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Urology & Nephrology
Patrizia Natale, Manfred Hecking, Amelie Kurnikowski, Nicole Scholes-Robertson, Juan Jesus Carrero, Germaine Wong, Giovanni Strippoli, Allison Jaure
Summary: There is a gender disparity in access to kidney transplantation, with women being 20% less likely to receive a transplant compared to men across different backgrounds and socioeconomics. Nephrologists perceive that this disparity is exacerbated by gender norms, stigma, prejudice, and educational and financial disadvantages faced by women.
CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Surgery
David J. Taber, Zemin Su, Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Patrick D. Mauldin, Thomas A. Morinelli, Ammar O. Mahmood, Gayenell S. Magwood, Michael J. Casey, Joseph R. Scalea, Sam M. Kavarana, Prabhakar K. Baliga, James R. Rodrigue, Derek A. DuBay
Summary: This study implemented a multilevel quality improvement program to address the access barriers for kidney transplant among African Americans, resulting in significant improvements in equity.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Sun Hyoung Bae, Jung Jun Lee, Sun Young Son, Hee Young Kim, Man Ki Ju
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the correlations between health literacy, transplant effects, and compliance to treatment in organ transplant recipients and identify the factors influencing treatment compliance. The participants were organ transplant recipients visiting a transplantation center in Seoul, South Korea. The findings showed that health literacy, specifically actively managing one's health and social support for health, significantly affected treatment compliance. This highlights the importance of assessing patients' health literacy and providing tailored interventions to enhance patient outcomes.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kari Gire Dahl, Astrid Klopstad Wahl, Kristin Hjorthaug Urstad, Ragnhild S. Falk, Marit Helen Andersen
Summary: The study identified changes in health literacy during the first year following a kidney transplantation, with significant increase in the first 8 weeks but a flattening out at 6 and 12 months. Self-efficacy, transplant-related knowledge, and general health were core variables associated with health literacy. Low self-efficacy, less knowledge, and low self-perceived health may represent vulnerable characteristics in patients. It is suggested that future kidney transplant care should focus on patients' access to health information, social support, and potentially vulnerable groups.
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Ruben van Merweland, Jan J. V. Busschbach, Jacqueline van de Wetering, Sohal Ismail
Summary: This study conducted qualitative interviews with stakeholders involved in kidney transplantation to explore factors influencing access to kidney transplantation. The identified problems in policy, medical, psychological, social and economic domains were acknowledged by all participants. Stakeholders provided directions for future solutions to optimize access to kidney transplantation.
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Lucy A. Plumb, Manish D. Sinha, Anna Casula, Carol D. Inward, Stephen D. Marks, Fergus J. Caskey, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
Summary: The study found that socioeconomic deprivation and geographic location are not associated with late presentation in children in the UK. While geographic location was not independently associated with preemptive transplantation, children from more affluent areas were more likely to receive a preemptive transplant.
CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Aaron M. Delman, Kevin M. Turner, Latifa S. Silski, Ralph C. Quillin, Martha Estrada, Kristina Lemon, Madison C. Cuffy, Shimul A. Shah
Summary: This study developed a scalable metric to evaluate the performance of kidney transplant centers in providing equitable access to kidney transplant for minority patients. The results showed significant variations among transplant centers, with high KTEI centers performing more kidney transplants for minority and low socioeconomic status patients and having improved patient survival.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Jihan Sleiman, Gervasio Soler Pujol, Erika Montanez, Veronica Roatta, Gustavo Laham
Summary: Sex and gender are often used interchangeably, but gender is a more fluid and dynamic concept that encompasses psychosocial and cultural aspects. Inequality in medicine, particularly gender inequality, has been overlooked for a long time and is now a pressing concern. This study investigates gender equality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and highlights disparities in access to different treatment modalities.
FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Sunjae Bae, Morgan Johnson, Allan B. Massie, Xun Luo, Carlton Haywood, Sophie M. Lanzkron, Morgan E. Grams, Dorry L. Segev, Tanjala S. Purnell
Summary: Patients with sickle cell disease-associated kidney failure have similar decreases in mortality associated with kidney transplantation compared with other kidney failure etiologies. However, this population is less likely to receive transplantation, even after waitlist registration.
CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jung-Won Ahn, Sun Mi Lee, Yon Hee Seo
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the characteristics, physiological indices, and health literacy affecting self-care behavior in patients with chronic kidney disease in South Korea. The results showed significant differences in self-care behavior based on age, cohabitation status, employment, smoking status, dialysis, comorbidities, and certain physiological indices. Factors such as not currently working, being a non-smoker, having end-stage kidney disease, and a positive response to health literacy significantly affected self-care behavior.
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Xiaomeng Chen, Nadia M. Chu, Pragyashree Sharma Basyal, Wasurut Vihokrut, Deidra Crews, Daniel C. Brennan, Sarah R. Andrews, Tracy D. Vannorsdall, Dorry L. Segev, Mara A. McAdams-DeMarco
Summary: Depressive symptoms are common in kidney failure patients even without a clinical diagnosis of depression, and they may hinder the completion of kidney transplant evaluation. The severity of depressive symptoms is associated with age, with older candidates being less likely to report such symptoms. Regardless of age, candidates who report depressive symptoms have a lower chance of being listed for kidney transplant.
KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Ana Bobinac
Summary: Health literacy is related to health outcomes, and one possible pathway is through access to healthcare. This study explores the association between health literacy and unmet medical need in Croatia, for the first time in the EU context. Using data from face-to-face interviews, it is found that limited health literacy is prevalent and associated with higher rates of unmet medical need, primarily due to long waiting lists. It is important to design health services that meet the needs of individuals with limited or problematic health literacy, enhance health education, and reduce waiting times.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Marit Helen Andersen, Kristin Hjorthaug Urstad, Marie Hamilton Larsen, Eivind Engebretsen, John Odemark, Anne Eriksen, Astrid Klopstad Wahl
Summary: The study identified processes of knowing in patients awaiting kidney transplantation, including meaning-making, acquiring confidence, and accessing professional knowledge. Active interactions between patients and healthcare providers were found to be crucial in knowledge translation, requiring both parties to engage in self-consciousness and critical questioning.
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
(2021)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Jesse D. Schold, Sumit Mohan, Anne Huml, Laura D. Buccini, John R. Sedor, Joshua J. Augustine, Emilio D. Poggio
Summary: Despite extensive research and policy reforms over the past two decades, access to kidney transplantation among ESKD patients did not improve significantly and remained consistently lower among vulnerable populations.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Immunology
Dulat Bekbolsynov, Beata Mierzejewska, Sadik Khuder, Obinna Ekwenna, Michael Rees, Robert C. Green, Stanislaw M. Stepkowski
Summary: The study used physicochemical immunogenicity of donor/recipient HLAs to select weakly immunogenic kidney transplants for Black patients, leading to an increase in the number of suitable donors for Black recipients while still providing good options for non-Black recipients.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Michael J. Pencina, Chirag R. Parikh, Paul L. Kimmel, Nancy R. Cook, Josef Coresh, Harold I. Feldman, Andrea Foulkes, Phyllis A. Gimotty, Chi-yuan Hsu, Kevin Lemley, Peter Song, Kenneth Wilkins, Daniel R. Gossett, Yining Xie, Robert A. Star
STATISTICS IN MEDICINE
(2019)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Kathleen D. Liu, Jingrong Yang, Thida C. Tan, David Glidden, Sijie Zheng, Leonid Pravoverov, Chi-yuan Hsu, Alan S. Go
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES
(2019)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Sushrut S. Waikar, Anand Srivastava, Ragnar Palsson, Tariq Shafi, Chi-yuan Hsu, Kumar Sharma, James P. Lash, Jing Chen, Jiang He, John Lieske, Dawei Xie, Xiaoming Zhang, Harold I. Feldman, Gary C. Curhan, Lawrence J. Appel, Alan S. Go, John W. Kusek, Panduranga Rao, Mahboob Rahman, Raymond R. Townsend
JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2019)
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Peripheral Vascular Disease
