Renal Association Clinical Practice Guidelines

Clinical practice guideline on pregnancy and renal disease

Authors: Kate Wiles, Lucy Chappell, Katherine Clark, Louise Elman, Matt Hall, Liz Lightstone, Germin Mohamed, Durba Mukherjee, Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Philip Webster, Rebecca Whybrow and Kate Bramham

Clinical practice guideline management of blood borne viruses within the haemodialysis unit

Some people who are receiving dialysis treatment have virus infection such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and/or HIV that is present in their blood. These infections can be transmitted to other patients if blood ...

Authors: Elizabeth Garthwaite, Veena Reddy, Sam Douthwaite, Simon Lines, Kay Tyerman and James Eccles

Renal Association Clinical Practice Guideline on Haemodialysis

This guideline is written primarily for doctors and nurses working in dialysis units and related areas of medicine in the UK, and is an update of a previous version written in 2009. It aims to provide guidance...

Authors: Damien Ashby, Natalie Borman, James Burton, Richard Corbett, Andrew Davenport, Ken Farrington, Katey Flowers, James Fotheringham, R. N. Andrea Fox, Gail Franklin, Claire Gardiner, R. N. Martin Gerrish, Sharlene Greenwood, Daljit Hothi, Abdul Khares, Pelagia Koufaki…

Clinical practice guideline on undernutrition in chronic kidney disease

Authors: Mark Wright, Elizabeth Southcott, Helen MacLaughlin and Stuart Wineberg

Clinical practice guideline monitoring children and young people with, or at risk of developing autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD)

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is thought to affect about 1 in 1000 people in the UK. ADPKD causes a progressive decline in kidney function, with kidney failure tending to occur in middle...

Authors: Jan Dudley, Paul Winyard, Matko Marlais, Oliver Cuthell, Tess Harris, Jiehan Chong, John Sayer, Daniel P. Gale, Lucy Moore, Kay Turner, Sarah Burrows and Richard Sandford

Renal association commentary on the KDIGO (2017) clinical practice guideline update for the diagnosis, evaluation, prevention, and treatment of CKD-MBD

This report comments on the relevance and utility of the recently published (2017) KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline Update for the diagnosis, evaluation, prevention and treatment of mineral bone disease in pa...

Authors: James O. Burton, David J. Goldsmith, Nicki Ruddock, Rukshana Shroff and Mandy Wan

Renal association clinical practice guideline on Anaemia of Chronic Kidney Disease

Anaemia is a commonly diagnosed complication among patients suffering with chronic kidney disease. If left untreated, it may affect patient quality of life. There are several causes for anaemia in this patient...

Authors: Ashraf Mikhail, Christopher Brown, Jennifer Ann Williams, Vinod Mathrani, Rajesh Shrivastava, Jonathan Evans, Hayleigh Isaac and Sunil Bhandari

Renal Association Clinical Practice Guideline on peritoneal dialysis in adults and children

These guidelines cover all aspects of the care of patients who are treated with peritoneal dialysis. This includes equipment and resources, preparation for peritoneal dialysis, and adequacy of dialysis (both i...

Authors: Graham Woodrow, Stanley L. Fan, Christopher Reid, Jeannette Denning and Andrew Neil Pyrah

Renal association clinical practice guideline in post-operative care in the kidney transplant recipient

These guidelines cover the care of patients from the period following kidney transplantation until the transplant is no longer working or the patient dies. During the early phase prevention of acute rejection ...

Authors: Richard J. Baker, Patrick B. Mark, Rajan K. Patel, Kate K. Stevens and Nicholas Palmer