Methods A descriptive and comparative study about a prospective data basis is made. All the patients with CRRT requirements, admitted in ICU from September 2014 to March 2015 are included. Variables as motive of therapy, daily dosage of the therapy, days of therapy, half-life of systems on the first three days, global half-life of systems, type of anticoagulation, daily mean dosage of citrate-c...

During dialysis treatments, there is an interest of measuring the dialysis efficiency for each treatment. An easy method has been developed and is based on measuring the conductivity of the dialysis fluid. Today this method exists in the dialysis machines for standard hemodialysis (HD) treatments, and for the so called postdilution hemodiafiltration (HDF) treatments at Gambro Lundia AB. However...

Haemodiafiltration (HDF) is the blood purification therapy of choice for those who want significant removal of uraemic solutes beyond the traditional range of small molecules. Combining diffusive and convective solute transport, a HDF treatment comprises the largest number of variables among blood purification therapies, and it is important to understand how they interact in order to optimize t...

1. Blood leptin levels are increased in obese subjects and seem to play a major role in the hypothalamic regulation of appetite and energy expenditure. 2. We measured plasma leptin levels in a cohort of 46 patients on maintenance haemodialysis treatment and 26 control subjects. 3. Higher body mass indices were associated with higher plasma leptin levels in both groups. 4. The increase was more ...

A 48-year-old male presented with an acute change in mental status due to a marked elevation of plasma NH3 and was diagnosed with citrullinemia with amino acid analysis of blood. Hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration were performed, but serum chemical analysis did not show any improvement which led us to terminate dialysis following intensive care for 3 days. Surprisingly, NH3 level had decreased ...

Background Recent randomized controlled trials suggest that sufficiently high convection post-dilutional haemodiafiltration (HC-HDF) improves survival in dialysis patients, consequently this technique is increasingly being adopted. However, when performing HC-HDF, rigorous control systems of the ultrafiltration setting are required. Assessing the global ultrafiltration coefficient of the dialys...