Abstract
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is acknowledged worldwide to be a grave threat to public health, with the number of US end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients increasing steeply from 10,000 in 1973 to 703,243 in 2015. Protein-bound uremic toxins (PBUTs) are excreted by renal tubular secretion in healthy humans, but hardly removed by traditional haemodialysis (HD) in ESKD patients. The accumulation of these toxins is a major contributor to these sufferers’ morbidity and mortality. As a result, some improvements to dialytic removal have been proposed, each with their own upsides and drawbacks. Longer dialysis sessions and hemodiafiltration, though, have not performed especially well, while larger dialyzers, coupled with a higher dialysate flow, proved to have some efficiency in indoxyl sulfate (IS) clearance, but with reduced impact on patients’ quality of life. More efficient in removing PBUTs was fractionated plasma separation and adsorption, but the risk of occlusive thrombosis was worryingly high. A promising technique for the removal of PBUTs is binding competition, which holds great hopes for future HD. This short review starts by presenting the PBUTs chemistry with emphasis on the chemical interactions with the transport protein, human serum albumin (HSA). Recent membrane-based strategies targeting PBUTs removal are also presented, and their efficiency is discussed.
Highlights
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutralChronic kidney disease (CKD) can be recognized by its glomerular filtration rate below 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 or pathological albuminuria, and is characterized by progressive and irreversible nephron loss, reduced renal regenerative capacity, microvascular damage, metabolic changes, oxidative stress, and chronic inflammations, resulting in fibrosis and kidney failure (Figure 1)
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Summary
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) can be recognized by its glomerular filtration rate (eGFG) below 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 or pathological albuminuria, and is characterized by progressive and irreversible nephron loss, reduced renal regenerative capacity, microvascular damage, metabolic changes, oxidative stress, and chronic inflammations, resulting in fibrosis and kidney failure (Figure 1). Range of substances areprocessing retained in body, some of as Healthy kidneys play aisvital role ina the metabolism and of most drugs, which are bonded to the transport protein human serum albumin (HSA). Those substances well as being essential in filtering toxins and waste products from the blood, controlling thatpressure remain inand the electrolyte body, whichfunctions, play a huge role in helping the develop and manifest blood and controlling functions of otheruremic bodily flusyndrome, become uremic toxins (UTs). As well as further research, more advanced removal systems than the ones that are available at present are urgently necessary
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