Jing Chen, Joshua D. Bundy, L. Lee Hamm, Chi-yuan Hsu, James Lash, Edgar R. Miller, George Thomas, Debbie L. Cohen, Matthew R. Weir, Dominic S. Raj, Hsiang-yu Chen, Dawei Xie, Panduranga Rao, Jackson T. Wright, Mahboob Rahman, Jiang He, Lawrence J. Appel, Harold I. Feldman, Alan S. Go, Jiang He, John W. Kusek, James P. Lash, Panduranga Rao, Mahboob Rahman, Raymond R. Townsend
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Joshua D. Bundy, Xuan Cai, Julia J. Scialla, Mirela A. Dobre, Jing Chen, Chi-yuan Hsu, Mary B. Leonard, Alan S. Go, Panduranga S. Rao, James P. Lash, Raymond R. Townsend, Harold Feldman, Ian H. de Boer, Geoffrey A. Block, Myles Wolf, Edward R. Smith, Andreas Pasch, Tamara Isakova, Lawrence J. Appel, Jiang He, Mahboob Rahman
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES
(2019)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Chi-yuan Hsu, Kathleen D. Liu, Jingrong Yang, David Glidden, Thida C. Tan, Leonid Pravoverov, Sijie Zheng, Alan S. Go
CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2020)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Lama Ghazi, Kristine Yaffe, Manjula K. Tamura, Mahboob Rahman, Chi-yuan Hsu, Amanda H. Anderson, Jordana B. Cohen, Michael J. Fischer, Edgar R. Miller, Sankar D. Navaneethan, Jiang He, Matthew R. Weir, Raymond R. Townsend, Debbie L. Cohen, Harold I. Feldman, Paul E. Drawz
CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2020)
Article
Surgery
Luke S. Vest, Nagaraju Sarabu, Farrukh M. Koraishy, Minh-Tri Nguyen, Meyeon Park, Ngan N. Lam, Mark A. Schnitzler, David Axelrod, Chi Yuan Hsu, Amit X. Garg, Dorry L. Segev, Allan B. Massie, Gregory P. Hess, Bertram L. Kasiske, Krista L. Lentine
CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION
(2020)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Michael Zappitelli, Chirag R. Parikh, James S. Kaufman, Alan S. Go, Paul L. Kimmel, Chi-yuan Hsu, Steven G. Coca, Vernon M. Chinchilli, Jason H. Greenberg, Marva M. Moxey-Mims, T. Alp Ikizler, Vedran Cockovski, Anne-Marie Dyer, Prasad Devarajan
CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2020)
Editorial Material
Urology & Nephrology
Ian McCoy, Chi-yuan Hsu
CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Ryann Sohaney, Huiying Yin, Vahakn Shahinian, Rajiv Saran, Nilka Rios Burrows, Meda E. Pavkov, Tanushree Banerjee, Chi-yuan Hsu, Neil Powe, Diane Steffick, Kara Zivin, Michael Heung
Summary: This retrospective cohort study found that AKI patients have high mortality rates during their hospitalization and within one year after hospitalization, with over one in four patients dying within one year. There has been no significant progress in improving in-hospital or long-term AKI survivorship over the past decade.
CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Urology & Nephrology
Ian McCoy, Chi-yuan Hsu
CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Yumeng Wen, Leyuan Xu, Isabel Melchinger, Heather Thiessen-Philbrook, Dennis G. Moledina, Steven G. Coca, Chi-yuan Hsu, Alan S. Go, Kathleen D. Liu, Edward D. Siew, T. Alp Ikizler, Vernon M. Chinchilli, James S. Kaufman, Paul L. Kimmel, Jonathan Himmelfarb, Lloyd G. Cantley, Chirag R. Parikh
Summary: Long-term injury and inflammation after acute kidney injury (AKI) may lead to chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression. Study on 656 AKI patients found that changes in urine biomarkers (KIM-1, MCP-1) and plasma biomarker (TNFR1) were associated with increased risk of CKD, while changes in urine uromodulin were associated with reduced risk of CKD. The trajectories of these biological processes were also associated with kidney atrophy in mice after ischemic reperfusion injury (IRI).
Letter
Urology & Nephrology
Ian E. Mccoy, Eric Weinhandl, Wael Hussein, Chi-yuan Hsu
Summary: This study highlights the importance of treatment strategies and recovery screening for outpatient AKI-D. The results show that current treatment strategies still have some issues, such as inadequate initial dialysis orders and low completion rate of timed urine collections. However, the study also reveals the opportunity to potentially reduce dialysis frequency sooner.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xin Sheng, Chengxiang Qiu, Hongbo Liu, Caroline Gluck, Jesse Y. Hsu, Jiang He, Chi-yuan Hsu, Daohang Sha, Matthew R. Weir, Tamara Isakova, Dominic Raj, Hernan Rincon-Choles, Harold I. Feldman, Raymond Townsend, Hongzhe Li, Katalin Susztak
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2020)