Should vecuronium be used in renal failure?

Debate: Should statin be used in patients with heart failure?

Statins reduce mortality of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, by protocol, trials have excluded patients with chronic heart failure. Since the prevalent etiology of heart failure is CAD, preventing CAD may prevent heart failure progression. Statins may have other beneficial effects besides cholesterol lowering, such as anti-inflammatory properties and improvement of endothel...

Debate: Statins should be used in patients with heart failure

Treatment to prevent progression of heart failure has been targeted to reverse the consequences of heart failure and to a lesser extent the cause - the atherosclerotic plaque itself. Less than 50% of patients with heart failure are treated with lipid intervention. Heart failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] functional classes I and II) is associated with an increase in low-density lipoprot...

At which stage of renal failure should dialysis be started?

The issue of the adequate or optimal time at which Serum calcium 2.3–2.5 mmol/l GFR ([Ccr+Clurea]/2) renal replacement therapy (RRT) should be initiated 10 ml/min/1.73 m2 for patients with advanced or terminal chronic renal Residual weekly Kt/Vurea 2 Serum phosphate <1.6 mmol/l Absence of fluid overload Serum PTH (1–84) failure (CRF) has been a matter of debate since the >60–<150 ng/ml very fir...

Why blind diabetics with renal failure should be offered treatment.

During May 1978 to April 1983 this renal dialysis unit treated 65 patients by continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Of these, 24 had type I (insulin dependent) diabetes, of whom 20 were blind; eight had type II (non-insulin dependent) diabetes, of whom three were blind; and 33 did not have diabetes and were not blind. The cumulative actuarial survival rates of these patients at five years ...

diabetes, renal failure and hepatitis c infection: the puzzle should be attended more in future