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 ...

INTRODUCTION Inadequate dialysis accounts for the high mortality in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). In Nepal, due to various factors including financial and logistic limitations, hemodialysis is mostly performed twice-a-week. This study was undertaken to look at adequacy of dialysis in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis in Nepal where the patients profile, in terms of di...

There are many causes for carnitine depletion during maintenance hemodialysis. Supplementation with L-carnitine in animals has been associated with improvement in some abnormalities also present in chronic renal failure. However, it is still controversial whether restoring plasma or tissue carnitine will correct clinical or biologic symptoms observed in maintenance hemodialysis. A systematic re...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Controlling serum potassium is an important goal in maintenance hemodialysis patients. We examined the achievement of potassium balance through hemodialysis treatments and the associated fluctuations in serum potassium. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS A 3-yr (July 2001 to June 2004) cohort of 81,013 maintenance hemodialysis patients from all DaVita dial...

AIM To identify independent predictors of hemodialysis treatment outcome among major cardiovascular risk factors and pre-existent cardiovascular diseases in maintenance hemodialysis patients with the end-stage renal disease. METHODS A total of 144 prevalent patients on maintenance hemodialysis at Rijeka University Hospital between 1998 and 2003 were included in the prospective clinical study....

INTRODUCTION Prior studies evaluating the relationship between leptin and outcomes in chronic kidney disease patients have shown conflicting results. Our aim was to evaluate the association of serum leptin with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD)-related mortality in stable maintenance hemodialysis patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We carried out an observational prospective cohort study...

BACKGROUND Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia is an immune response mediated by anti-PF4/heparin antibody, which is clinically characterized by thrombocytopenia and thromboembolic events. In this study, a prospective and multi-center clinical investigation 1) determined the positive rate of anti-PF4/heparin antibody in maintenance hemodialysis patients in China, 2) identified the related risk fac...