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Official Guidelines and Registry Data of Renal Replacement Therapy

  1. The Japan Society for Blood Purification in Critical Care (JSBPCC) has reported survey results on blood purification therapy (BPT) for critically ill patients in 2005, 2009, and 2013. To clarify the current cl...

    Authors: Masanori Abe, Hidetoshi Shiga, Hiroomi Tatsumi, Yoshihiro Endo, Yoshihiko Kikuchi, Yasushi Suzuki, Kent Doi, Taka-Aki Nakada, Hiroyuki Nagafuchi, Noriyuki Hattori, Nobuyuki Hirohashi, Takeshi Moriguchi, Osamu Yamaga and Osamu Nishida
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:58
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  2. The present status of Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Mongolia, and Bhutan as of June 2019 was reviewed from the interviews of leading doctors in every country. The timing was until just 6 months before the ...

    Authors: Toru Hyodo, Akihiro C. Yamashita, Nobuhito Hirawa, Yoshitaka Isaka, Hidetomo Nakamoto and Takashi Shigematsu
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:54
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  3. In Japan, forgoing life-sustaining treatment to respect the will of patients at the terminal stage is not stipulated by law. According to the Guidelines for the Decision-Making Process in Terminal-Stage Health...

    Authors: Kazuyoshi Okada, Ken Tsuchiya, Ken Sakai, Takahiro Kuragano, Akiko Uchida, Kazuhiko Tsuruya, Tadashi Tomo, Chieko Hamada, Masafumi Fukagawa, Yoshindo Kawaguchi, Yuzo Watanabe, Kaoruko Aita, Yoshitatsu Ogawa, Junji Uchino, Hirokazu Okada, Yutaka Koda…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2021 7:56
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  4. This article is a duplicated publication from the Japanese version of “2019 JSDT Guidelines for Peritoneal Dialysis” with permission from the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT). This clinical practic...

    Authors: Munekazu Ryuzaki, Yasuhiko Ito, Hidetomo Nakamoto, Yuichi Ishikawa, Noritomo Itami, Minoru Ito, Atsushi Ueda, Yoshie Kanazawa, Hideki Kawanishi, Yoshihiko Kanno, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Kazuhiko Tsuruya, Hiroyuki Terawaki, Tadashi Tomo, Mizuya Fukasawa, Akihiro C. Yamashita…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2021 7:46
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  5. Approximately 10 years have passed since the Peritoneal Dialysis Guidelines were formulated in 2009. Much evidence has been reported during the succeeding years, which were not taken into consideration in the ...

    Authors: Yasuhiko Ito, Munekazu Ryuzaki, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Tadashi Tomo, Akihiro C. Yamashita, Yuichi Ishikawa, Atsushi Ueda, Yoshie Kanazawa, Yoshihiko Kanno, Noritomo Itami, Minoru Ito, Hideki Kawanishi, Masaaki Nakayama, Kazuhiko Tsuruya, Hideki Yokoi, Mizuya Fukasawa…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2021 7:40
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  6. The annual survey of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy Renal Data Registry (JRDR) was sent to 4458 dialysis facilities at the end of 2018; among these facilities, 4402 facilities (98.7%) responded to t...

    Authors: Kosaku Nitta, Shunsuke Goto, Ikuto Masakane, Norio Hanafusa, Masatomo Taniguchi, Takeshi Hasegawa, Shigeru Nakai, Atsushi Wada, Takayuki Hamano, Junichi Hoshino, Nobuhiko Joki, Masanori Abe, Keiichi Yamamoto and Hidetomo Nakamoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2020 6:41
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  7. Prolonged peritoneal dialysis (PD) is responsible for progressive morphological changes such as deterioration of the peritoneal membrane. These changes increase the risk of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (...

