Kidney problems

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  HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: non-communicable diseases, HIV and TB

  This is the fourth edition of HATiP written for nurses and other healthcare workers involved in task shifting in sub-Saharan Africa, kindly supported by the Stop TB Department...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Managing kidney disease in people living with HIV

  Part of a series on kidney disease in resource-limited settings. This edition looks at assessment and management of kidney disease in people with HIV....

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Acute and chronic kidney disease

  Part of a series on kidney disease in resource-limited settings. This edition looks at the causes and prevalence of acute and chronic kidney disease in...

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Kidney disease in people with HIV: a clinical review (part one)

  First in a series on kidney disease in resource-limited settings. This edition covers the scale of the problem, diagnosing kidney disease and monitoring kidney function....

  From:HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  HIV and the kidneys

  It’s becoming increasingly clear that, when it comes to HIV, amongst the most vulnerable organs in the body are those two little waste filters in the small...

  From:HIV treatment update

Kidney problems news from aidsmap

• Diabetes increases risk of chronic kidney disease for people with HIV: effect greater than for either disease alone

  Diabetes increases the risk of the progression of chronic kidney disease for patients with HIV, US investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The association was significant even after controlling for traditional ...

  19 hours ago | Michael Carter

• Tenofovir associated with increased risk of kidney disease

  Treatment with tenofovir is associated with a modestly increased risk of three key markers of kidney disease, US investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. The large study involved over 10,000 patients who started antiretroviral therapy between 1997 and ...

  13 February 2012 | Michael Carter

• Earlier deaths in people with HIV due to drugs, alcohol, co-infections, poorly controlled HIV - not rapid ageing

  Patients taking antiretroviral therapy have the same mortality risk as individuals in the general population, according to Danish research published in the open-access journal PLoS One. However, this was only the case when the patients responded to treatment and ...

  12 December 2011 | Michael Carter

• Mild kidney problems in patients with HIV can identify patients with hardening of the arteries

  Emergent kidney dysfunction is associated with an increased risk of hardening of the arteries in patients with HIV, Spanish researchers show in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. “Our findings provide support for the hypothesis ...

  08 December 2011 | Michael Carter

• Patients with both HIV and diabetes have an increased risk of albuminuria

  HIV-positive individuals with diabetes have a significantly higher prevalence of albuminuria than patients living with either disease alone, US investigators report in PLoS One. Over a third of patients with HIV and type-2 diabetes had albuminuria (albumin in urine), an ...

  17 October 2011 | Michael Carter

• Heart attacks, non-AIDS cancers, more common in Botswana than in US patients on HIV treatment

  Incidence rates of non-AIDS-defining events (NADEs) in HIV-infected individuals on ART were 50% higher in a clinical trial cohort in Botswana - compared to a routine care (observational) cohort in the United States (US) - with especially high rates of ...

  21 June 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Atazanavir associated with significant risk of kidney stones and renal impairment

  Studies presented at last week’s British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference found that kidney stones were four times more common in people taking the protease inhibitor atazanavir than in people taking other drugs. However they were still relatively uncommon – ...

  14 April 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Kidney transplant 'feasible' for patients with HIV

  Kidney transplant is a feasible option for HIV-positive patients with end-stage renal disease, US investigators report in the November 18th edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Three years after transplant 88% of patients were still alive, and the transplanted ...

  19 November 2010 | Michael Carter

• Low prevalence of end-stage kidney disease in European HIV patients

  The prevalence of end-stage renal disease among HIV-positive patients in Europe is low, investigators report in an advance online publication in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. Only 0.5% of patients had irreversible kidney damage requiring dialysis or ...

  15 September 2010 | Michael Carter

• Tenofovir treatment impairs kidney function, but clinical significance limited

  Treatment with tenofovir has an adverse impact on kidney function, but the clinical significance of this is modest, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis conducted by an international team of investigators and published in the ...

  16 August 2010 | Michael Carter

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Kidney problems news selected from other sources

• AIDS down, heart disease up in hospital admissions of HIV+ in US

  Hospital admissions for AIDS illnesses dropped steadily from 2001 to 2008 in a four-center US study, while admissions for cardiovascular disease in HIV-positive people rose.

  29 March 2012 | International AIDS Society

• Kidneys Take Centre Stage

  Maggie Atkinson shines a much-needed spotlight on the latest research on HIV and kidney health and updates us on her efforts to keep her pair of these unassuming stars performing smoothly.

  06 February 2012 | The Positive Side

• 2 HIV patients undergo kidney transplant in Bangalore hospital

  Two HIV positive patients from East Africa, who were suffering from renal problems, have got a new lease of life after kidney transplantation surgeries at a private hospital here.

  22 December 2011 | IBN Live

• No HIV Disease Progression in Transplant Recipients

  Now that people infected with HIV are living longer, physicians are seeing a growing number who need kidney or liver transplants because of comorbid conditions. But what happens when you take patients in an immunosuppressed population, give them new organs, and further immunosuppress them with drugs to prevent rejection of those organs?

  19 November 2011 | Medscape (requires free registration)

• AMA Supports Allowing Research on Organ Transplantation Between HIV-Infected Individuals

  The American Medical Association (AMA) today voted to support amending a federal law that bars clinical research of HIV-infected organ donation, as a potentially lifesaving measure for people living with HIV.

  15 November 2011 | American Medical Association

• 2011 European AIDS Clinical Society adult treatment guidelines

  Updated adult treatment guidelines were issued by the European AIDS Clinical Society at the 12th European AIDS Conference, Belgrade, 12-15 October 2011. The guidelines include specific recommendations on managing co-morbidities and hepatitis B coinfection in people living with HIV.

  17 October 2011 | EACS

• New HIV Treatment Guidelines Focus on Comorbid Conditions

  The latest guidelines of the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS), released here at the society's 13th European AIDS Conference, give special emphasis to comorbid conditions that may occur in patients infected with HIV.

  16 October 2011 | Medscape (requires registration)

• Zimbabwe: HIV Positive Renal Patients in Dilemma - AllAfrica.com

  Major public hospitals are facing an acute shortage of dialysis machines with major referal centres excluding renal patients living with HIV and Aids from treatment.

  28 September 2011 | Google Alerts HIV

• Botswana: HIV biggest cause of kidney malfunction

  HIV has become the biggest cause of kidney diseases, says the Chairman of the Board of Riverside Private Hospital, Dr Kgosidialwa Mompati.

  07 July 2011 | Mmegi Online

• Allowing people with HIV to be organ donors could save lives of HIV-positive patients with kidney or liver failure

  If the U.S. Congress reversed its ban on allowing people with HIV to be organ donors after their death, roughly 500 HIV-positive patients with kidney or liver failure each year could get transplants within months, rather than the years they currently wait on the list, new research suggests.

  25 May 2011 | Science Daily

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