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The number of patients with a failed allograft returning to dialysis increases over time. These patients have increased morbidity and mortality compared with their transplant-naive, incident dialysis patients. The manage...

Hypertension is an important public health problem affecting more than 1 billion people all over the world. Approximately one quarter of adult world and one third of adult Turkish population are living with this disease....

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine home application by hemodialysis patients for hypertension management. MATERIAL and METHODS: The population of the descriptive study included a total of 279 patients who were t...

Hyponatremia is the most common electrolyte disorder and can develop due to many different reasons disrupting the perfect balance of sodium and water. Determination of these factors is important in the diagnosis and trea...

Many guidance-providing documents have been produced on the management of patients with diabetes to prevent or delay the progression to CKD, mostly defined as the presence of micro and macro-albuminuria. However, none of...

Objective: The incidence of chronic kidney diseases increases in older individuals, like all other chronic diseases. Renal biopsy provides important guidance in the diagnosis of many kidney diseases. The impact of biopsy...

Peritoneal dialysis can be a therapy for the short-term management of refractory congestive heart failure, and fluid removal. At the same time it can serve as a long-term ambulatory management either as a palliative ther...

Interpretation of the significance of SAA, CRP and C5a levels in the early diagnosis and follow-up of acute rejection has been aimed. Thirty-nine patients who underwent renal transplantation at the Çukurova University...

Chronic renal diseases cause substantial problems to dialysis patients and their caregivers within medical, social and economical areas. In severe cases, renal transplantation is only hope for the life of these patients....

Wegener’s Granulomatosis is a multisystemic granulomatous inflammation of small vessels that typically effects the kidney, skin, joints and lower and upper airway tracts. Because of the multisystemic involvement, the s...

Kidney disease is a global public health problem, affecting over 750 million persons worldwide. The burden of kidney disease varies substantially across the world, as does its detection and treatment. In many settings, r...

Knowing the nature of anatomic disturbances in arteriovenous fistulas in hemodialysis patients is crucial in the management. Duplex ultrasonography and intraarterial angiography are the main imaging techniques applied in...

INTRODUCTION: The Pseudo-Bartter Syndrome, unlike the Bartter and Gitelman Syndromes, is characterized with metabolic alkalosis without a tubular defect. We aimed to summarize the management of metabolic alkalosis by dis...

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to report a case with a history of therapy-resistant focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis presenting with the main complaint of severe umbilical pain. A 36-year-old male patient with ascites second...

Anemia is a common finding in children with chronic renal failure (CRF) due to the decreased production of erythropoietin when glomerular filtration rate diminishes below 35 mL/min/1.73m2. Red blood cells are normocytic ...

Hypoalbuminemia is prevalent in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients and is related with poor prognosis. Amino acid containing solutions are used in the management of hypoalbuminemia. This retrospect...

Objective: An urgent hemodialysis (uHD) procedure is performed in acute kidney injury (AKI) with life-threatening complications. In this study, we aimed to investigate the clinical and laboratory findings that were assoc...

Objective: Every year, the registry of the Turkish Society of Nephrology conducts data collection on hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and transplantation. Registry reports are printed annually as a booklet, thus making...

One of the drugs which is restricted in clinical use because of economical factors is erythropoietin ( r-HuEpo). Because of high costs, r-HuEpo should be given by correct dosage and best route to provide maximum effect. ...

Percutaneous renal biopsy is an important method to establish a pathological diagnosis, to monitor the disease progression and to assess the response to therapy in children. The aim of this retrospective study was to ana...

Objective: This study will contribute to the understanding and management of hemodialysis-related complications, increase hemodialysis nurses’ awareness and skills related to intradialytic hypotension management, help ...

We report severe bone resorption with iliac bone perforation and vascular calcification due to longstanding hyperparathyroidism in a 60-year-old male patient who had undergone hemodialysis for 16 years. Computed tomograp...

There is no consensus on the incidence and management of cholelithiasis (Cl) in renal transplant recipients (RTrs). In this study, we assessed Cl and its complications in RTrs before and after transplantation by abdomina...

OBJECTIVE: The conditions underlying chronic renal failure have become epidemics in the world. The aim of this study was to reveal the degree of awareness of chronic renal failure among family physicians. MATERIAL and ...