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Key Comorbid Conditions that Are Predictive of Survival among Hemodialysis Patients.

Miskulin D, Bragg-Gresham J, Gillespie BW, Tentori F, Pisoni RL, Tighiouart H, Levey AS, Port FK.

Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2009 Sep 24. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 19808231 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]Related articles

A comprehensive risk quantification score for deceased donor kidneys: the kidney donor risk index.

Rao PS, Schaubel DE, Guidinger MK, Andreoni KA, Wolfe RA, Merion RM, Port FK, Sung RS.

Transplantation. 2009 Jul 27;88(2):231-6.PMID: 19623019 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Prescription of antihypertensive agents to haemodialysis patients: time trends and associations with patient characteristics, country and survival in the DOPPS.

Lopes AA, Bragg-Gresham JL, Ramirez SP, Andreucci VE, Akiba T, Saito A, Jacobson SH, Robinson BM, Port FK, Mason NA, Young EW.

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2009 Sep;24(9):2809-16. Epub 2009 May 14.PMID: 19443648 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

Rosiglitazone is associated with mortality in chronic hemodialysis patients.

Ramirez SP, Albert JM, Blayney MJ, Tentori F, Goodkin DA, Wolfe RA, Young EW, Bailie GR, Pisoni RL, Port FK.

J Am Soc Nephrol. 2009 May;20(5):1094-101. Epub 2009 Apr 8.PMID: 19357257 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Trends in organ donation and transplantation in the United States, 1998-2007.

Wolfe RA, Merion RM, Roys EC, Port FK.

Am J Transplant. 2009 Apr;9(4 Pt 2):869-78. No abstract available. PMID: 19341412 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Facility hemodialysis vascular access use and mortality in countries participating in DOPPS: an instrumental variable analysis.

Pisoni RL, Arrington CJ, Albert JM, Ethier J, Kimata N, Krishnan M, Rayner HC, Saito A, Sands JJ, Saran R, Gillespie B, Wolfe RA, Port FK.

Am J Kidney Dis. 2009 Mar;53(3):475-91. Epub 2009 Jan 15.PMID: 19150158 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The survival advantage for haemodialysis patients taking vitamin D is questioned: findings from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study.

Tentori F, Albert JM, Young EW, Blayney MJ, Robinson BM, Pisoni RL, Akiba T, Greenwood RN, Kimata N, Levin NW, Piera LM, Saran R, Wolfe RA, Port FK.

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2009 Mar;24(3):963-72. Epub 2008 Nov 21.PMID: 19028748 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Consistent aspirin use associated with improved arteriovenous fistula survival among incident hemodialysis patients in the dialysis outcomes and practice patterns study.

Hasegawa T, Elder SJ, Bragg-Gresham JL, Pisoni RL, Yamazaki S, Akizawa T, Jadoul M, Hugh RC, Port FK, Fukuhara S.

Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008 Sep;3(5):1373-8. Epub 2008 Jul 2.PMID: 18596119 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Japanese haemodialysis anaemia management practices and outcomes (1999-2006): results from the DOPPS.

Akizawa T, Pisoni RL, Akiba T, Saito A, Fukuhara S, Asano Y, Hasegawa T, Port FK, Kurokawa K.

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2008 Nov;23(11):3643-53. Epub 2008 Jun 24.PMID: 18577535 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Impact of immunosuppressive regimen on survival of kidney transplant recipients with hepatitis C.

Luan FL, Schaubel DE, Zhang H, Jia X, Pelletier SJ, Port FK, Magee JC, Sung RS.

Transplantation. 2008 Jun 15;85(11):1601-6.PMID: 18551066 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

High alkaline phosphatase levels in hemodialysis patients are associated with higher risk of hospitalization and death.

Blayney MJ, Pisoni RL, Bragg-Gresham JL, Bommer J, Piera L, Saito A, Akiba T, Keen ML, Young EW, Port FK.

Kidney Int. 2008 Sep;74(5):655-63. Epub 2008 Jun 11.PMID: 18547993 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Mortality risk for dialysis patients with different levels of serum calcium, phosphorus, and PTH: the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS).

Tentori F, Blayney MJ, Albert JM, Gillespie BW, Kerr PG, Bommer J, Young EW, Akizawa T, Akiba T, Pisoni RL, Robinson BM, Port FK.