    Authors: Tohru Mizumasa, Kazuho Honda, Shigehisa Aoki, Chieko Hamada, Masanobu Miyazaki, Yasuhiko Ito, Yudo Tanno, Toshiaki Nakano and Masaaki Nakayama
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2020 6:8
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  8. The annual survey of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy Renal Data Registry (JRDR) was conducted for 4413 dialysis facilities at the end of 2017; among which 4360 facilities (98.8%) responded to the fac...

    Authors: Kosaku Nitta, Ikuto Masakane, Norio Hanafusa, Masatomo Taniguchi, Takeshi Hasegawa, Shigeru Nakai, Shunsuke Goto, Atsushi Wada, Takayuki Hamano, Junichi Hoshino, Nobuhiko Joki, Masaki Abe, Keichi Yamamoto and Hidetomo Nakamoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:53
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  9. In recent years, a concept of renal rehabilitation has become widely known among nephrology specialists, dialysis specialists, kidney transplantation specialists, rehabilitation specialists, nutrition speciali...

    Authors: Kunihiro Yamagata, Junichi Hoshino, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Norio Hanafusa, Yugo Shibagaki, Yasuhiro Komatsu, Tsuneo Konta, Naohiko Fujii, Eiichiro Kanda, Tadashi Sofue, Kiyonobu Ishizuka, Masashi Kitagawa, Keiji Kono, Norikazu Hinamoto, Takayuki Miyai, Kiyomi Koike…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:28
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:33

  10. Since 2015, the Committee for International Communication on Academic Research of the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy has held its Asian symposium during the society’s Annual Congress to discuss the pres...

    Authors: Toru Hyodo, Masafumi Fukagawa, Nobuhito Hirawa, Matsuhiko Hayashi, Kosaku Nitta, Sovandy Chan, Phanekham Souvannamethy, Minjur Dorji, Chuluuntsetseg Dorj and I. Gde Raka Widiana
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:12
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  11. We introduced criteria for the clinical diagnosis of dialysis-related amyloidosis (DRA) from the Amyloidosis Research Group study supported by a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of ...

    Authors: Shinichi Nishi, Suguru Yamamoto, Junichi Hoshino, Kenmei Takaichi and Hironobu Naiki
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:10
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  12. The number of kidney transplants has gradually increased in the last decade; it was 1742 in Japan in 2017. The outcomes have improved year by year, with the indications for transplantation expanding accordingl...

    Authors: Takashi Yagisawa, Makiko Mieno, Naotsugu Ichimaru, Ken Morita, Michio Nakamura, Kiyohiko Hotta, Takashi Kenmochi and Kenji Yuzawa
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2019 5:3
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  13. The annual survey of The Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy Renal Data Registry (JRDR) was conducted for 4396 dialysis facilities at the end of 2016, among which 4336 facilities (98.6%) responded. The response...

    Authors: Ikuto Masakane, Masatomo Taniguchi, Shigeru Nakai, Kenji Tsuchida, Atsushi Wada, Satoshi Ogata, Takeshi Hasegawa, Takayuki Hamano, Norio Hanafusa, Junichi Hoshino, Shunsuke Goto, Keiichi Yamamoto, Jun Minakuchi and Hidetomo Nakamoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2018 4:45
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  14. A newspaper article in August 2016 reported that about 40 medical facilities refused dialysis to a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patient. Infection Survey Subcommittee in the Japanese Society for Dialysis...

    Authors: Ayumi Yoshifuji, Munekazu Ryuzaki, Yasuhiko Ito, Norio Ohmagari, Yoshihiko Kanno, Toshio Shinoda, Yaoko Takano, Isao Tsukamoto, Kazuhiko Hora, Yasushi Nakazawa, Naoki Hasegawa, Tadashi Yoshida, Shu Wakino, Yoshiaki Takemoto and Hidetomo Nakamoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2018 4:41
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  15. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a syndrome which has a broad range of etiologic factors depending on different clinical settings. Because AKI has significant impacts on prognosis in any clinical settings, early d...

