BACKGROUND Marked hyperphosphatemia, hyperparathyroidism and 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency are associated with mortality in dialysis patients. Such data in chronic kidney disease stage 2-4 population are limited. It has been suggested that high-normal serum phosphate predicts worse renal and patient outcomes. The data regarding parathyroid hormone and outcomes in this population is limited. Th...

A pproximately 19 million Americans older than 20 years have chronic kidney disease, and an additional 435,000 have end-stage renal disease (Table 11). The incidence of end-stage renal disease, with its annual mortality rate of 24 percent, has doubled every decade since 1980.2 Chronic kidney disease is 100 times more prevalent than end-stage renal disease, and its incidence is increasing at an ...

The world is facing an epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD). This report discusses the present state of chronic kidney disease care in Brazil. We report frequency of dialysis treatment and prevalence of kidney transplantation throughout Brazil. We estimated the number of CKD patients in the country through a mathematical extrapolation based on data generated by the NHANES. On January 2007, ...

Background: It was recently reported that the severity of coronary and carotid atherosclerosis in patients with endstage kidney disease (ESKD) has improved over the last two decades. However, the frequency of coronary artery events observed at the initiation of dialysis remains high. Summary: Recently, 5 different clinical types of acute myocardial infarction (MI) were introduced in the third u...

Background: It was recently reported that the severity of coronary and carotid atherosclerosis in patients with endstage kidney disease (ESKD) has improved over the last two decades. However, the frequency of coronary artery events observed at the initiation of dialysis remains high. Summary: Recently, 5 different clinical types of acute myocardial infarction (MI) were introduced in the third u...

Background: It was recently reported that the severity of coronary and carotid atherosclerosis in patients with endstage kidney disease (ESKD) has improved over the last two decades. However, the frequency of coronary artery events observed at the initiation of dialysis remains high. Summary: Recently, 5 different clinical types of acute myocardial infarction (MI) were introduced in the third u...

Background: It was recently reported that the severity of coronary and carotid atherosclerosis in patients with endstage kidney disease (ESKD) has improved over the last two decades. However, the frequency of coronary artery events observed at the initiation of dialysis remains high. Summary: Recently, 5 different clinical types of acute myocardial infarction (MI) were introduced in the third u...

Kidney Transplantation in children is the treatment of choice to treat end stage renal disease. Improvements in immunosuppressive management have dramatically reduced the risk of early acute rejection and graft loss, however the long term results in terms of graft survival and morbidity still require search for new immunosuppressive regimens. Reducing of side effects are the challenges for impr...

objective: to determine the risk factors, clinical characteristics, surgical management and outcome of pseudoaneurysm secondary to iatrogenic or traumatic vascular injury. m et h o d s : this was a cross-sectional study being performed in department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery skims soura during a 4-year period. we included all the patients referring to our center with primary diagno...

background liver transplantation (lt) is the only treatment option for patients with advanced liver disease. currently, liver donation to these patients, considering priorities, is based on the model for end-stage liver disease (meld). meld score is a tool for predicting the risk of mortality in patients with advanced liver disease. however, few studies have so far been conducted in iran on the...