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background: this cross-sectional study was conducted to compare the cost-effectiveness of three therapeutic methods of long-term hemodialysis, kidney transplant from a living person and kidney transplant from a cadaver utilizing disability adjusted life years (daly) using data from the records of patients referred to afzalipour hospital of kerman in 2012.   methods: this cross-sectional study u...

background the complications of vascular access are the most imperative etiology for hospitalization, morbidity and mortality in chronic hemodialysis. the most prevalent complication of central catheter is dysfunction due to thrombosis. aspirin is an anti-aggregative platelet drug that may increase the patency of permanent catheters (perm-cath). objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate ...

background nephrotoxicity is characterized and scored by many parameters such as vacuolization, dilatation, hyaline cast, debris or degeneration in injured renal tissue. in this short report, we attempt to find, the most correlated parameters with kidney tissue pathology damage score (pds) in cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity. method a total of 207 normal and toxic rats’ kidney tissue (induced b...

introduction: kidney disease is a major public health challenge worldwide. epidemiologic data suggest a significant relationship between underlying diseases and decrease in glomerular filtration rate (gfr). clinical studies and laboratory research have shown that the mentioned parameter is effective in development and progression of the renal disease per se. in this study, we used learning-base...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to explore whether diabetes mellitus (DM) correlates with the risk of kidney cancer in Taiwan. MATERIALS AND METHODS We designed a population-based case-control study from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Database, which consisted of 116 patients with newly diagnosed kidney cancer as cases and 464 subjects without kidney cancer as controls in 200...

Hypertension is both an important cause and consequence of chronic kidney disease. Evidence from numerous clinical trials has demonstrated the benefit of blood pressure control. However, it remains unclear whether available results could be extrapolated to patients with chronic kidney diseases because most studies on hypertension have excluded patients with kidney failure. In addition, chronic ...

igm nephropathy (igmn) is an idiopathic immune complex-mediated glomerulopathy that was first described as a distinct disease in a nephropathology literature in 1978. here,a historical review and the current status of igmn in the light of world literature and the current experience will be presented. the pubmed (www.pubmed.gov) search was made for articles on igmn as the sole subject of the stu...

In chronic kidney failure, there is impairment in the excretion of toxic non-volatile solutes, with consequent increase in the plasma concentrations of all metabolites derived mainly from protein metabolism, characterized by increased urea and creatinine, The prevalence and severity of anemia are related to the kidney disease stage and the relative deficiency or reduction in erythropoietin (EPO...