Hemodialysis treatment is provided for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury as in‐ patient therapy. More commonly, HD is routinely provided for stable patients with endstage renal failure (ESRF) as an outpatient therapy conducted in a dialysis outpatient facility, either a purpose built room in a hospital or a dedicated stand-alone clinic. Less fre‐ quently HD is done at home, where...

Background: Alport’s syndrome includes a group of heterogeneous inherited disorders involving the basement membranes of the kidney and may involve the cochlea and the eye. It is a progressive renal disease characterized by hematuria and progressive renal failure that is often accompanied by sensorineural deafness and/or ocular abnormalities mainly macular flecks and lenticonus. The heterogeneit...

Liver transplantation has been developed to the point of a service operation, the exploitation of which depends upon the establishment of multiple regional centers. The increased use of this procedure will permit the delivery of optimum health care to victims of endstage liver disease.

Nine patients with duodenal pseudomelanosis are described: seven had endstage renal failure while one other patient had undergone renal transplantation. Eight of the nine had been on oral iron supplements. The pigment stained positively with Perls' stain for iron in five patients, positively with the Masson-Fontana method normally used to identify melanin in one, and positively with both method...

THE ISSUE Diabetes has become the main cause of endstage renal disease. The costs for the treatment of diabetic patients with endstage renal disease have increased in the last years and have become a relevant economic topic of the health service. The first unspecific predictor of a diabetic nephropathy is an albuminuria. The screening for diabetic nephropathy uses microalbuminuria as a proof. ...

background: chronic kidney disease is a progressive and irreversible loss of renal function. anemia is one of the main complications of end-stage renal disease (esrd) which is linked closely with other complications of the disease. the primary therapy for anemia in these patients is erythropoietin (epo). the goal of this study was to find the effect of vitamin d administration in addition to th...

chronic kidney disease is one of the most common complication of systemic lupus erythematosus, which if untreated can lead to  the end-stage renal disease (esrd). early diagnosis and adequate treatment of lupus nephritis (ln) is critical to prevent the chronic kidney disease incidence and to reduce the development of esrd. the treatment of ln has changed significantly over the past decade. in p...

kaposi᾽s sarcoma (ks) can develop in 0.06% to 4.1% of kidney transplant recipients. here we describe a case of 50-year-old man who developed ks a few months after kidney transplantation . after transplantation, he had delayed graft function and was managed by anti-thymocyte globulin (atg) for five days. at the discharge, his immunosuppressive therapy was prednisolone 20 mg/day, ttacrolimus (ppr...