Introduction: Chronic kidney disease is the most important public health issue affecting about 10% of world adult population. Objective: To assess frequency Hepatitis C Virus in chronic patients on regular hemodialysis at tertiary care hospital, Peshawar Methodology: This was descriptive cross sectional study, carried out Medicine department, Hayatabad Medical Complex, for one year duration fro...

Background and Aims: End-stage renal disease patients treated by hemodialysis (HD) are more susceptible for infection by viral hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections. Infection by these viruses is promoted by the characteristic immunological dysfunction that develops in renal failure and interferes with the patient's ability to eliminate these viruses. Prevalence of these v...

conclusions people with chronic kidney disease regardless of their age, gender, state of health, and duration of hemodialysis experience high levels of fatigue; it is particularly important for health providers to understand this level of fatigue which affects the daily life of patients. results all the patients experienced degrees of fatigue and 50 (30.7%) of the participants experienced a hig...

INTRODUCTION Retrospective studies showed that hemodiafiltration was associated with a reduced risk of mortality compared with standard hemodialysis in the patients with end-stage renal disease. Recently, a few prospective randomized clinical trials found no advantage in survival with hemodiafiltration as compared with high-flux hemodialysis and low-flux hemodialysis. The aim of this study was ...

Fucosylated chondroitin sulfate (FucCS) is a structurally distinct glycosaminoglycan found in sea cucumber species. It has the same backbone composition of alternating 4-linked glucuronic acid and 3-linked N-acetyl galactosamine residues within disaccharide repeating units as regularly found in mammalian chondroitin sulfates. However, FucCS has also sulfated fucosyl branching units 3-O-linked t...

Introduction: In the 1980s cardiologists began using the size of the inferior vena cava (IVC) as seen on ultrasound (US) as a surrogate for the right sided filling pressures of the heart .1 Over time, this concept has been investigated in patients in a variety of settings such as hemodialysis clinics, cardiac units, intensive care units (ICU), and the emergency department (ED). The emergency me...

background hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a major cause of chronic liver diseases among chronic renal failure (crf) patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. the aim of this study was to identify the hepatitis c virus infection in patients under dialysis therapy from tabriz, northwest iran and estimate the risk factors. materials and methods sera of 462 chronic renal failure patients from five ...