Senescent chronic kidney disease: The challenges faced and the strategies to overcome.

This article seeks to bring a consensus in sorting out these practical problems so that a systematic way of approach could be arrived at in managing such fragile patients. The last decade has seen an evolution and ongoing refinement of a disease-oriented approach to CKD. Since the average GFR tends to decrease with age, CKD becomes increasingly prevalent with advancing age, and thus, disproportionately elderly patients meet the criteria for CKD. PMID: 29265034 [PubMed - in process]

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Source: Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation - November 1, 2017 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Jayaraman R, Ganapathy E, Balakrishnan S, Prashanth S, Akila R Tags: Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl Source Type: research