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Perspectives of chronic renal failure
Author(s) -
Kurokawa Kiyoshi,
Nangaku Masaomi,
Inagi Reiko,
Miyata Toshio
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1440-1797
pISSN - 1320-5358
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1797.7.s3.18.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , dialysis , chronic renal failure , transplantation , chronic renal disease , end stage renal disease , disease , diabetic nephropathy , kidney disease , kidney
SUMMARY:End‐stage renal disease (ESRD) is a major source of morbidity and the increasing number of chronic dialysis patients is a significant health‐care issue in many developed as well as developing countries. In the present brief review the current status of chronic dialysis is discussed; and Japan and the USA, two major countries in which chronic dialysis programmes are well developed, are compared. Also discussed is the economic impact, the status of renal transplantation and its future possibilities, recent efforts to halt progression of chronic renal disease, in particular, diabetic nephropathy (which has become the major cause of ESRD in many developed countries), and future perspectives in renal research. It is hoped that, in the future, perhaps by the mid‐21st century, chronic dialysis may become the exception in therapy through our efforts.