BACKGROUND Persistent fluid overload in patients on renal replacement therapy despite good dialysis adequacy or obvious cardiac dysfunction should prompt a search for rarer causes. CASE PRESENTATION We report here a rare cause of persistent peripheral oedema and ascites in a well-dialysed patient. CT scanning revealed a right atrial myxoma that was later confirmed on an echocardiogram. CONC...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between longer interdialytic intervals and hospitalization for cardiovascular causes in adults maintained on hemodialysis (HD). This association has not been previously demonstrated in children. We hypothesized that the risk of hospitalization for hypertension (HTN), fluid overload or electrolyte abnormalities would be increased on th...

BACKGROUND Genetically modified mice show promise as animal models for studying the physiology and pathophysiology of the peritoneum during peritoneal dialysis (PD). Methods for evaluation of the functional characteristics of the mouse peritoneum have not been studied extensively, and the effects of anaesthesia on fluid and solute transport in mouse models of PD are unknown. METHODS A single ...

Control of osmolarity, as well as sodium, urea, and water balance in anuric patients under intermittent haemodialysis therapy is fundamentally different from subjects with normal kidney function. Whereas in subjects with normal kidney function excretion of solutes and water is performed continuously, during dialysis, within a short period of time most sodium and only a small amount of urea are ...

MOST CLINICAL LABORATORIES use paper electrophoresis for the separahon and quantitation of serum proteins. There has been increasing iiiterest in the fractionation of proteins Ill other body fluids, particularly cerebrospinal fluid. Successful paper electrophoresis requires a high protein concentration in the fluid applied to the l)POF strips, If tile total protein content of spinal fluid is no...

introduction the concentration of substances, including urea, creatinine, and uric acid, can be used as an index to measure toxic uremic solutes in the blood during dialysis and interdialytic intervals. the on-line monitoring of toxin concentration allows for the clearance measurement of some low-molecular-weight solutes at any time during hemodialysis.the aim of this study was to determine the...

BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a severe and preventable problem of crushed earthquake victims. Early hydration therapy started before fully removing earthquake rubbles has been claimed to play a decisive role in AKI prevention, which saves the necessity of later dialysis. However, the extent, quality, and appropriateness of its know-how are controversial. METHODS Processing clinical ...