Novel therapeutic approaches in chronic kidney disease and uremia management

摘要

With the worldwide epidemic of chronic noncom-municable diseases, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the growing public health problems and can progress to kidney failure, also known as the end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) in form of maintenance dialysis or kidney transplantation. Dialysis therapy is often associated with decreased quality of life (QoL) and high morbidity and mortality [1] in addition to economic burden and high costs [2],