INTRODUCTION This study was designed to evaluate the adherence of maintenance hemodialysis patients to medications and its correlation with quality of life and depressive symptoms. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 150 maintenance hemodialysis patients with a mean age of 56.4 ± 16.4 years (52.7% women) were included. Medication adherence was evaluated via the Simplified Medication Adherence Qu...

APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; ICU, intensive care unit; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment. To the Editor: Renal replacement therapy is recommended to be initiated immediately in patients with life-threatening acute kidney injury (AKI) related symptoms. Ultrasound-guided insertion of hemodialysis catheter is recommended for vascular access. Agitated saline bubbl...

We evaluated the incidence of eosinophilia (≥ 400 ~sl) in a stable chronic hemodialysis (CHD) group of 240 patients treated at a singular unit, and compared it with an age and sex mached control group of 189 non-renal outpatients. The incidence in the CHD patients was 13.75 Wa, compared to 2.11 Wa in the con trols (p <0.0002). Parasitic bowel disease was not present in the 35 eosinophilic patie...

Objective: To evaluate the forearm arteriovenous fistula stenosis in hemodialysis patients using 3D B-Flow imaging technique. Methods: GE E8 ultrasound diagnostic unit was used to three dimensionally reconstruct the image of stenosis segments in 45 hemodialysis patients by executing CT angiography (CTA) confirmed forearm fistula stenosis, 3D color Doppler flow imaging (CDFI), 3D power Doppler (...

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 ...

The aim of our study was to investigate insulin sensitivity and beta cell function in hemodialysis (HD) patients without diabetes. We hypothesized that parathyroid gland function was a determinant of insulin sensitivity and/or beta cell function. The study was a randomized, cross-sectional one and patients were divided into two groups (total 27 patients), Gp.1 being those with relative hypopara...

The prevalence, virological and epidemiological aspects of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and the hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections vary among hemodialysis patients in different countries. Aiming at analyzing these aspects of HCV and HBV infections in hemodialysis patients in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, we studied three hemodialysis units including 434 patients. Serology was used to detect anti-H...

OBJECTIVES To study medicine prescribing pattern for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients on maintenance hemodialysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective observational study was conducted in hemodialysis unit of a teaching hospital with adult CKD patients on maintenance hemodialysis. Patients' clinical profile, drug-use pattern, and medication-related problem data were captured in a stru...

We thank Onder Ayyildiz and GokhanOzge for their interest and comment on our paper “The Effects of Hemodialysis on Tear Osmolarity” [1, 2]. They thought that detection of TO would be performed at the same time of the day regarding the duration of hemodialysis (HD) which may avoid the bias of the methodology according to the study of Niimi et al. [3]. Niimi et al. have enrolled 38medically healt...

Introduction. Plasmapheresis is widely used to remove potential deleterious antibodies from the blood. Because the volume of treated plasma is limited, plasmapheresis can be replaced by immunoadsorption (IA), a more tedious but sophisticated technique that enables treatment of larger volumes of plasma, i.e., >4 L vs. 1.5-2 L. We have implemented in our Department IA technique to replace plasmap...