Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major global health burden. Patient education is a crucial part of CKD management. Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Gemini may help patients access medical information, but their reliabili...
Therapeutic plasma exchange is a procedure in which plasma is removed and replaced with another fluid to correct blood abnormalities. There is growing evidence of its benefit in certain clinical conditions, including thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpu...
Introduction: Temporary non-tunneled catheters are necessary in patients with chronic kidney disease requiring acute hemodialysis care, and complications associated with these catheters, such as infection and thrombosis, represent the most important...
Background: Preserving arm veins is important for arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), as mature AVF is the preferred hemodialysis access. Midline catheters introduced into AVF candidate veins m...
Lithium is the most reliable mood stabilizer available for the treatment of bipolar disorder. However, its use is limited by multiple concerns, including acute toxicity. Lithium levels have frequently been key to decisions regarding initiation of dia...
Background: Patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (HD) have a high risk of developing cardiovascular diseases due to calcification of the heart valves and coronary arteries, which results in a high mortality rate. In particular, aortic stenosi...
Background: Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their inhibitors, tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs), regulate the extracellular matrix. This study examined messenger RNA transcripts of TIMP2 before and after kidney transplantation. Met...
Membranous nephropathy (MN) is an immune complex-mediated glomerular disease defined by sub-epithelial deposits that trigger complement activation and podocyte injury. Its pathogenesis reflects loss of immune tolerance and may present as a kidney-lim...
Background: Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are highly prevalent in people receiving dialysis and contribute to malnutrition and poor quality of life. We examined the prevalence and severity of GI symptoms in Jordanian adults with end-stage kidney dis...
Background: Handgrip strength (HGS) is a simple, low-cost indicator of muscle function and predictor of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Objective: To establish sex- and age-specific normative values for HGS in C...
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