease represent emergencies that negatively affect the population’s quality of life worldwide. Even these frequent diseases need a personalized approach for all individuals, guaranteeing a patient-centered treatment strategy with a tailored therapy, to date reserved for rarer syndromes.
Recent advances in technology have enabled a better comprehension of pathophysiology mechanisms, laying the foundation for developing new and more specific therapies. Therefore, the importance of a “precision medicine” approach, borrowed from oncology, is growing in all medical fields, to cure the patient more than the disease.
Concerning kidney diseases, this strategy has not only been applied in onconephrology, but it has been successfully translated in the treatment of glomerulonephritis and autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases. At the same time, recent evidence has demonstrated the relevant impact of customized nutrition programs on preserving renal function with reduced salt and protein intake or even plant-based diets, chosen according to patients’ habits or wishes. Finally, renal replacement therapies, required in advanced stages of chronic kidney disease, can also be personalized in line with the patients’ needs to ensure the best possible quality of life for them.
This Special Issue of the Journal of Personalized Medicine aims to publish papers on tailored medicine and its challenges in all the nephrological settings, as it represents one of the key features of a successful therapeutic alliance between clinicians and patients.
Dr. Rossella Siligato
Dr. Guido Gembillo
Prof. Dr. Domenico Santoro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chronic kidney disease
- diabetic kidney disease
- hypertension
- rare diseases
- glomerulonephritis
- thrombotic microangiopathies
- renal tubular acidosis
- acute kidney injury
- vascular access
- personalized dialysis
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