Rakhi Maiwall, Satender Pal Singh, Paolo Angeli, Richard Moreau et al.
Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a syndrome that is characterized by the rapid development of organ failures predisposing these patients to a high risk of short-term early death. The main causes of organ failure in these patients are bacterial infections and systemic inflammation, both of wh...
Raja Ramachandran, Vinant Bhargava, Sanjiv Jasuja, Maurizio Gallieni et al.
South and Southeast Asia is the most populated, heterogeneous part of the world. The Association of Vascular Access and InTerventionAl Renal physicians (AVATAR Foundation), India, gathered trends on epidemiology and Interventional Nephrology (IN) for this region. The countries were divided as upper-...
Vinant Bhargava, Sanjiv Jasuja, Sydney Tang, Anil Kumar Bhalla et al.
BACKGROUND: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) as a modality of kidney replacement therapy (KRT) is largely underutilized globally. We analyzed PD utilization, impact of economic status, projected growth and impact of state policy(s) on PD growth in South Asia and Southeast Asia (SA&SEA) region. METHODS: The ...
Suceena Alexander, Sanjiv Jasuja, Maurizio Gallieni, Manisha Sahay et al.
Background. The association between economic status and kidney disease is incompletely explored even in countries with higher economy (HE); the situation is complex in lower economies (LE) of South Asia and Southeast Asia (SA and SEA). Methods. Fifteen countries of SA and SEA categorized as HE and L...
Manisha Sahay, Sanjiv Jasuja, Sydney Tang, Suceena Alexander et al.
AIM: There is paucity of data on the epidemiology of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) from South Asia and South-East Asia. The objective of this study was to assess the aetiology, practice patterns and disease burden and growth of ESKD in the region comparing the economies. METHODS: The national neph...
Sanjiv Jasuja, Maurizio Gallieni, Vivekanand Jha, Tushar J. Vachharajani et al.
AIM: This cross-sectional survey aimed to determine the prevalence of Interventional Nephrology (IN) practice amongst nephrologists in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR), specifically related to dialysis access (DA). METHODS: The Association of VA and intervenTionAl Renal physicians (AVATAR) Foundation f...