End Stage Renal Disease

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 and individual variability. Because therapy recommendations provided by a decision support system can benefit both patients and doctors, we evaluated the impact of an artificial intelligence decision support system, the Anemia Control Model (ACM), on anemia outcomes. Based on patient profiles, the ...

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. Thrombocytosis is usually associated with a mild iron deficiency and is the result of a lack of inhibition of thrombopoiesis. Study participants were 430 iron deficiency anemia (IDA) patients. Ten (10) mL of venous blood were collected for the subjects. Ferritin analysis was done by ELISA method while Hemogram ...

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 complications. The objective of this study is to determine w...

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, such as proton-pump inhibitor use and the choice of...

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 kidney disease (CKD) has been emphasized recently....

Cardiac Biomarkers and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Asymptomatic Hemodialysis Patients.

BACKGROUND: Cardiac biomarkers are often elevated in dialysis patients showing the presence of left ventricular dysfunction. The aim of the study is t...

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-stimulating agents (ESAs) have been strongly endorsed i...

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 older adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD), ther...

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 years old, especially in disadvantaged populations...

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 undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (C...

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 manner akin to the way in which humans reason. Howev...

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 peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), which may indicate th...

Effect of blood pressure and glycemic control on the plasma cell-free DNA in hemodialysis patients.

BACKGROUND: The plasma levels of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) are known to be elevated under inflammatory or apoptotic conditions. Increased cfDNA levels hav...

Comparison of estimated glomerular filtration rate equations at the time of hemodialysis initiation.

BACKGROUND: Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is one of the most important guidelines in deciding the optimal timing of dialysis initiation....

Pathology Image of the Month:Cough and Shortness of Breath in a Noncompliant Patient with HIV/AIDS.

A 37- year-old man with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) was admitted to the intensive care unit following a...

Application of a UPLC-MS/MS method to the protein binding study of TM-2 in rat, human and beagle dog plasma.

TM-2 known as a potential antitumor drug is a novel semi-synthetic taxane derivative. As drug-protein interactions contribute to insights into pharmac...

HEPNet: A Knowledge Base Model of Human Energy Pool Network for Predicting the Energy Availability Status of an Individual.

HEPNet is an electronic representation of metabolic reactions occurring within human cellular organization focusing on inflow and outflow of the energ...

Understanding safety-critical interactions with a home medical device through Distributed Cognition.

As healthcare shifts from the hospital to the home, it is becoming increasingly important to understand how patients interact with home medical device...

Lack of association between anemia and renal disease progression in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.

AIMS/INTRODUCTION: Anemia has a close interaction with renal dysfunction in diabetes patients. More proof is still awaited on the relationship between...