Uremia is most often due to kidney failure from advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). Common symptoms include nausea, vomiting, weight loss, lower-stomach pain, and fatigue. Without treatment in ...

An editorialist challenges the current clinical focus on initiating HD at the earliest signs of uremic symptoms irrespective of eGFR, because this study and others (including a recent randomized ...

Figure 1: Non-contrast CT scans of the abdomen. Hemodialysis was initiated for uremic symptoms, but was discontinued following bilateral nephrostomy-tube placement and given improvements in her ...