BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are especially problematic in patients with end-stage renal disease who are undergoing hemodialysis (HD). OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of HCV and HBV infection in HD population in Guilan, north of Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS In a cross-sectional study, from May to September 2009, in 11 different hemodialysis u...

INTRODUCTION Since the Beijing Hemodialysis Quality Control and Improvement Center was established in 2002, some registration work on hemodialysis (HD) has been done. We report here the current status of HD in Beijing, the capital of China. METHODS Data collection forms were distributed to all HD centers in Beijing, and data from 2003 and 2004 were collected for analysis of incidence, prevale...

A high coronary artery calcification score (CACS) may be associated with mortality in patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD). Recently, effects of iron on vascular smooth muscle cell calcificat...

Non-adherence to the therapeutic regimen is an increasingly growing problem especially among patients undergoing hemodialysis. The aim of this study was to modify the Greek version of Simplified Medication Adherence Questionnaire (GR-SMAQ) for patients undergoing hemodialysis (GR-SMAQ-HD) and explore its validity and reliability. Between June 2016 and November 2016 a group of patients undergoin...

enal replacement therapy for patients with ESRD includes several options, the main categories being renal transplantation, hemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis. In this chapter hemodialysis (HD) is subdivided into center and home hemodialysis whereas peritoneal dialysis (PD) refers to predominantly continuous ambulatory PD (CAPD) and continuous cycling PD (CCPD) with a small subgroup of other ...

background: the herbicide 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2, 4-d) can cause moderate to lethal poisoning. although urine alkalization has been recommended as the main treatment, hemodialysis (hd) may be more effective in severe cases. case: on 24th june 2014, a 53- year-old man ingested a high amount of 40% 2, 4-d. he suffered from mouth and epigastric burning sensation, vomiting and nausea. h...

introduction: renal failure affects the mechanical and the ventilatory function of the lungs. a few studies have evaluated the ventilatory and pulmonary function in dialysis patients. the present study aimed to compare pulmonary function test (pft) results in patients undergoing hemodialysis (hd) and peritoneal dialysis (pd). materials and methods: we conducted a cross-sectional study on 50  pa...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is very common in hemodialysis patients and an independent risk factor for mortality in this population. The myocardial remodeling underlying the LVH can affect ventricular repolarization causing abnormalities in QT interval. OBJECTIVE to evaluate the reproducibility and reliability of measurements of corrected QT interval (QTc) and its dispersion...

The whole-body 2-deoxy-2-[(18)F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) distribution in chronic renal failure (CRF) patients on hemodialysis would be different from that in subjects with normal renal function, because they lack urinary FDG excretion and remain in a constant volume overload. We evaluated the difference in the physiological uptake pattern of FDG between chronic renal failure patients on hemodialy...

Care of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is essential but also resource intense. We review several studies on online hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF), which concluded that high-volume OL-HDF is associated with better outcome compared to conventional hemodialysis. The cost-effectiveness of OL-HDF was shown in many studies. For example, in the Canadian setting of the Convective Transport St...