Am J Kidney Dis. 2008 Sep;52(3):519-30. Epub 2008 Jun 2.PMID: 18514987 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The role of donor-recipient relationship in long-term outcomes of living donor renal transplantation.

Miles CD, Schaubel DE, Liu D, Port FK, Rao PS.

Transplantation. 2008 May 27;85(10):1483-8.PMID: 18497690 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Evaluation of dialysis performance measures.

Wolfe RA, Port FK.

Am J Kidney Dis. 2008 May;51(5):867-8; author reply 868-9. No abstract available. PMID: 18436103 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

A practice-related risk score (PRS): a DOPPS-derived aggregate quality index for haemodialysis facilities.

Mendelssohn DC, Pisoni RL, Arrington CJ, Yeates KE, Leblanc M, Deziel C, Akiba T, Krishnan M, Fukuhara S, Lameire N, Port FK, Wolfe RA.

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2008 Oct;23(10):3227-33. Epub 2008 Apr 18.PMID: 18424461 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

[DOPPS estimate of patient life years attributable to modifiable hemodialysis practices in France]

Canaud B, Combe C, Bragg-Gresham JL, Eichleay MA, Pisoni RL, Port FK.

Nephrol Ther. 2008 Jul;4(4):256-65. Epub 2008 Apr 15. French. PMID: 18417439 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Travel time to dialysis as a predictor of health-related quality of life, adherence, and mortality: the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS).

Moist LM, Bragg-Gresham JL, Pisoni RL, Saran R, Akiba T, Jacobson SH, Fukuhara S, Mapes DL, Rayner HC, Saito A, Port FK.

Am J Kidney Dis. 2008 Apr;51(4):641-50. Epub 2008 Mar 3.PMID: 18371540 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Transplants in Foreign Countries Among Patients Removed from the US Transplant Waiting List.

Merion RM, Barnes AD, Lin M, Ashby VB, McBride V, Ortiz-Rios E, Welch JC, Levine GN, Port FK, Burdick J.

Am J Transplant. 2008 Apr;8(4 Pt 2):988-96.PMID: 18336701 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Trends in organ donation and transplantation in the United States, 1997-2006.

Port FK, Merion RM, Roys EC, Wolfe RA.

Am J Transplant. 2008 Apr;8(4 Pt 2):911-21. No abstract available. PMID: 18336695 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Determinants of discard of expanded criteria donor kidneys: impact of biopsy and machine perfusion.

Sung RS, Christensen LL, Leichtman AB, Greenstein SM, Distant DA, Wynn JJ, Stegall MD, Delmonico FL, Port FK.

Am J Transplant. 2008 Apr;8(4):783-92. Epub 2008 Feb 19.PMID: 18294347 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Insurance type and minority status associated with large disparities in prelisting dialysis among candidates for kidney transplantation.

Keith D, Ashby VB, Port FK, Leichtman AB.

Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008 Mar;3(2):463-70. Epub 2008 Jan 16.PMID: 18199847 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Hospitalization patterns before and after liver transplantation.

Schaubel DE, Wei G, Dykstra DM, Port FK, Merion RM.

Transplantation. 2007 Dec 27;84(12):1590-4.PMID: 18165769 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Effect of body mass index on the survival benefit of liver transplantation.

Pelletier SJ, Schaubel DE, Wei G, Englesbe MJ, Punch JD, Wolfe RA, Port FK, Merion RM.

Liver Transpl. 2007 Dec;13(12):1678-83.PMID: 18044787 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Impact of the expanded criteria donor allocation system on candidates for and recipients of expanded criteria donor kidneys.

Sung RS, Guidinger MK, Leichtman AB, Lake C, Metzger RA, Port FK, Merion RM.

Transplantation. 2007 Nov 15;84(9):1138-44.PMID: 17998869 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Reverse epidemiology: a confusing, confounding, and inaccurate term.

Levin NW, Handelman GJ, Coresh J, Port FK, Kaysen GA.

Semin Dial. 2007 Nov-Dec;20(6):586-92. Review.PMID: 17991209 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

[DOPPS estimate of patient life years attributable to modifiable hemodialysis practices in Spain]

Piera L, Cruz JM, Braga-Gresham JL, Eichleay MA, Pisoni RL, Port FK.

Nefrologia. 2007;27(4):496-504. Spanish. PMID: 17944588 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Sleep quality predicts quality of life and mortality risk in haemodialysis patients: results from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS).

