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Pro: The rationale for dietary therapy for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease.
Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation 2018 March 2
Dietary treatment offers many benefits to patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are approaching the need for renal replacement therapy. A large number of these benefits are independent of whether diets slow the rate of progression of CKD. These diets are low in protein and many minerals, and provide adequate energy for the CKD patient. The diets can reduce accumulation of potentially toxic metabolic products derived from protein and amino acid degradation, maintain a healthier balance of body water, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, calcium and other minerals, and prevent or improve protein-energy wasting. Such diets may enable patients to safely delay the onset of chronic dialysis therapy or kidney transplantation. Dietary therapy may also augment the effectiveness of infrequent or incremental dialysis by maintaining healthier metabolic and clinical status and may enable some end-stage renal disease patients to avoid the need for temporary placement of hemodialysis catheters while their arterial venous fistulae or grafts mature. The anxiety that many advanced CKD patients commonly experience with regard to starting dialysis may incentivize them to accept and adhere to dietary therapy.
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