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If treatments are available that can help at early stages of most causes of CKD (RAASi, SGLT2i, etc), why WOULDN’T we screen? Economics? How much does saving 20 years of dialysis get you? What about human costs?
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Urine screening to early diagnose young individuals with CKD: a call for action
Alport syndrome is an inherited disorder of basement membranes leading to progressive
chronic kidney disease, hearing loss, and ocular abnormalities in many affected patients.
When the authors started...