By Roohi Chhabra (Renal SpR ST6) The project is going well. We have collected fresh and effluent dialysate samples from 105 haemodialysis patients and have measured its sodium concentration (using indirect potentiometry/lab method). Dietary assessment of sodium intake has been assessed using food frequency questionnaire…
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RFHKPA playing a part in vital renal research
Looking at the sodium balance in dialysis patients We are often requested to make observations on clinical studies that can benefit renal patients and these observations can be followed up by grant requests for financial support. One such project was a clinical study with Prof…
Read ArticleThe experience of BAME patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
Dr Kerry Rosenberg BSc, MBBS, MRCP, Renal Registrar, Royal Free Hospital is carrying out research into “Dialysis decision making in advanced CKD – examining the experience of BAME patients in the UK”. The perspectives and experiences of people living with kidney disease are invaluable in…
Read ArticleProtect V – A study to trial a prophylactic treatment against COVID for dialysis and any immunosuppressed patients
The Royal Free Renal Research team invite you to take part in this research trial. This is on top of any vaccination; this does not exclude people who are not vaccinated. This is not a treatment for people WITH COVID but a prophylactic to prevent…
Read ArticlePilot study of pedalling during a haemodialysis session
Andrew Davenport (Professor of Dialysis & ICU Nephrology, UCL Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, University College London) has supplied a brief article on a research project in which a number of our patients took part: “Kidney dialysis patients are at an increased risk…
Read ArticleCan you a play a part in greater patient involvement in planning renal research?
I am Professor Alan Salama, (Professor and Honorary Consultant in Nephrology, Director UCL Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Free Hospital). We are trying at the Royal Free Kidney unit to get greater patient involvement into planning research and organising research priorities. We are trying different…
Read ArticleDo you agree with Organ Donation?
If you do, then the following position may be of interest to you.
Read ArticleStudy provides new insights on COVID-19 risk in patients receiving dialysis
A major study led by doctors at the Royal Free London (RFL) reveals that face masks and the use of side rooms to deliver care can dramatically reduce the risk to dialysis patients of contracting COVID-19. For more details please click the link below:
Read ArticleRoyal Free surgeon’s link to online presentation
Reza Motallebzadeh is a kidney transplant surgeon and scientist based at Royal Free Hospital and UCL. His research aims are to understand why and how transplants get rejected by the body’s immune system. He has teamed up with UCL engineers to develop a novel device…
Read ArticleResearch paves the way for ‘customised’ kidney transplants
from L-R – Professor Hans Stauss, director of the UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, Dr Mark Harber, consultant nephrologist with a special interest in transplantation and Professor Alan Salama, renal consultant. Our doctors at the Royal Free Hospital (RFH) have identified a biological marker…
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