Markus Ketteler, Geoffrey A Block, Pieter Evenepoel, Masafumi Fukagawa, Charles A Herzog, Linda McCann, Sharon M Moe, Rukshana Shroff, Marcello A Tonelli, Nigel D Toussaint, Marc G Vervloet, Mary B Leonard
The KDIGO 2017 Clinical Practice Guideline Update for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, Prevention, and Treatment of CKD-MBD represents a selective update of the prior CKD-MBD Guideline published in 2009. This update, along with the 2009 publication, is intended to assist the practitioner caring for adults and children with chronic kidney disease (CKD), those on chronic dialysis therapy, or individuals with a kidney transplant. This review highlights key aspects of the 2017 CKD-MBD Guideline Update, with an emphasis on the rationale for the changes made to the original guideline document...
July 2017: Kidney International