Elder SJ, Pisoni RL, Akizawa T, Fissell R, Andreucci VE, Fukuhara S, Kurokawa K, Rayner HC, Furniss AL, Port FK, Saran R.

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2008 Mar;23(3):998-1004. Epub 2007 Oct 1.PMID: 17911092 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Lack of appetite in haemodialysis patients--associations with patient characteristics, indicators of nutritional status and outcomes in the international DOPPS.

Lopes AA, Elder SJ, Ginsberg N, Andreucci VE, Cruz JM, Fukuhara S, Mapes DL, Saito A, Pisoni RL, Saran R, Port FK.

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2007 Dec;22(12):3538-46. Epub 2007 Sep 24.PMID: 17893106 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Predictors of early mortality among incident US hemodialysis patients in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS).

Bradbury BD, Fissell RB, Albert JM, Anthony MS, Critchlow CW, Pisoni RL, Port FK, Gillespie BW.

Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2007 Jan;2(1):89-99. Epub 2006 Nov 29.PMID: 17699392 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Improving outcomes for dialysis patients in the international Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study.

Port FK, Pisoni RL, Bommer J, Locatelli F, Jadoul M, Eknoyan G, Kurokawa K, Canaud BJ, Finley MP, Young EW.

Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2006 Mar;1(2):246-55. Epub 2006 Feb 1. Review.PMID: 17699213 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Optimizing hemodialysis practices in Canada could improve patient survival.

Yeates KE, Mendelssohn DC, Ethier J, Trpeski L, Na J, Bragg-Gresham JL, Eichleay MA, Pisoni RL, Port FK.

CANNT J. 2007 Apr-Jun;17(2):22-34. English, French. PMID: 17691708 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The organization and financing of end-stage renal disease treatment in Japan.

Fukuhara S, Yamazaki C, Hayashino Y, Higashi T, Eichleay MA, Akiba T, Akizawa T, Saito A, Port FK, Kurokawa K.

Int J Health Care Finance Econ. 2007 Sep;7(2-3):217-31. Review.PMID: 17690980 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Association of mineral metabolism factors with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in hemodialysis patients: the Japan dialysis outcomes and practice patterns study.

Kimata N, Albert JM, Akiba T, Yamazaki S, Kawaguchi T, Fukuhara S, Akizawa T, Saito A, Asano Y, Kurokawa K, Pisoni RL, Port FK.

Hemodial Int. 2007 Jul;11(3):340-8. Erratum in: Hemodial Int. 2009 Jan;13(1):91. Kawaguchi, Yoshindo [corrected to Kawaguchi,Takehiko]. PMID: 17576300 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

[DOPPS estimate of guideline impact on survival in hemodialysis in Italy.]

Pontoriero G, Locatelli F, Andreucci VE, Bragg-Gresham J, Eichleavy MA, Pisoni RL, Port FK.

G Ital Nefrol. 2007 May-Jun;24(3):221-9. Italian. PMID: 17554734 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

Dopps estimate of patient life years attributable to modifiable haemodialysis practices in Belgium.

Jadoul M, Lameire N, Bragg-Gresham JL, Eichleay MA, Pisoni RL, Port FK.

Acta Clin Belg. 2007 Mar-Apr;62(2):102-10. Erratum in: Acta Clin Belg. 2007 May-Jun;62(3):191. PMID: 17547291 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Renal transplantation in elderly patients older than 70 years of age: results from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.

Rao PS, Merion RM, Ashby VB, Port FK, Wolfe RA, Kayler LK.

Transplantation. 2007 Apr 27;83(8):1069-74.PMID: 17452897 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Geographic variability in access to primary kidney transplantation in the United States, 1996-2005.

Ashby VB, Kalbfleisch JD, Wolfe RA, Lin MJ, Port FK, Leichtman AB.

Am J Transplant. 2007;7(5 Pt 2):1412-23.PMID: 17428289 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Trends in organ donation and transplantation in the United States, 1996-2005.

Port FK, Merion RM, Finley MP, Goodrich NP, Wolfe RA.

Am J Transplant. 2007;7(5 Pt 2):1319-26. No abstract available. PMID: 17428282 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

DOPPS estimate of patient life years attributable to modifiable hemodialysis practices in Canada.

Mendelssohn DC, Yeates KE, Ethier J, Trpeski L, Na Y, Bragg-Gresham JL, Eichleay MA, Pisoni RL, Port FK.

