BACKGROUND After the concept of healthcare associated pneumonia (HCAP) was introduced in 2005 by the American Thoracic Society/Infectious Disease Society of America (ATS/IDSA), pneumonia in hemodialysis patients has been classified as HCAP. Even though there are several risk factors and scoring systems of drug-resistant pathogens (DRPs) in HCAP, the risk factors for DRPs in hemodialysis-associa...

INTRODUCTION Ghrelin is a hormone produced mainly by the stomach, which enhances gastric emptying. The disturbances of ghrelin secretion and/or biodegradation may play an important role in the pathogenesis of gastroparesis in hemodialysis patients, especially those with diabetic nephropathy. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to assess postprandial changes in plasma ghrelin in hemodialysis p...

IntroductIon At present in China, hospital‐based dialysis facilities are fully occupied, while the number of community hemodialysis (HD) centers is growing. In December 2016, the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China (NHFPC) set up “the regulations for the basic standard and the management of hemodialysis center,”[1] which are the unified principles of the nation, as the mark ...

Little information is available on the impact of hemodialysis on cerebral water homeostasis and its distribution in chronic kidney disease. We used a neuropsychological test battery, structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and a novel technique for quantitative measurement of localized water content using 3T MRI to investigate ten hemodialysis patients (HD) on a dialysis-free day and after ...

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...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in the levels of vasoactive eicosanoid hormone-like substances PGE2, PGI2 and TXA2 in hemodialysis (HD)patients who were following a long-term physical training program during the hemodialysis session. DESIGN A total of 50 patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) (stage 5)on hemodialysis and 35 healthy individuals who served as con...

everal modalities are available for the treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), including as main categories renal transplantation, hemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis. In this chapter hemodialysis (HD) is subdivided into center HD, which is the most common modality, and home HD. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) refers predominantly to continuous ambulatory PD (CAPD) and continuous cycling PD (C...

he main categories available for the treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) include renal transplantation, hemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis. In this chapter hemodialysis (HD) is subdivided into center HD, which is the most common modality, and home HD. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) refers predominantly to continuous ambulatory PD (CAPD) and continuous cycling PD (CCPD) with a small subgrou...

background: infl ammatory cytokines such as interleukin-6 (il-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (tnf-α) are elevated in end-stage renal disease (esrd). il-6 and tnf-α are toxins which deteriorate renal function, and their pathogenic role has been confi rmed in cardiovascular and oral diseases. this study was designed to investigate the salivary levels of il-6 and tnf-α in patients with esrd un...