SP544CALCIFICATION PROPENSITY OF HEMODIALYSIS AND HEMODIAFILTRATION PATIENTS

Correction: High-Flux Hemodialysis and High-Volume Hemodiafiltration Improve Serum Calcification Propensity

BACKGROUND Calciprotein particles (CPPs) may play an important role in the calcification process. The calcification propensity of serum (T50) is highly predictive of all-cause mortality in chronic kidney disease patients. Whether T50 is therapeutically improvable, by high-flux hemodialysis (HD) or hemodiafiltration (HDF), has not been studied yet. METHODS We designed a cross-sectional single ...

Association Between Hemodiafiltration and Hypoalbuminemia in Middle-Age Hemodialysis Patients

The advantage of hemodiafiltration (HDF) is well known. One of the disadvantages of HDF is loss of serum albumin, but this issue is still obscure. Some risk factors associated with mortality were age dependent. Studies on serum albumin/hypoalbuminemia and HDF in different age stratification were limited. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess the role of HDF and other clinical vari...

Arterial stiffness: hemodialysis versus hemodiafiltration

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Arterial stiffness seems to be influenced by the dialysis method, but studies are sparse and the results discordant. High substitution volume online hemodiafiltration appears to have beneficial cardiovascular effects in dialysis patients, but its effects on arterial stiffness are not investigated. We aimed to analyze arterial stiffness parameters in high substitution volume ...

Hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration differentially modulate left ventricular diastolic function

Disturbances of trace element metabolism in ESRD patients receiving hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration

INTRODUCTION Accumulation of trace elements occurs in conditions of decreased kidney function. In some conditions, increased trace elements can have toxic features. On the other hand, studies are showing that concentration of some trace elements could be decreased in ERSD patients as well. The most important factor affecting trace element concentration in ERSD patients is the degree of renal fa...