background: acute renal failure describes as a syndrome by rapid decline in the ability of the kidney to eliminate waste products, regulate acid–base balance, and manage water homeostasis. when this impairment is prolonged and entered chronic phase, erythropoietin secretion by this organ is decreasing and toxic metabolic accumulates and causes hematological changes include decrease of hct, mcv ...

conclusions people with chronic kidney disease regardless of their age, gender, state of health, and duration of hemodialysis experience high levels of fatigue; it is particularly important for health providers to understand this level of fatigue which affects the daily life of patients. results all the patients experienced degrees of fatigue and 50 (30.7%) of the participants experienced a hig...

introduction: osteodystrophy is one of the long term complications of chronic renal failure and is expressed in two formslow turn over and high turn over. it is an important cause of morbidity in patients with renal failure and if diagnosed and managed properly, many problems of these patients can be resolved. in this study we evaluated the prevalence of hyperparathyroidism in hemodialysis pati...

background: renal complication of leptospirosis is common and its clinical manifestations vary from urinary sediment changes to acute renal failure. the aim of this study was to determine the final outcome of renal involvement in leptospirosis. methods: this longitudinal prospective study included all serologically confirmed cases of leptospirosis with evidence of renal failure. all patients we...

background: chronic kidney disease is a health problem in today’s world and hemodialysis is an alternative method for patients with chronic renal failure. preparing provincial and national information on the situation of patients can play a significant role in improving the quality of services provided to patients undergoing hemodialysis. objective: this study aimed to investigate the character...

background hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a major cause of chronic liver diseases among chronic renal failure (crf) patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. the aim of this study was to identify the hepatitis c virus infection in patients under dialysis therapy from tabriz, northwest iran and estimate the risk factors. materials and methods sera of 462 chronic renal failure patients from five ...

endocarditis and intracardiac infection have been increased recently especially in dialysis dependent renal failure patients. this is usually intractable infection to broad spectrum antibiotic therapy and in most cases surgical intervention was necessary. we have presented 45 years old man with intracardiac infection at the tip of dialysis catheter that after catheter removal intracardiac infec...

background: patients with end stage renal disease have higher incidence of infection dis-eases that is thought to be related to impaired immune system. objective: to determine the antitetanus igg antibody level in iranian hemodialysis patients with end stage renal disease and to find its association with sex, age, blood hemoglobin, serum albumin, dura-tion of dialysis, time of dialysis per week...