BACKGROUND The survival of patients on haemodialysis improves as the delivered doses of dialysis attain a Kt/V of 1.2 or more. However, a consistent yet paradoxical finding in the Kt/V survival relationship is that the mortality tends to increase at the higher ends of Kt/V. METHOD To determine the relationship of Kt/V with survival at a time when increasing doses of dialysis are being deliver...

Abstract Background and Aims Peripheral arterial disease affects very commonly CKD patients on dialysis. Frequently such injuries precede severe complications that lead to hospitalizations, amputations even death. Objectives: Study the prevalence of ulcers amputation dialysis, analyze related risk factors, post-surgical results establish a prevention program. Method Descriptive, observational, ...

The classic connected components labelling algorithm requires a minimum of 2 passes through an image. This paper presents a modification of this algorithm that allows the resolution of merged labels to be deferred. This enables the subsequent data analysis step to be combined with the labelling procedure, with the result that connected components can be analysed in a single pass by gathering da...

The fundamental drawback of current stereo and multi-view display techniques is the necessity to perform multi-pass rendering (one pass for each separate view) and subsequent image composition-andmasking for generating multi-stereo views. Thus the rendering time increases in general linearly with the number of rendered views. An increase in frame-rate can be achieved by sub-resolution rendering...

BACKGROUND The association between parathyroid hormone (PTH) level and mortality in dialysis patients is controversial. We hypothesized that wasting, a common condition potentially related to adynamic bone disease, modifies the association of PTH with mortality and cardiovascular events (CVE), respectively. METHODS We analysed data from 1255 diabetic haemodialysis patients, participating in t...

BACKGROUND Amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis is a multisystem, progressive and fatal disease. Renal involvement occurs early in the course of AA. We aimed to investigate the etiology, clinical and laboratory features, and outcome of patients with biopsy-proven renal AA amyloidosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 121 patients (male/female: 84/37, mean age 42.6 ± 14.4 years) were analyzed retrospect...

In this paper, we introduce a novel real-time splat rendering pipeline that relies on components of state-of-the-art splat and mesh rendering methods to enable high-quality shader effects such as reflection and refraction for splats. Our pipeline consists of one single rendering pass and aggressively utilizes the most practical components of both techniques. The entire pipeline is compactly imp...