Shawn M. Carter

Key takeaways: Black adults were less likely to receive a kidney transplant than white adults in all four study periods.

SAN DIEGO — Pain coping skills training may be beneficial for pain interference and related outcomes for patients on hemodialysis, according to data presented at ASN Kidney Week.

SAN DIEGO — Adults with end-stage kidney disease on long-term hemodialysis may be confronted with complex medication regimens after hospitalizations, data presented at ASN Kidney Week show.Patients with ESKD “are probably one of the populations that is the biggest, most complicated [and often] have the most medications,” Sharmilee Vuyyuru, MO, of the University of California

SAN DIEGO — A quality improvement project among a predominately Black urban population helped patients on hemodialysis who were involuntary discharged regain access to care, according to presented data.

Older women with chronic kidney disease who take denosumab may have a higher risk for emergently treated hypocalcemia compared with those treated with bisphosphonates, according to published data.

SAN DIEGO — Increasing diversity and addressing gender and racial gaps among nephrology fellows requires immediate action, researchers said at ASN Kidney Week.

SAN DIEGO — ChatGPT 4.0 partly avoided discriminatory decision-making for patients with kidney disease, but had gaps in diversity, equity and inclusion, data show.Chat GPT “is pretrained on mass data, but all of this data is essentially publicly available data. So, any data in research papers that [are] not [yet] available will not be used,” Suryanarayanan Balakrishnan, MD, an

SAN DIEGO — U.S. dialysis facility closures from 2018 to 2023 raise concerns about access to vital care, particularly in rural communities, according to data from ASN Kidney Week.

Tolvaptan may slow disease progression and delay kidney failure in young adults with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, according to results of a pooled database study.“Patients considering tolvaptan initiation are counseled that treatment typically requires long-term adherence and to understand the risks and benefits,” Fouad T. Chebib, MD, of the Mayo Clinic nephrology and

SAN DIEGO — Use of a chlorhexidine foam dressing may reduce exit site infection rates for patients with tunneled hemodialysis catheters when certain protocols are followed, data show.“Our main concern is [that] there is still a significant number of patients on hemodialysis catheters long-term. That could be for several reasons, but it comes with the risk of bloodstream infections