Background and Objectives: Chronic renal failure is a health problem that affects the patient's life in alternative renal therapies, including hemodialysis. Hemodialysis is a stressful process and the most important factor causing tension in these patients is a reduction in hope for life. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the role of trust in God and resilience in the hope for l...

effect of self management programs on dietary adherence and interdialytic weight gain in patients undergoing hemodialysis.    baljani es [1] *, habibzadeh h [2] , rahimi j [3] , azimpour a [4] , salimi s [5]     received: 1 mar, 2013 accepted: 21 apr, 2013  abstract  background & aims : poor adherence to dietary among dialysis patients is a common and serious problem among patients. despite of ...

Approximately 350,000 individuals in the United States rely on maintenance hemodialysis treatment because of end-stage renal disease. Despite improvements in dialysis technology, the mortality rate for patients treated with maintenance dialysis is still exceptionally high, with a 5-year survival rate of only 35%. Many patients succumb to conditions resulting at least in part from the chronic in...

Pentraxin 3 (PTX3), a multifunctional modulator of the innate immunoinflammatory response, is higher in patients undergoing hemodialysis than healthy control. Our study focused on annual change in PTX3 levels in patients with chronic hemodialysis, because regularly undergoing hemodialysis for many years modifies vascular inflammatory status. To demonstrate whether annual change in PTX3 is assoc...

Background: Identifying the sources of variation in QTc measurements is important for preventing arrhythmias during and after hemodialysis. The present study was designed to determine the correlation between the type of hemodialysis buffer and the changes in QTc interval in patients on chronic hemodialysis. Methods: Fifty-nine patients on chronic hemodialysis who referred in winter 2007 to hemo...

OBJECTIVE The main objective of this study is to use the method of complex demodulation combined with posture entrainment protocol (changing from supine to standing position) to characterize the autonomic dysfunction before and after hemodialysis session in patients with chronic renal failure. METHODS Twenty patients maintained on hemodialysis for an average 18 months were studied. All patien...

BACKGROUND The quality of life in patients receiving chronic hemodialysis is compromised despite of the substantial achievements in treatments. Quality of life in hemodialysis patients have been shown to be associated with decreased survival and increased hospitalization. Therefore, it is necessary to incorporate the managements of symptoms and patient self-perceived well-being as measurements ...

INTRODUCTION Patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis and kidney transplant patients will be afflicted with various mental and physical problems, which may affect their general health. Previous studies have shown that, general health level in these patients is lower than general population. However, definitive studies comparing the general health between the two groups of patients undergoing he...

Oxidative stress is related to several diseases, including chronic renal insufficiency. The lipid peroxidation in hemolysis patients may be partly due to the trace elements disturbances. It has been mentioned that during hemolysis there are relations between deficiency in trace elements and antioxidant levels. The present study was carried out to evaluate the differences between hemodialysis pa...