Although hemodialysis is a mature therapy, a growing population of patients with more complex medical problems and limitations on resources will require technological innovations to improve the safety, reliability and efficiency of the therapy. The past several years have seen design changes to dialyzers that have provided incremental improvements in small solute clearance and more substantial ...

BACKGROUND Obtaining vascular access suitable for long-term use in hemodialysis patients is of utmost importance. In these patients, autogenous methods are generally used for access. There are various techniques for obtaining autogenous access in hemodialysis patients. MATERIAL/METHODS Our objective was to evaluate the outcomes of the "diamond-shaped anastomosis" technique used as a surgical ...

Abstract Background The state of vascular access affects the efficiency hemodialysis. Poor blood flow causes recirculation, which reduces treatment efficiency. In clinical setting, resistance index (RI) is a commonly used parameter to evaluate access. However, there are few reports investigating direct relationship between RI and recirculation rate. this study, rate was investigated using compu...

In chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD) therapy, peritoneal permeability is gradually enhanced over the duration of the therapeutic course, leading to a grave decline in the therapeutic efficiency. In recent years, a novel therapy (CD therapy), which integrates PD therapy with hemodialysis therapy, is being applied to end-stage PD patients to complement the decline of therapeutic efficiency caused ...

Detection of bacteriuria Detection of cancer (e.g., breast cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer and cancer of the pleura, pancreatic cancer; not an all-inclusive list) Diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders Diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease Diagnosis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis Diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease Differential di...

INTRODUCTION Retrospective studies showed that hemodiafiltration was associated with a reduced risk of mortality compared with standard hemodialysis in the patients with end-stage renal disease. Recently, a few prospective randomized clinical trials found no advantage in survival with hemodiafiltration as compared with high-flux hemodialysis and low-flux hemodialysis. The aim of this study was ...