Fast reduction of blood water volume due to ultra-filtration via hemodialysis machine and critical threshold of blood water volume can result in clinical complications such as hypotension. When blood water volume reduces during hemodialysis process, the concentration of blood forming elements will increase. One of the methods for the monitoring of the concentration changes is ultrasonic speed m...

CONTEXT Alternative hemodialysis schedules have been proposed to improve the quality of the dialysis. Nonetheless, their influence upon mineral and bone disorders is unknown. OBJECTIVE To report the impact of a daily hemodialysis schedule upon the lesions of renal osteodystrophy. TYPE OF STUDY Prospective non-controlled study. SETTING Public University Hospital. PARTICIPANTS Five patien...

A patient with an implanted artificial heart, acute, anuric renal failure, and disseminated influenza virus type A infection received intravenous ribavirin. Drug elimination by hemodialysis was measured. Plasma dialysis clearance averaged 93.9 +/- 8.6 ml/min. The maximum amount of ribavirin removed from the body during one period of hemodialysis was 79.1 mg. Ribavirin is not removed in importan...

Chronic renal failure (CKD) is a progressive decline in kidney function so that it cannot maintain hemostasis the body, order to hemodialysis carried out patients with failure, replace function. Examination of albumin serum or plasma taken from venous blood. The purpose this study was analyze levels chronic pre and post at Santa Elisabeth Hospital Medan. This research method descriptive. popula...

AIM To compare the effect of cataract surgery in renal transplantation and hemodialysis patients. METHODS We evaluated 51 eyes of 31 renal transplantation patients, 41 eyes of 29 hemodialysis patients and 45 eyes of 32 normal control patients who received phacoemulsification and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation from January, 2000 to August, 2014 in the Beijing Friendship Hospital. Each ind...

OBJECTIVE We sought to determine whether the MNA (Mininutritional Assessment) would be an effective tool for assessing the nutritional status of patients undergoing hemodialysis. DESIGN Purposive sampling. SETTING Two hospital-managed hemodialysis centers in central Taiwan. PATIENTS Subjects were 95 ambulatory patients older than 40 years without acute diseases or infections who had recei...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the parathyroid function in maintenance hemodialysis patients from 4 hemodialysis centers and to analyze the cause of the dysfunction. METHODS This cross-sectional study included patients with chronic renal disease undergoing maintenance hemodialysis treatment at 4 hemodialysis centers in Changchun, China, between March 2014 and August 2015. A total of 337 patients were ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Higher left ventricular volume is associated with death in patients with ESRD. This work investigated the effects of frequent hemodialysis on ventricular volumes and left ventricular remodeling. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS The Frequent Hemodialysis Network daily trial randomized 245 patients to 12 months of six times per week versus three times per ...

BACKGROUND Plasma BNP levels are predictive of prognosis in hemodialysis patients. However, recent studies showed that the current BNP immunoassay cross-reacts with glycosylated proBNP, and the NT-proBNP assay underestimates glycosylated NT-proBNP. In addition, the recently developed high performance dialyzer removes medium-sized molecular solutes such as β2-microgloburin. We therefore investig...

BACKGROUND The safety and efficacy of chemotherapy for patients undergoing concomitant hemodialysis have not been fully established and optimal doses of anti-cancer drugs and best timing of hemodialysis remains unclear. Although chemosensitive cancers, such as germ cell tumors, treated with chemotherapy should have sufficient dose intensity maintained to achieve the desired effect, many patient...