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Raymond Vanholder

Raymond Vanholder

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Medicine

D-Index
136
Citations
66422
World Ranking
1985
National Ranking
21

Overview

Raymond Vanholder is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on nephrology. Their research covers a range of topics including dialysis and renal disease management, organ donation and transplantation, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, muscle and compartmental disorders, healthcare cost and quality practices, neurological and metabolic disorders, and renal transplantation outcomes and treatments.

Their work has appeared frequently in several publication venues, most notably:

  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • Kidney International
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
  • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Among recent papers co-authored or authored by Vanholder are:

  • Organ donation and transplantation: a multi-stakeholder call to action, 2021, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • The current and future landscape of dialysis, 2020, Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • Classification of Uremic Toxins and Their Role in Kidney Failure, 2021, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Cardiovascular complications in chronic kidney disease: a review from the European Renal and Cardiovascular Medicine Working Group of the European Renal Association, 2023, Cardiovascular Research
  • Gut microbiota generation of protein-bound uremic toxins and related metabolites is not altered at different stages of chronic kidney disease, 2020, Kidney International

Vanholder frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Some of their frequent co-authors include:

  • Griet Glorieux
  • Valérie A. Luyckx
  • Daniel Gallego
  • Mehmet Şükrü Sever
  • Ziad A. Massy

Their research spans a variety of subfields within medicine, primarily focused on nephrology, with additional work in public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, surgery, and emergency medical services. This multidisciplinary approach aligns with their engagement in complex health issues surrounding kidney function and disease management.

Best Publications

  • Review on uremic toxins: Classification, concentration, and interindividual variability

    Raymond Vanholder;Rita De Smet;Griet Glorieux;Angel Argilés

  • Clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and treatment of hyponatraemia

    Goce Spasovski;Raymond Vanholder;Bruno B. Allolio;Djillali Annane

  • Acute kidney injury: an increasing global concern

    Norbert H Lameire;Arvind Bagga;Dinna Cruz;Jan De Maeseneer

  • EBPG on Vascular Access

    Jan Tordoir;Bernard Canaud;Patrick Haage;Klaus Konner

  • International Society of Nephrology's 0by25 initiative for acute kidney injury (zero preventable deaths by 2025): a human rights case for nephrology

    Ravindra L Mehta;Jorge Cerdá;Emmanuel A Burdmann;Marcello Tonelli

  • EBPG Guideline on Nutrition

    Denis Fouque;Marianne Vennegoor;Piet Ter Wee;Christoph Wanner

  • Normal and Pathologic Concentrations of Uremic Toxins

    Flore Duranton;Gerald Cohen;Rita De Smet;Mariano Rodriguez

  • Serum Indoxyl Sulfate Is Associated with Vascular Disease and Mortality in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

    Fellype C. Barreto;Daniela V. Barreto;Sophie Liabeuf;Natalie Meert

  • Chronic kidney disease as cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

    R. Vanholder;Z. Massy;A. Argiles;G. Spasovski

  • The burden of kidney disease: Improving global outcomes

    Garabed Eknoyan;Norbert Lameire;Rashad Barsoum;Kai-Uwe Eckardt

  • A European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) position statement on the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice Guidelines on Acute Kidney Injury: Part 1: definitions, conservative management and contrast-induced nephropathy

    Danilo Fliser;Maurice Laville;Adrian Covic

  • The Uremic Toxicity of Indoxyl Sulfate and p-Cresyl Sulfate: A Systematic Review

    Raymond Vanholder;Eva Schepers;Anneleen Pletinck;Evi V. Nagler

  • Cytokine Removal during Continuous Hemofiltration in Septic Patients

    An S. De Vriese;Francis A. Colardyn;Jan J. Philippé;Raymond C. Vanholder

  • Naturally Occurring Human Urinary Peptides for Use in Diagnosis of Chronic Kidney Disease

    David M. Good;Petra Zürbig;Àngel Argilés;Hartwig W. Bauer

  • Effect of Membrane Permeability on Survival of Hemodialysis Patients

    Francesco Locatelli;Alejandro Martin-Malo;Thierry Hannedouche;Alfredo Loureiro

  • Acute renal failure in patients with sepsis in a surgical ICU: predictive factors, incidence, comorbidity, and outcome.

    Eric A.J. Hoste;Norbert H. Lameire;Raymond C. Vanholder;Dominique D. Benoit

  • The uremic solutes p-cresol and indoxyl sulfate inhibit endothelial proliferation and wound repair.

    Laetitia Dou;Emilie Bertrand;Claire Cerini;Valerie Faure

  • Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes guidelines on anaemia management in chronic kidney disease: a European Renal Best Practice position statement

    Francesco Locatelli;Peter Bárány;Adrian Covic;Angel De Francisco

  • Management of crush-related injuries after disasters

    Mehmet Sukru Sever;Raymond Vanholder;Norbert Lameire

  • Free p-cresylsulphate is a predictor of mortality in patients at different stages of chronic kidney disease

    Sophie Liabeuf;Daniela V. Barreto;Fellype C. Barreto;Natalie Meert

Frequent Co-Authors

Wim Van Biesen
Wim Van Biesen Ghent University Hospital
Norbert Lameire
Norbert Lameire Ghent University Hospital
Ziad A. Massy
Ziad A. Massy Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Eric Hoste
Eric Hoste Ghent University Hospital
Joachim Jankowski
Joachim Jankowski RWTH Aachen University
Pascal Verdonck
Pascal Verdonck Ghent University
Harald Mischak
Harald Mischak University of Glasgow
Alberto Ortiz
Alberto Ortiz Autonomous University of Madrid
Denis Fouque
Denis Fouque Hôpital Édouard-Herriot

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