Hospital Terrassa

Central vascular access in kidney and cancer care: devices, biomaterial strategies, and prevention of complications

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cancer are among the most prevalent chronic conditions that increasingly demand reliable long-term central venous access devices (CVADs), including central venous catheters (CVCs), peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs), and implantable p...

Sex differences in epidemiology and clinical presentation of glomerular diseases in a nationwide Spanish biopsy registry

Sex differences influence the epidemiology and clinical expression of kidney diseases. Most primary glomerulonephritis shows male predominance, whereas lupus nephritis remains strongly female-biased. Large national cohorts with sex-stratified analyses are limited. We analysed all...