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Category: RFH Research Projects

Update on the Sodium Balance research

28/06/202228/06/2022

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

28/06/202228/06/2022

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…

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How we use donated funds, RFH Research Projects

The experience of BAME patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

27/04/202201/11/2022

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…

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Protect V – A study to trial a prophylactic treatment against COVID for dialysis and any immunosuppressed patients

12/01/202205/02/2022

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…

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Pilot study of pedalling during a haemodialysis session

20/07/202120/07/2021

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…

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Can you a play a part in greater patient involvement in planning renal research?

18/07/202112/01/2022

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…

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RFH Research Projects

Do you agree with Organ Donation?

17/07/202118/07/2021

If you do, then the following position may be of interest to you.

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News, RFH Research Projects

Study provides new insights on COVID-19 risk in patients receiving dialysis

27/06/202127/06/2021

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:

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Royal Free surgeon’s link to online presentation

14/06/202107/07/2021

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…

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Research paves the way for ‘customised’ kidney transplants

30/04/202130/04/2021

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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