As end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has a four times higher incidence in African Americans
compared to European Americans, we hypothesized that susceptibility alleles for ESRD …

“U” curve association of blood pressure and mortality in hemodialysis patients. Background
Hypertension may play an important role in the pathogenesis of the excess cardiovascular …

If Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis, John Z. Sadler’s brilliant tour de force, is any yardstick
of the intellectual health of contemporary psychiatry, the field is alive and well. When I …

The distinction between normality and psychopathology has long been subject to debate.
DSM-III and DSM-IV provided a definition of mental disorder to help clinicians address this …

Background: Care for chronic renal failure involves management of complications and
preparation for possible dialysis. Patients often are not evaluated by nephrologists in a timely …

… Enrolled patients were oversampled for peritoneal dialysis to allow statistical comparisons
by type of dialysis The institutional review boards of Johns Hopkins University and the clinical …

ContextIn light of conflicting evidence of differential effects of dialysis modality on survival,
patient experience becomes a more important consideration in choosing between …

The latest iteration of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) criteria presented in The
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) includes specific …

Recent clinical practice guidelines recommend the creation of an arteriovenous (AV) vascular
access (ie, native fistula or synthetic graft) before the start of chronic hemodialysis therapy …

… We have recently employed such an operation, which has not been previously described,
utilizing the patient’s basilic vein and brachial artery. The initially successful results have …