Kidney problems

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• Geriatric HIV: living with multiple medical conditions will become the norm as population ages

  In fifteen years' time, the clinical needs of Dutch people living with HIV will have changed substantially due to three quarters of them being over the...

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

  Conditions such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes in low- and middle-income countries, and awareness of these conditions in people living with HIV and/or TB. ...

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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

• Descovy is non-inferior to Truvada for daily PrEP

  A daily pill containing the newer formulation of tenofovir in combination with emtricitabine (Descovy) had a comparable protective effect to the existing daily pill which contains the older tenofovir and emtricitabine (Truvada), Dr Brad Hare of the Kaiser Permanente ...

  06 March 2019 | Roger Pebody

• Cocaine use associated with poor adherence to PrEP and dropping out of care

  Cocaine users have poorer adherence to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and engagement with care, according to research published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. Even light cocaine use doubled the odds of having ...

  22 February 2019 | Michael Carter

• Smoking, cholesterol, blood pressure are more important causes of disease than HIV in people living with HIV

  Preventing smoking, lowering cholesterol, controlling blood pressure and curing hepatitis C would greatly reduce the burden of heart attacks, non-AIDS cancers and end-stage liver disease and kidney disease in people living with HIV, according to an analysis of a large ...

  11 February 2019 | Keith Alcorn

• Improved liver function, but progressive kidney damage, among children on antiretroviral therapy in Ethiopia

  Among HIV-positive children with liver and kidney abnormalities, liver enzyme abnormalities improved while kidney function progressively deteriorated the longer the children were on antiretroviral therapy (ART). With the exception of nevirapine, the specific ART regimen did not have a significant ...

  02 January 2019 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Italian study shows growth in heart and kidney problems in people living with HIV

  Reduced kidney function, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease have each become more common in a large cohort of Italians living with HIV followed since 2004, with a majority of people now having high cholesterol and high blood pressure, ...

  28 December 2018 | Keith Alcorn

• How safe is PrEP? Meta-analysis finds no increased risk of serious side-effects

  A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of tenofovir or tenofovir/emtricitabine as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has found no increase in the risk of serious adverse health events over placebo. In particular, there was no increase in bone ...

  02 November 2018 | Gus Cairns

• Older age and baseline kidney function, not ARV choice, are key risk factors for chronic kidney disease in people with HIV in Australian cohort

  Older age and lower baseline kidney function are the only significant risk factors for the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in HIV-positive adults, investigators from Australia report in AIDS. No antiretroviral (ARV) drug was associated with a decline ...

  26 September 2018 | Michael Carter

• UK research shows that black patients of West African and Caribbean origin have higher rates of chronic kidney disease

  The risk of chronic and end-stage kidney disease among HIV-positive people of African ethnicity varies according to the region of origin and is highest among those of West African descent, according to UK research published in The Journal of ...

  20 August 2018 | Michael Carter

• Diabetes isn't adequately managed in women with HIV, says US research

  Optimum targets for control of type 2 diabetes are achieved in only 11% of women with HIV or at risk of HIV, according to US research published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. The proportion of women ...

  03 July 2018 | Michael Carter

• Kidney function declines faster in men on HIV treatment than for their HIV-negative peers

  Loss of kidney function in men with HIV is most strongly associated with antiretroviral therapy, an 11-year study of men living with HIV and their HIV-negative counterparts has found. The study found that men with HIV ...

  01 June 2018 | Keith Alcorn

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• Analysis Backs New Tenofovir’s Kidney Safety Over Old Version

  Researchers compared data on more than 9,000 people with HIV who took either version of tenofovir.

  11 July 2019 | POZ

• Patients with HIV less likely to be waitlisted for kidney transplant

  Patients with HIV were less likely to be placed on the kidney transplant waitlist than patients without HIV, according to research presented at the American Transplant Congress. They also experienced longer wait-times from evaluation to listing.

  25 June 2019 | Healio

• World’s First HIV-To-HIV Kidney Transplant With Living Donor Succeeds

  The world’s first kidney transplant from a living HIV-positive donor to another HIV-positive person was successfully performed Monday by doctors at a Johns Hopkins University hospital.

  29 March 2019 | Kaiser Health News

• Atlanta woman becomes country's first HIV+ living kidney donor

  If you ask Nina Martinez why she has fought so hard to become the first HIV + living kidney donor, her answer is pretty simple. "I just wanted to be just like anybody else," Martinez says. "I think, in 2019, this is going to blow a lot of peoples' minds. Because I'm sitting here today, as someone living for 35 years with HIV, and I'm about to donate this organ."

  29 March 2019 | FOX 5 Atlanta

• On-Demand PrEP With TDF/FTC Not Associated With Clinically Relevant Decline in Kidney Function

  On-demand pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)/emtricitabine (FTC) is not associated with a significant relevant in kidney function, especially among young people with low pill use and high baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate, investigators in France found.

  20 March 2019 | Contagion Live

• Tenofovir Alafenamide Linked to Fanconi Syndrome

  This case study is presented as a caution to clinicians that tenofovir alafenamide can cause Franconi Syndrome.

  12 February 2019 | Infectious Disease Advisor

• Making Transplant History

  Advocate John Tenorio could be the first HIV-positive person to receive a kidney from a living donor with HIV.

  23 November 2018 | Poz

• New study will probe safety of HIV-to-HIV kidney transplants

  A new study may pave the way for HIV-positive patients to receive organ transplants.The National Institutes of Health this month announced the launch of the HOPE in Action Multicenter Kidney Study to research the safety of kidney transplantation from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients.

  21 May 2018 | MD Magazine

• NIH Clinical Trial to Track Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation From HIV-Positive Donors to HIV-Positive Recipients

  The study will track the clinical outcomes of 160 kidney transplants. All transplant recipients in the study will be living with HIV; 80 of them will receive kidneys from deceased donors who had HIV, and 80 will receive kidneys from HIV-uninfected deceased donors serving as the control group.

  08 May 2018 | NIAID press release

• People With HIV and Kidney Disease Have Major Health Risks

  Researchers urge clinicians to closely monitor their patients with HIV and chronic kidney disease.

  09 March 2018 | Poz

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