Con: Frequent haemodialysis for all chronic haemodialysis patients

Con: Frequent haemodialysis for all chronic haemodialysis patients.

Frequent haemodialysis (HD) regimens have been proposed with the aim to improve survival and other important patient outcomes. They indeed avoid the long interdialytic interval and have been associated with some proven benefits, i.e. an improvement in blood pressure and phosphataemia control, a reduction in left ventricular mass and lower ultrafiltration rates. However, the actual impact of fre...

Vascular calcification in chronic haemodialysis patients.

Vascular calcification in patients with chronic kidney disease was mentioned for the first time in the 19 century when Virchow described the appearance of metastatic calcification in patients with kidney failure. The subject has gained great interest in recent years as many studies described that a high percentage of patients on chronic haemodialysis show vascular calcification, the extent of w...

Influence of haemodialysis on variability of pulse wave velocity in chronic haemodialysis patients.

BACKGROUND The major determinants of pulse wave velocity (PWV) in haemodialysis (HD) patients are not fully known. We studied chronic HD patients to assess the effect of cyclic variations in both hydration status and blood pressure on PWV. METHODS Twenty patients were examined along three consecutive HD sessions and interdialysis periods during a week-long period. Twenty healthy subjects and ...

Pericarditis during chronic haemodialysis therapy.

Mortality risk factors in chronic haemodialysis patients with infective endocarditis.

BACKGROUND It is well documented that infective endocarditis (IE) is strongly associated with morbidity and mortality in haemodialysis (HD) patients. Less clear are the mortality risk factors for IE, particularly in an urban African-American dialysis population. METHODS IE patients were identified from the medical records for the period from January 1999 to February 2004 and confirmed by Duke...