Home nocturnal hemodialysis (HNHD) has been demonstrated to provide a number of benefits for patients on chronic hemodialysis including improvements in dialysis adequacy blood pressure control, cardiac function, hemoglobin, and mineral metabolism status (Chan, 2004; Pierratos, 2004). Unfortunately a large number of chronic HD patients are unable to manage HNHD due to a variety of medical and so...

Chronic renal insufficiency disease (CRI) leads to uremia in hemodialysis patients and induces a state of immunodepression that results in higher frequencies of infections and diarrhea. Hemodialysis patients resident in the city of Campo Mourão, Paraná, Brazil were analyzed from April 2006 through September 2007 for Blastocystis sp. and other intestinal parasites and for associated diarrhea. Fe...

Therapy for kidney replacement with hemodialysis is a treatment that carried out in patients Chronic Kidney Failure to survive. The purpose of this study was determine the stability dialysate fluid machine by measuring temperature using DS18B20 sensor and pH 4502C on pre post-hemodialysis. research method manufacture module use pre-experimental design type "one group posttest design" independen...

Background: Chronic kidney disease is a gradual loss of function with diabetes and hypertension as the leading cause. one these systemic diseases that can affect salivary contents. Aims: This study aimed to assess immunoglobulin A, interleukin-6 C- reactive protein in chronic patients on hemodialysis those conservative treatment comparison control subjects. Materials methods: Ninety subjects we...

Background: Uremic pruritus is one of the important problems in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Causing the mechanism of uremic pruritus in hemodialysis patients is complex and multifactorial. Almost 60 percent of hemodialysis patients suffer from uremic pruritus. Oral hydroxyzine is a common treatment for uremic pruritus of this patients. This study aimed to survey effect of hydroxyzine on u...

Inner ear cells are sensitive to some metabolic and hormonal disorders, but the relation between chronic renal failure (CRF), regular dialysis treatment (RDT) and sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is still a debatable field. The object of this paper was to verify the presence of SNHL in patients submitted to hemodialysis with different duration due to CRF and in those submitted to conservat...

We describe the case of a patient with improving invasive aspergillosis and paradoxically rising serum galactomannan levels in the presence of chronic renal failure and ongoing hemodialysis. Dialysate tested negative for galactomannan, demonstrating the inability of treatments such as hemodialysis to clear Aspergillus antigen from serum. In patients with renal failure and aspergillosis, rising ...