Background: Nowadays, the most important aspect of hemodialysis is the technical method of anticoagulation of extracorporeal circuit. This quasi-experimental study was performed to compare three methods of heparinization in the extracorporeal circulation. Methods: Twenty-seven hemodialysis patients referring to Rafsanjan Hemodialysis Center with the weight range of 50-90 kg and normal Clotting ...

Miige Ersoy-Kart, and Ozgna Guldii (2005), Vulnerability to stress, perceived social support, and coping styles among chronic hemodialysis. The aim of this study was to investigate how coping mechanisms differ between hemodialysis patients and healthy people. The sample consisted of 110 adults (55 hemodialysis patients and 55 age and sex-matched healthy subjects). The shorter coping style scale...

Intra-erythrocytic pH, ATP concentrations, and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate relaxation times were studied in living erythrocytes by "high-resolution" 31P NMR spectroscopy to assess homeostasis within the cells. In uremic patients, intra-erythrocytic pH is significantly decreased before hemodialysis, but is corrected equally well by hemodialysis against either acetate or bicarbonate. This acidic pHi m...

In this paper, we adopt Bayesian networks for discovering temporal-state transition patterns in the Hemodialysis process. Bayesian network is a graphical model that encodes probabilistic relationships among variables, and easily incorporatesnew instances to maintain rules up to date. We demonstrate the proposed method in representing the causal relationships between medical treatments and trans...

Hemodialysis and hemoperfusion have been evaluated, and both are effective in removing theophylline. We report two consecutive cases of theophylline intoxication in which the sequential treatment of charcoal hemoperfusion and hemodialysis is contrasted to the simultaneous "in series" treatment of hemodialysis and charcoal hemoperfusion. Analysis of the two methodologies shows that the combined ...