M. Kessler

TL;DR: Catheters, especially long-term implanted catheters), were found to be the leading risk factor of bacteremia in chronic hemodialysis patients, but anemia linked to resistance to erythropoietin appeared to be a possible risk factor for bacterenmia.

TL;DR: An imbalance in the IgA-producing system of patients with Berger's disease is demonstrated, which is in keeping with the hypothesis favoring a mucosal origin for the mesangial IgA present in their kidneys.

TL;DR: In conclusion, incompatibility between graft and recipient weight is an independent predictor of long-term graft survival, suggesting that avoiding kidney and recipients weight incompatibility may improve late clinical outcome after kidney transplantation.

TL;DR: It is reported that the smallest kidneys transplanted into the largest recipients (donor kidney weight/recipient body weight [DKW/RBW] <2 g/kg, n = 88) increased their clearance by 2.38 ml/min every month for 6 mo (P < 0.0001).

TL;DR: This study failed to demonstrate a significant association between intravenous iron administration and the risk of bacteremia in dialysis patients, however, there might be a slightly increased risk in patients given high-frequency, high-dose intravenous Iron.