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Species | Stephen MacDonaldSummaryAffiliation: ANZDATA Registry Country: Australia Publications
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The p53Pro72Arg polymorphism is associated with albuminuria among aboriginal AustraliansStephen P McDonald
Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia
J Am Soc Nephrol 13:677-83. 2002....- Obesity is a risk factor for peritonitis in the Australian and New Zealand peritoneal dialysis patient populationsStephen P McDonald
ANZDATA Registry, Adelaide, South Australia
Perit Dial Int 24:340-6. 2004..The aim of the present investigation was to examine the association between body mass index (BMI) and peritonitis rates among incident peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients in a large cohort with long-term follow-up... - Indigenous transplant outcomes in Australia: what the ANZDATA Registry tells usStephen McDonald
ANZDATA Registry, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Nephrology (Carlton) 9:S138-43. 2004..63-2.34) (P <0.001), compared with non-Aboriginal Australians. Despite the advantages in terms of morbidity and quality of life, it remains uncertain whether transplantation offers a mortality advantage among Aboriginal Australians... - Streptococcal peritonitis in Australian peritoneal dialysis patients: predictors, treatment and outcomes in 287 casesStacey O'Shea
Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Adelaide, Australia
BMC Nephrol 10:19. 2009..There has not been a comprehensive, multi-centre study of streptococcal peritonitis in patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) to date... - Oxpentifylline versus placebo in the treatment of erythropoietin-resistant anaemia: a randomized controlled trialDavid Wayne Johnson
Australian Kidney Trials Network, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
BMC Nephrol 9:8. 2008..The main hypothesis of this study is that Oxpentifylline administration will effectively treat erythropoietin- or darbepoietin-resistant anaemia in chronic kidney disease patients... - Interfaces between cardiovascular and kidney disease among Aboriginal AustraliansStephen P McDonald
ANZDATA Registry, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, SA 5011, Australia
Adv Chronic Kidney Dis 12:39-48. 2005..Many of these factors are beyond the control of the individual or even community; addressing these issues a broader focus and biopsychosocial model... - Homocysteine, renal disease and cardiovascular disease in a remote Australian Aboriginal communityS McDonald
Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northen Territory, Australia
Intern Med J 35:289-94. 2005..Nutritional problems, in particular low folate levels, are also common. This suggests that increased homocysteine concentrations might be widespread, and a possible contributor to the high rates of cardiovascular disease... - Morbidity burden of end-stage kidney disease in Australia: hospital separation rates among people receiving kidney replacement therapyStephen P McDonald
Renal Unit, Central Northern Adelaide Renal and Transplantation Service, Adelaide, South Australia
Nephrology (Carlton) 16:758-66. 2011..We examined these rates among Australians receiving KRT... - Incidence and treatment of ESRD among indigenous peoples of AustralasiaS McDonald
ANZDATA Registry, Adelaide, Australia
Clin Nephrol 74:S28-31. 2010..The majority of this is driven by diabetic nephropathy. Both groups have lesser utilization of transplantation as a renal replacement therapy than non-indigenous comparators, and lesser utilization of home dialysis modalities... - Relationship between dialysis modality and mortalityStephen P McDonald
Renal Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 28 Woodville Road, Woodville South SA 5011, Australia
J Am Soc Nephrol 20:155-63. 2009..Treatment with PD may be advantageous initially but may be associated with higher mortality after 12 mo... - Recurrence of IgA nephropathy among renal allograft recipients from living donors is greater among those with zero HLA mismatchesStephen P McDonald
ANZDATA Registry, Adelaide, Australia
Transplantation 82:759-62. 2006..Risk factors contributing to recurrence of IgA nephropathy (IgAN) after transplantation are unclear. Some (but not all) series have suggested greater degrees of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matching play a role... - Kidney transplant rejection in Australia and New Zealand: relationships between rejection and graft outcomeS McDonald
ANZDATA Registry, Adelaide, Australia
Am J Transplant 7:1201-8. 2007..The reduced rates of rejection have not been associated with improved graft survival... - Factors influencing reported rates of treated end-stage renal diseaseStephen McDonald
Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, SA 5011, Australia
Adv Chronic Kidney Dis 12:32-8. 2005..Although a major contribution comes from increasing disease prevalence, understanding the implications of this increase requires comprehension of a number of other factors... - Long-term survival of children with end-stage renal diseaseStephen P McDonald
Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant ANZDATA Registry, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
N Engl J Med 350:2654-62. 2004..Although renal-replacement therapy for children with end-stage renal disease has been used for several decades, data on patients' long-term survival are sparse... - Current incidence, treatment patterns and outcome of end-stage renal disease among indigenous groups in Australia and New ZealandStephen P McDonald
