Renal diseases and dialysis as its commonest protective treatment impose many complexities and tensions to patients. They suffer from various tensions and pressures, such as severe stress, financial problems, restrictive diets, physical side effects of medications, and dependence to the machine. They ...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in critically ill patients, and the incidence of AKI patients requiring dialysis has also increased recently1,2,3. The development of AKI can be associated with increased morbidity, mortality and health-care costs1,4,5. Renal replacement therapy...
Antibody response to vaccination with hepatitis B vaccine (HB-Vax) was evaluated in 43 staff, 81 dialysis patients and 12 non-dialysed uraemic patients. We confirmed less frequent seroconversion and lower concentration of antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBs) in dialysis patients despite...
- 《American Journal of Kidney Diseases the Official Journal of the National Kidney Foundation》 被引量: 207发表: 1996年 Effects of dose of dialysis on morbidity and mortality. The annual mortality rate of patients on hemodialysis in the United States is 24.3%, substantially higher than the ...
Predictors of Early Mortality among Incident US Hemodialysis Patients in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) Mortality risk among hemodialysis () patients may be highest soon after initiation of . A period of elevated mortality risk was identified among US inciden... BD ...
The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that cholecalciferol supplementation improves cardiac function and reduces blood pressure (BP) and pulse wave velocity (PWV) in patients on chronic dialysis. Methods In a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study, we investigated the effect ...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate effect of age on hypertensive status in chronic kidney disease (CKD). METHODS: We studied 459 prevalent CKD patients (stages 2-5, no dialysis), grouped by age (or= 75 years), undergoing clinical blood pressure (CBP) and ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) measurement. RES...
Table 1.Clinical characteristics of the patients. Gender (F/M)20/23 Age (years)53.98 ± 18,06 Time of dialysis (years)5.12 ± 5.67 Presence of hypertension32 (76%) Presence of diabetes mellitus16 (38%) Mean URR (%)73.52 ± 6.1 ...
care that is routinely given to patients admitted to the hospital, which includes fluid replacement, electrolyte replacement, symptomatic treatment (antiemetics, anti-diarrheal), corticosteroids or any treatment not specific to the treatment of amanitin poisoning, such as activated charcoal and dialysis....
Effects of Growth Hormone in Patients with Chronic Renal Failure: Experience in Children and Adults The control of hyperphosphatemia is a major clinical problem in patients with chronic renal failure receiving regular dialysis treatment. Despite continuing concern about aluminum toxicity, aluminum-containin...