Conservative management of chronic kidney disease stage 5: role of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study shows that proteinuria independently predicts further renal damage progression even in end-stage renal disease patients not yet in dialysis. In our cohort of elderly patients with very advanced CKD, ACE-I was effective in slowing down further renal damage progression.
PMID: 27015900 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)