ANZDATA Registry, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Nephrology (Carlton) 8:42-8. 2003..Tackling this problem will involve a spectrum of people and approaches, from tertiary care providers and RRT to local staff and preventative programs... - Validation of self-reported cigarette smoking in a remote Australian Aboriginal communityStephen P McDonald
Menzies School of Health Research, Northern Territory Clinical School, Flinders University of South Australia, Northern Territory
Aust N Z J Public Health 27:57-60. 2003..To examine the relationship between self-reported tobacco smoking and urinary cotinine concentrations in the setting of a remote Aboriginal community... - Obesity is associated with worse peritoneal dialysis outcomes in the Australia and New Zealand patient populationsStephen P McDonald
Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Adelaide, Australia
J Am Soc Nephrol 14:2894-901. 2003..Such patients should be closely monitored during PD and should be considered for early transfer to an alternative renal replacement therapy if difficulties are experienced... - Associations between use of cyclosporine-sparing agents and outcome in kidney transplant recipientsStephen P McDonald
ANZDATA Registry, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Kidney Int 61:2259-65. 2002..Use of cyclosporine-sparing agents (CsSpA) is routinely recorded by the Australia & New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry, and we used these data to examine the associations between CsSpA use and outcomes... - ESRD in Australia and New Zealand at the end of the millennium: a report from the ANZDATA registryStephen P McDonald
Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Am J Kidney Dis 40:1122-31. 2002..The manner of addressing this challenge varies around the world as seen in different patterns of RRT. We present here a summary of the incidence and prevalence of treated ESRD in Australia and New Zealand in 2000... - Survival of recipients of cadaveric kidney transplants compared with those receiving dialysis treatment in Australia and New Zealand, 1991-2001Stephen P McDonald
ANZDATA Registry, Adelaide, Australia
Nephrol Dial Transplant 17:2212-9. 2002.... - C-reactive protein, cardiovascular risk, and renal disease in a remote Australian Aboriginal communityStephen McDonald
Menzies School of Health Research, Casuarina, Northern Territory 0810, Australia
Clin Sci (Lond) 106:121-8. 2004..This suggests that a strong focus on prevention and management of infections will be important in reducing these conditions, in addition to interventions directed at more traditional risk factors... - Steroids and recurrent IgA nephropathy after kidney transplantationP Clayton
Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
Am J Transplant 11:1645-9. 2011..50, 95% CI 0.30-0.84). These results suggest that the risk of graft loss from recurrent disease should be considered when tailoring immunosuppression for patients with IgAN... - Pregnancy and maternal outcomes among kidney transplant recipientsVicki Levidiotis
Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant ANZDATA Registry, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
J Am Soc Nephrol 20:2433-40. 2009..Maternal complications included preeclampsia in 27% and gestational diabetes in 1%. Taken together, these data confirm that a live birth in women with a functioning graft does not have an adverse impact on graft and patient survival... - Randomized cross-over comparison of intravenous and subcutaneous darbepoetin dosing efficiency in haemodialysis patientsMatthew J Cervelli
Renal Unit and Pharmacy Department, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Health Service, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Nephrology (Carlton) 10:129-35. 2005..c. and i.v. dosing equivalence, however, no blinded cross-over randomized studies of s.c. and i.v. dose efficiency or intra-patient variability in response have been published... - Implementing iron management clinical practice guidelines in patients with chronic kidney disease having dialysisMichelle J Irving
Centre for Kidney Research, The Children s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 185:310-4. 2006..To evaluate the outcomes of and barriers to implementing standard guidelines (Caring for Australasians with renal impairment [CARI]), using iron management in patients having dialysis as an example... - Renal disease, the metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular diseaseWendy E Hoy
Centre for Chronic Disease, Discipline of Medicine, University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston 4029, Australia
Ethn Dis 16:S2-46-51. 2006..To describe the association between renal disease and other features of the metabolic syndrome and its derivative illnesses among Australian Aborigines in remote settings... - Differentiating tonsillitis from glandular fever: is the lymphocyte white blood cell count ratio any help?Emma Louise Smale
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 133:952; author reply 952. 2007 - Gastric bypass surgery: a survey of primary care physiciansRandy A Sansone
Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, USA
Eat Disord 15:145-52. 2007..However, there was a significant gender difference, with female physicians being less supportive than male physicians. We discuss the implications of these results... - Lean body mass-adjusted Cockcroft and Gault formula improves the estimation of glomerular filtration rate in subjects with normal-range serum creatinineWai H Lim
Renal Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia
Nephrology (Carlton) 11:250-6. 2006..g. inulin clearances), but is inconvenient. The aim of the present study was to determine whether serum creatinine-based prediction formulae adjusted for lean body mass (LBM) could improve the accuracy of GFR estimation in these subjects...