End Stage Renal Disease

Clinical outcomes and quality of life in hemodialysis diabetic patients versus non-diabetics.

BACKGROUND: Diabetes is the leading cause of end stage renal disease (ESRD) worldwide.

Single-pass albumin dialysis in a child aged six months with phenobarbital poisoning.

A girl aged six months was hospitalized because of resistant seizures and was discharged with phenob...

Laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy: current status and future directions.

In recent years, laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy (LPD) has been gaining a favorable position in t...

Course of chronic kidney disease in French patients.

BACKGROUND: In 1998, a French survey showed that the referral of patients with chronic kidney diseas...

Association of serum intact fibroblast growth factor 23 with left ventricular mass and different echocardiographic findings in patients on hemodialysis.

OBJECTIVES: To determine the association of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) with left ventricula...

Knowledge Translation Interventions to Improve the Timing of Dialysis Initiation: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Trial.

BACKGROUND: Early initiation of chronic dialysis (starting dialysis with higher vs lower kidney func...

Indications, technique, and results of robotic pancreatoduodenectomy.

Robotic assistance improves surgical dexterity in minimally invasive operations, especially when fin...

Assessment of the pharmacokinetics, removal rate of hemodialysis, and safety of lactulose in hemodialysis patients.

Lactulose is often used to treat hepatic encephalopathy or constipation, and also exhibits benefits ...

An international observational study suggests that artificial intelligence for clinical decision support optimizes anemia management in hemodialysis patients.

Managing anemia in hemodialysis patients can be challenging because of competing therapeutic targets...

Prevalence of Factor V Leiden-G1691A and MTHFR-C677T Thrombosis Gene Modifier in Iron Deficiency Anemia: A Pathophysiological Effect in Indian Isolates.

Normal iron levels are required to prevent thrombocytosis by inhibiting thrombopoiesis. Thrombocytos...

Re: Urinary Fistula after Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy: A Multicentre Analysis of 1,791 Patients.

Serum Thiamine Values in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients under Maintenance Hemodialysis.

OBJECTIVE: Hemodialysis patients are prone to malnutrition because of diet or many uremic complicati...

Persisting Hypocalcemia After Surgical Parathyroidectomy: The Differential Effectiveness of Calcium Citrate Versus Calcium Carbonate With Acid Suppression.

The effectiveness of oral calcium (Ca) may be contingent on a patient׳s factors beyond compliance, s...

Serum phosphate as an additional marker for initiating hemodialysis in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease.

BACKGROUND: Reconsidering when to initiate renal replacement therapy (RRT) in patients with chronic ...

Cardiac Biomarkers and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Asymptomatic Hemodialysis Patients.

BACKGROUND: Cardiac biomarkers are often elevated in dialysis patients showing the presence of left ...

Erythropoiesis-stimulating Agents and Anemia in Patients with Non-dialytic Chronic Kidney Disease.

Anemia is common in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). Though erythropoiesis-stimu...

Primary care physicians' perceived barriers, facilitators and strategies to enhance conservative care for older adults with chronic kidney disease: a qualitative descriptive study.

BACKGROUND: Although primary care physicians (PCPs) are often responsible for the routine care of ol...

Multidimensional approach to iron deficiency anemia in infants younger than two years old in Northeast Argentina. 2004-2005.

INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is high among infants younger than two ...

Evaluation of Protein-Energy Wasting and Inflammation on Patients Undergoing Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis and its Correlations.

BACKGROUND: Protein-energy wasting (PEW) and heightened inflammation are prevalent in patients under...

A Boolean Consistent Fuzzy Inference System for Diagnosing Diseases and Its Application for Determining Peritonitis Likelihood.

Fuzzy inference systems (FIS) enable automated assessment and reasoning in a logically consistent ma...

Cytokine profiles in peritoneal dialysis effluent predicts the peritoneal solute transport rate in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients.

Cytokine profiles in peritoneal dialysis effluent (PDE) vary among patients of continuous ambulatory...