1. Intro 2. Outline 3. Medicare patients & costs 4. Projections through 2020 5. Aging population 6. Dialysis Options 7. Time spent discussing 8. First modality stats 9. Patient's perspective 10. Patient's choice of therapy 11. Home dialysis equipment 12. Daily Hemodialysis 13. Multiple Comorbidities 14. Nocturnal Dialysis study 15. Calcium and Phosphorus 16. Use of Ca and P binders 17. Short Daily Dialysis study 18. Daily Dialysis study 19. Comparison of Conventional to Short Daily Dialysis 20. Cost Savings 21. Indications for starting sDHD 22. Strong indicators 23. Postulated Advantages of Quotidian dialysis 24. Quotidian Dialysis II 25. Kidney Transplantation 26. Transplant: First-line therapy 27. Incident ESRD & transplants 28. Waitlist study 29. Who is a candidate? 30. Contraindications to Transplantation 31. Transplant vs Waiting list 32. Transplant outcomes 33. Other transplant benefits 34. Probability of CHF 35. Survival after CHF 36. Quality of Life benefits 37. Happy Patients 38. Types of Kidney Transplants 39. Survival rates 40. Graft Survival rates 41. Donor rates 42. One problem 43. Evaluation Process
44. Steps in evaluation process 45. Routine tests 46. Misc. requirements 48. Timing of Transplantation 49. Disease Course 50. Relative Risk of Death 51. 10-Year Graft Survival 52. Preemptive Transplants 53. Annual Revenue 54. Immunosuppression 55. Graft Survival 56. Calcineurin Inhibitors 57. Rat glomerulus after 2 weeks of cyclosporin 58. CNI Side Effects 59. CNI Side Effects, cont'd 60. Metabolic Interactions that Increase CNI 61. Metabolic Interactions that Decrease CNI 62. Antiproliferative agents 63. Other Adverse Effects of Immunosuppressants 64. Primary Cause of Death in Kidney Transplant Recipients, 2000-2002 65. Malignancies 66. Risk factors for developing post-transplant cancer 67. PTLD 68. Risk Factors for PTDM 69. Screening 70. Target Blood Pressure for Kidney Transplant Recipients 71. Target Serum Lipid Levels for Kidney Transplant Recipients 72. Hematologic Complications 73. Post-transplant Bone Loss 74. Osteoporosis: Screening and Diagnosis 75. Prevalence of Nonadherence 76. Why do grafts fail? 77. Why grafts fail, cont'd. 78. Why grafts fail, cont'd. 79. Summary 80. Models of Transplant