    Authors: Kent Doi, Osamu Nishida, Takashi Shigematsu, Tomohito Sadahiro, Noritomo Itami, Kunitoshi Iseki, Yukio Yuzawa, Hirokazu Okada, Daisuke Koya, Hideyasu Kiyomoto, Yugo Shibagaki, Kenichi Matsuda, Akihiko Kato, Terumasa Hayashi, Tomonari Ogawa, Tatsuo Tsukamoto…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2018 4:36
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  16. The annual survey of Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy Renal Data Registry (JRDR) was conducted for 4380 dialysis facilities at the end of 2015, among which 4321 facilities (98.7%) responded. The response ...

    Authors: Ikuto Masakane, Masatomo Taniguchi, Shigeru Nakai, Kenji Tsuchida, Shunsuke Goto, Atsushi Wada, Satoshi Ogata, Takeshi Hasegawa, Takayuki Hamano, Norio Hanafusa, Junichi Hoshino, Jun Minakuchi and Hidetomo Nakamoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2018 4:19
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  17. Renal anemia is a complication of chronic kidney disease. Guidelines for safe and effective treatment in patients with renal anemia are needed. The Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) published guidel...

    Authors: Hiroyasu Yamamoto, Shinichi Nishi, Tadashi Tomo, Ikuto Masakane, Kazuhide Saito, Masaomi Nangaku, Motoshi Hattori, Takahiro Suzuki, Satoshi Morita, Akira Ashida, Yasuhiko Ito, Takahiro Kuragano, Yasuhiro Komatsu, Ken Sakai, Yoshiharu Tsubakihara, Kazuhiko Tsuruya…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2017 3:36
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  18. Since 2009, the peritoneal dialysis (PD) registry has been carried out as part of Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) Renal Data Registry with the cooperation of Japanese Society for Peritoneal Dialys...

    Authors: Ikuto Masakane, Takeshi Hasegawa, Satoshi Ogata, Naoki Kimata, Shigeru Nakai, Norio Hanafusa, Takayuki Hamano, Kenji Wakai, Atsushi Wada and Kosaku Nitta
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2017 3:21
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  19. The Scientific Academy Committee of Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) has developed 14 clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and their revised editions independently or in cooperation with other organ...

    Authors: Kosaku Nitta, Ikuto Masakane, Tadashi Tomo, Kenji Tsuchida, Kiyoshi Ikeda, Tomonari Ogawa, Eiichiro Kanda, Yoshihiko Kanno, Yasuhiro Komatsu, Masatomo Taniguchi, Fumika Taki, Takeshi Hasegawa, Norio Hanafusa, Takayuki Hamano, Masafumi Fukagawa, Jun Minakuchi…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2017 3:34
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  20. The Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) has performed a nationwide renal data registry since 1966. The data from the survey have been used for promoting dialysis facilities to improve dialysis quality...

    Authors: Ikuto Masakane, Shigeru Nakai, Satoshi Ogata, Naoki Kimata, Norio Hanafusa, Takayuki Hamano, Kenji Wakai, Atsushi Wada and Kosaku Nitta
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2017 3:18
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  21. Currently, the Asian region is showing marked population growth and economic progress. In developing countries in Asia, rapid demands for dialysis therapy which have the same standard as those delivered in dev...

    Authors: Toru Hyodo, Nobuhito Hirawa, Matsuhiko Hayashi, Khin Maung Maung Than, Do Gia Tuyen, Korntip Pattanasittangkur, Liu Wen Hu, Tomotaka Naramura, Kenichi Miyamoto and Akihiro C. Yamashita
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2017 3:11
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  22. The first deceased and living donor kidney transplants were performed in 1956 and 1964 in Japan, respectively. Larger numbers of transplants were performed after the introduction of cyclosporine in 1983. After...

    Authors: Takashi Yagisawa, Makiko Mieno, Norio Yoshimura, Kenji Yuzawa and Shiro Takahara
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2016 2:68
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