Nephrol News Issues. 2007 Apr;21(5):69-70, 72, 74-6 passim.PMID: 17427445 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Development and current status of ECD kidney transplantation.

Sung RS, Guidinger MK, Christensen LL, Ashby VB, Merion RM, Leichtman AB, Port FK.

Clin Transpl. 2005:37-55.PMID: 17424724 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Diabetes, glycaemic control and mortality risk in patients on haemodialysis: the Japan Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Pattern Study.

Hayashino Y, Fukuhara S, Akiba T, Akizawa T, Asano Y, Saito A, Bragg-Gresham JL, Ramirez SP, Port FK, Kurokawa K.

Diabetologia. 2007 Jun;50(6):1170-7. Epub 2007 Mar 29.PMID: 17393134 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Mortality experience in recipients undergoing repeat transplantation with expanded criteria donor and non-ECD deceased-donor kidneys.

Miles CD, Schaubel DE, Jia X, Ojo AO, Port FK, Rao PS.

Am J Transplant. 2007 May;7(5):1140-7. Epub 2007 Feb 27.PMID: 17331109 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Hypercalcaemia is associated with poor mental health in haemodialysis patients: results from Japan DOPPS.

Tanaka M, Yamazaki S, Hayashino Y, Fukuhara S, Akiba T, Saito A, Asano Y, Port FK, Kurokawa K, Akizawa T.

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2007 Jun;22(6):1658-64. Epub 2007 Feb 13.PMID: 17298993 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Factors associated with health-related quality of life among hemodialysis patients in the DOPPS.

Lopes AA, Bragg-Gresham JL, Goodkin DA, Fukuhara S, Mapes DL, Young EW, Gillespie BW, Akizawa T, Greenwood RN, Andreucci VE, Akiba T, Held PJ, Port FK.

Qual Life Res. 2007 May;16(4):545-57. Epub 2007 Feb 8. Erratum in: Qual Life Res. 2007 Aug;16(6):1095. PMID: 17286199 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Survival on dialysis post-kidney transplant failure: results from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.

Rao PS, Schaubel DE, Jia X, Li S, Port FK, Saran R.

Am J Kidney Dis. 2007 Feb;49(2):294-300.PMID: 17261432 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

International differences in dialysis mortality reflect background general population atherosclerotic cardiovascular mortality.

Yoshino M, Kuhlmann MK, Kotanko P, Greenwood RN, Pisoni RL, Port FK, Jager KJ, Homel P, Augustijn H, de Charro FT, Collart F, Erek E, Finne P, Garcia-Garcia G, Grönhagen-Riska C, Ioannidis GA, Ivis F, Leivestad T, Løkkegaard H, Lopot F, Jin DC, Kramar R, Nakao T, Nandakumar M, Ramirez S, van der Sande FM, Schön S, Simpson K, Walker RG, Zaluska W, Levin NW.

J Am Soc Nephrol. 2006 Dec;17(12):3510-9. Epub 2006 Nov 15.PMID: 17108318 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Peripheral arterial disease in patients with end-stage renal disease: observations from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS).

Rajagopalan S, Dellegrottaglie S, Furniss AL, Gillespie BW, Satayathum S, Lameire N, Saito A, Akiba T, Jadoul M, Ginsberg N, Keen M, Port FK, Mukherjee D, Saran R.

Circulation. 2006 Oct 31;114(18):1914-22. Epub 2006 Oct 23.PMID: 17060384 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Revisiting survival differences by race and ethnicity among hemodialysis patients: the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study.

Robinson BM, Joffe MM, Pisoni RL, Port FK, Feldman HI.

J Am Soc Nephrol. 2006 Oct;17(10):2910-8. Epub 2006 Sep 20.PMID: 16988065 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

A sequential stratification method for estimating the effect of a time-dependent experimental treatment in observational studies.

Schaubel DE, Wolfe RA, Port FK.

Biometrics. 2006 Sep;62(3):910-7.PMID: 16984335 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Pruritus in haemodialysis patients: International results from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS).

Pisoni RL, Wikström B, Elder SJ, Akizawa T, Asano Y, Keen ML, Saran R, Mendelssohn DC, Young EW, Port FK.

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2006 Dec;21(12):3495-505. Epub 2006 Sep 12.PMID: 16968725 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article