background the chemical and physical quality of water used for dialysis fluid is a vital factor in the patients overall care who receive dialysis. therefore, the water used for this purpose must be treated with advanced methods before being used for dialysis. conclusions the evaluation of hemodialysis water quality showed that these hospitals were not significantly polluted and the water qualit...

This study was designed to examine the effect of two single nucleotide polymorphisms in the reduced folate carrier 1 (RFC1 80G>A) and the glutamate carboxypeptidase 2 (GCP2 1561C>T) gene on total homocysteine (tHcy) plasma level and folate status in 120 chronic dialysis patients. Red blood cell folate concentration was higher in patients with the GCP2 CT or TT genotype (ANOVA, P = 0.04). Among ...

conclusions dialysis with cool dialysate is a simple and cheap nondrug method, which was readily accepted by the patients. this method could significantly reduce the severity of pruritus in patients during dialysis. results before the intervention, there was no significant between-group difference in the severity of pruritus (p < 0.05). after the intervention, the severity of pruritus was signi...

An assessment of intracellular urea removed during haemodialysis has been made from urea extraction and plasma urea estimations. An apparent wide variation in the movement of intracellular urea in patients with acute renal failure from obstetric and traumatic causes and with chronic renal failure is reported.A method for the estimation of red cell water urea is presented. In two patients with c...

b a c k g r o u n d & aim: in many studies, the survival of patients with chronic kidney disease who are treated with peritoneal dialysis technique has been considered, while this is possible in peritoneal dialysis  patients  to switch  to another  treatment.  to achieve  more  accurate  estimation  of patient survival is necessary to examine all events. the purpose of this study is to estimate...

P,,, plasma pH, red cell pH, 2,3-DPG, ATP, lactate, pyruvate, and glycolytic rate were measured before and after hernodialysis in 25 patients on chronic hemodialysis. The prehemodialysis-resting 2,3-DPG level and P,, were elevated in accordance with the degree of anemia. The resting lactate and glycolytic rate were mildly elevated. Plasma and red cell pH increased significantly with dialysis. T...

The assessment of overall homogeneity of time-to-event curves is a key element in survival analysis in biomedical research. The currently commonly used testing methods, e.g. log-rank test, Wilcoxon test, and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, may have a significant loss of statistical testing power under certain circumstances. In this paper we propose a new testing method that is robust for the compariso...

During dialysis treatments, there is an interest of measuring the dialysis efficiency for each treatment. An easy method has been developed and is based on measuring the conductivity of the dialysis fluid. Today this method exists in the dialysis machines for standard hemodialysis (HD) treatments, and for the so called postdilution hemodiafiltration (HDF) treatments at Gambro Lundia AB. However...

Aluminium determination was carried out in serum and dialysis fluid by a simple and reliable method of nameless atomic absorption with graphite furnace . . No preparatory procedures are required for water and dialysis fluid. In this method serum was mixed with 0.2% HNO, to allow complete combustion of the samples in order to improve analytical precision. The method has a sensitivity of 15 p...

The appearance of phosphatidylserine, an aminophospholipid normally confined to the inner monolayer, at the outer leaflet of red cell membrane may have several pathophysiologic implications. This study examines erythrocyte phosphatidylserine exposure in chronic renal failure (CRF) patients on conservative treatment or on dialysis, to assess possible alterations to phospholipid asymmetry in a co...