Background: Thirty years have passed since hemodialysis therapy first started in Vietnam. However, there have been no reports on information such as the survival rate, mortality, and cause of death of hemodialysis patients on a national level. The aim of this study is to retrospectively analyze the data on hemodialysis patients from the flagship hospital in Ho Chi Minh City and to shed light on...

Hemodialysis is being implicated in the development of metabolic disturbances, as complications have been observed and the role of trace metals in their development has been questioned. In 78 renal failure patients who underwent hemodialysis, serum levels of zinc and copper were determined before and after first hemodialysis. Acute and chronic renal failure patients were found to have lowe...

Potassium is abundant in the ICF compartment in the body and its excretion primarily depends on renal (about 90%), and to a lesser extent (about 10%) on colonic excretion. Total body potassium approximated to 50mmol/kg body weight and 2% of total body potassium is in the ECF compartment and 98% of it in the intracellular compartment.Dyskalemia is a frequent electrolyte imbalance observed among ...

INTRODUCTION Inadequate dialysis accounts for the high mortality in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). In Nepal, due to various factors including financial and logistic limitations, hemodialysis is mostly performed twice-a-week. This study was undertaken to look at adequacy of dialysis in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis in Nepal where the patients profile, in terms of di...

Hemodialysis affects biomarkers concentration in blood. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of hemodialysis on commonly used tumor markers. A total of 28 unselected patients (22 men and 6 women) with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), treated with maintenance hemodialysis, were enrolled in this study. GOT and tumor markers such as CA-153, CA-125, and CEA are measured. The mean age was...

INTRODUCTION Purine metabolites constitute a major class of uremic toxins, and reliable characterization of which helps nephrologists to choose the most appropriate treatment for the patients individually. In the present study, we assessed plasma concentrations of hypoxanthine and uric acid as purine metabolites in patients on maintenance hemodialysis, before and after a dialysis session. MAT...

INTRODUCTION Ankle-brachial index (ABI) is a noninvasive test which employs as a diagnostic marker of atherosclerotic peripheral vascular disease in hemodialysis patients. This study aimed to investigate the association between ABI and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in patients on hemodialysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighty-six patients with end-stage renal disease undergoing hemodi...

INTRODUCTION Dialysis-induced oxidative stress is one of the mechanisms of atherosclerotic changes. Heparin, used in hemodialysis, is an anticoagulant drug with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. This study was planned in order to evaluate the antioxidant effects of heparin and dalteparin (low-molecular weight heparin). MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-two patients underwent 3 hemodialysi...

Fluid shifts are commonplace in chronic hemodialysis patients during the intra- and interdialytic periods. In this study, we evaluated fluid shifts of body compartments using both bioimpedance spectroscopy and blood volume monitoring from the start to the end of hemodialysis. 24 stable hemodialysis patients were included on the study. Relative change of blood volume was progressively reduced fr...

INTRODUCTION. It has been shown that inflammation affects thyroid function. In patients with end-stage renal disease, low plasma triiodothyronine (T3) may be an unsuspected expression of the inflammatory state of these patients. This study evaluated the correlation between T3 and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (HSCRP) levels in patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) and hemodialysis. MATERIA...