Objectives: Malnutrition is a common problem in chronic renal disease patients during pre-dialysis and dialysis, leading to increased cardiovascular diseases mortality. This study aimed evaluate the efficacy of supplemental protein supplementation on malnutrition peritoneal dialysis patients. Methods: Eighty-four stable adult included this study. In addition standard diets, oral nutritional pro...

Inflammation is common and associated with morbidity and mortality in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Exposure to endotoxin contained in the dialysate may trigger inflammation. Dialysate volume is substantially reduced in sorbent HD compared with standard single-pass dialysis. In this prospective study (Clinicaltrials.gov, number: NCT00788905), we compared the inflammatory response to single-pass a...

Malnutrition is a common problem in chronic dialysis patients. There are several methods for nutritional assessment of hemodialysis patients, such as calculation of urea generation rate. As urea is produced from proteins catabolism and there is a linear correlation between urea generation and protein catabolic rate (PCR), PCR can be calculated by considering urea nitrogen appearence during the ...

BACKGROUND In peritoneal dialysis, technique failure is an important metric to be considered. This study was performed in order to identify the relationship between trajectories of serum albumin levels and peritoneal dialysis technique failure on end-stage renal disease patients according to diabetic status. Furthermore, this study was performed to reveal predictors of serum albumin and techniq...

Hypertonic and hyperoncotic solutions are generally used as acute treatment for symptomatic hypotension during dialysis. Administration of hydroxyethylstarch (HES) was recently shown to be an effective substitution fluid in preserving blood volume (BV) and systolic BP (SBP) in a group of stable dialysis patients during dialysis. In this study, in nine cardiac-compromised dialysis patients with ...

background protein-bound toxins such as indoxyl sulfate (is) are not efficiently removed by conventional hemodialysis (hd). objectives to improve the removal of is, we performed an in vitro study to evaluate the effects of high dissolved hydrogen on the dissociation of is from albumin using simulated hd. materials and methods wasted dialysate from peritoneal dialysis was concentrated a hundred ...

In previous work the existence of free thyroxine in human serum was verified by dialysis through cellophane; the concentration of the unbound hormone in normal human serum was found to approximate one-thousandth of the total thyroxine (1). This direct measurement of free thyroxine was in reasonable agreement with the theoretical value computed from data on the per cent of total thyroxine bound ...

BACKGROUND Several studies have suggested that urgent-start peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a feasible alternative to hemodialysis (HD) in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), but the impact of the dialysis modality on outcome, especially on short-term complications, in urgent-start dialysis has not been directly evaluated. The aim of the current study was to compare the complications and ...