Cochrane Renal Group

Registered Cochrane Renal Titles

The following renal titles are 'works in progress' and have been registered with the Cochrane Renal Group.

Registered titles

  • Adjunctive medical expulsive therapy for renal and ureteral stone fragments immediately following shock wave lithotripsy. Trevor Schuler (Canada)
  • Alpha-blockers as medical-expulsive therapy for ureteral stones. Yefang zhu (Netherlands)
  • Amino acid containing peritoneal dialysis solutions for peritoneal dialysis patients. Per Ivarsen (Denmark)
  • Antibiotic lock therapy for preventing dialysis catheter related infections in hemodialysis patients. Sankar Navaneethan (USA)
  • Antiplatelet agents for people with chronic kidney disease not requiring dialysis. Giovanni Strippoli (Australia)
  • Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) for rhabdomyolysis. Ping Fu (China)
  • Cystatin C versus serum creatinine or MDRD eGFR for estimating the glomerular filtration rate in adults and children. Jenny Doust (Australia)
  • Darbepoetin for anaemia in chronic renal failure
  • Dialysate temperature control for haemodialysis
  • Diuretics for nephrotic syndrome
  • Family based interventions for promoting psychosocial adjustment in solid organ transplant recipients
  • Haemodialysis duration and frequency for end-stage kidney disease. Vlado Perkovic (Australia)
  • HMG CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) for preventing acute kidney injury after surgical procedures requiring cardiac bypass. Patrick Murray (Ireland)
  • Interventions for lowering plasma homocysteine levels in predialysis patients. Kingsley Urakpo (UK)
  • Interventions for malnutrition in chronic kidney disease
  • Interventions for preventing catheter-related infection in haemodialysis patients
  • Interventions for preventing bone disease in chronic kidney disease
  • Interventions for treating hypertension in adults and children with acute post infectious glomerulonephritis. Thara Basavaiah (Antigua and Barbuda)
  • Interventions for treating sexual dysfunction in patients with chronic kidney disease. Mariacristina Vecchio (Italy)
  • Iron supplements for patients with ESRF receiving erythropoietin
  • Levocaritine for chronic renal failure/ Giovanni Strippoli (Italy)
  • Lipid lowering agents for preventing and delaying the progression of chronic kidney disease
  • Nutritional support for adults with end-stage kidney disease on renal replacement therapy
    • Peer group interventions for promoting psychosocial adjustment in solid organ transplant recipients
    • Percussion, diuresis and inversion therapy for the passage of lower pole kidney stones after shock wave lithotripsy
    • Probiotics for preventing urinary tract infections. Aaron Tejani (Canada)
    • Prophylactic angioplasty for extending patency in haemodialysis grafts
    • Short vs standard duration haemodialysis for end-stage renal disease
    • Single versus simultaneous-double pediatric donor organs for adult kidney transplant recipients
    • Sodium bicarbonate supplements for acute renal failure. Kushma Nand (New Zealand)
    • Standard versus high Kt/V or creatinine clearance for chronic haemodialysis patients [CRG128]
    • Steroid-sparing strategies for pancreas and kidney/pancreas transplant recipients. Julio Pascual (Spain)
    • Support interventions for caregivers of patients with chronic kidney disease. Allison Tong (Australia)
    • Surgical nephrectomy techniques for live kidney donors
    • Treatment for BK virus nephropathy in kidney transplant recipients. Sree Krishna Venuthurupalli (Australia)
    • Tubeless versus standard percutaneous nephrolithotomy for treating kidney stones
    • Ureteric access sheaths for ureterorenoscopy for treating kidney and ureteric stones

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