Introduction More than 1/3 of patients with end-stage renal disease who are in a chronic dialysis program suffer from chronic pain and depression/anxiety. The aim of the study was to determine the impacts of symptoms of depression/anxiety, chronic pain and quality of life (QoL) on 6-year patient survival. Material and methods Observational study of end-stage renal disease patients on maintena...

the excessive amounts of parathyroid hormone in secondary hyperparathyroidism (shpth) is suggested to interfere with normal erythropoiesis.  in shpth, during chronic renal failure, due to the impairment of erythropoietin synthesis, this effect is more pronounced.  in the present study the role of secondary hyperparathyroidism in the severity of anemia was evaluated in hemodialysis patients (n=3...

PURPOSE The purpose of this report is to describe a case of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in the setting of chronic kidney disease that exhibited complete retinal reattachment after serial hemodialysis. METHODS Retrospective case report. RESULTS A 58-year-old woman with acute vision loss was found to have a macula-involving rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Due to chronic kidney diseas...

Tuberculosis confined to the testes with no epididymal involvement is uncommon. Chronic renal failure patients requiring hemodialysis have increased risk for developing tuberculosis. We report a 47-year old chronic renal failure man presenting with right testicular tuberculous orchitis. A high index of suspicion is required to recognize the unusual presentation of tuberculosis in this group of ...

Introduction: Hemodialysis is a trusted intermediate procedure for management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. As such CKD is an immune-deficient state, hence, they may be infected by hepatitis B virus (HCV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) during hemodialysis. Eventually, HBV and HCV infection is an important cause of morbidity and mortality among patients of hemodialysis. Prevalence of HB...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Infections are common complications among patients on chronic hemodialysis. This population-based cohort study aims to estimate risk and case fatality of bloodstream infection among chronic hemodialysis patients. METHODS In this population-based cohort study we identified residents with end-stage renal disease in Central and North Jutland, Denmark who had hemodialysi...

PURPOSE To evaluate alanine aminotransferase levels before and after a hemodialysis session and to correlate these values with the hematocrit rate and weight loss during hemodialysis. PATIENTS AND METHODS The serum alanine aminotransferase levels, hematocrit rate and body weight were measured and correlated before and after a single hemodialysis session for 146 patients with chronic renal fai...

Hemodialysis is the most used renal replacement therapy for children in Morocco. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of patients who started hemodialysis in childhood and study their characteristics and specificities of their care. For this we conducted a multicentric descriptive cross-sectional study of all chronic hemodialysis patients who started dialysis in pediatric...

Introduction Etelcalcetide, a novel calcimimetic agonist of the calcium-sensing receptor for treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease patients on hemodialysis, is a d-amino acid linear heptapeptide with a d-cysteine that is linked to an l-cysteine by a disulfide bond. In addition to binding to the calcium-sensing receptor, etelcalcetide is biotransformed by disulfide...