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We determined anti-HCV prevalence in 89 hemodialysis patients in our unit and evaluated the relationship with hemodialysis duration and blood transfusion. Also comparing these findings with the results of the studies at ...

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...

In this study, a case of catheter-related bacteremia caused by Cronobacter sakazakii, which was successfully treated with antibiotic therapy, was presented. Since 1989, cases of contamination of powder infant formula cau...

Continuous renal replacement therapies have advantages over intermittent hemodialysis in the treatment of critically ill patients with acute renal failure. Dialytic regimens which have therapeutic aims in common with oth...

Continuous renal replacement therapies have advantages over intermittent hemodialysis in the treatment of critically ill patients with acute renal failure. Dialytic regimens which have therapeutic aims in common with oth...

INTRODUCTION: A signifi cant number of known ESRD patients start dialysis as an emergency. Key factors that determine emergency dialysis initiation have not been well identifi ed. MATERIAL and METHODS: Ninety out of 15...

OBJECTIVE: Acute renal failure is a life-threatening event in critically ill children. The dialysis modality depends on the clinical status of the patient and technical opportunities. We aimed to assess the renal replace...

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to compare intensive and conventional insulin therapies with regards to HbA1c, serum lipids, and other biochemical markers. METHODS: This was a retrospective study investigati...

ccording to recent reports, the most common cause of chronic renal failure (CRF) is diabetic nephropathy. United States Renal Data System (USRDS) showed that in 1989, 3 % of all new CRF patients accepted for renal replac...

We performed this study in order to find the frequency and severity of renal osteodystrophy (ROD) in our patients with chronic renal failure who were either on hemodialysis or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (C...

OBJECTIVE: Receiving urgent hemodialysis (HD) in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients significantly increases morbidity and mortality. We aimed to explore the factors involved in the development of urgent hemodialysis...

Hepatitis-B is stili a problem in dialysis units and the number of nonresponders to hepatitis-B vaccination is relatively high in patients on regular hemodialysis treatment. The reason for low seroconversion rates in hem...

Hemodialysis is associated with chronic inflammation, an important part of a wide syndrome spectrum consisting of malnutrition, inflammation and atherosclerosis (MIA) associated with increased longterm morbidity and mort...

Hypertension (HT) is very common in hemodialysis (HD) patients, and this is the most important factor that increase cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In this study, we determimined theprevalance ofHT ( 2140/90 mmHg...

OBJECTIVE: This study was planned for the purpose of adapting and determining the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the “Dialysis Symptom Index (DSI)” for Turkish hemodialysis patients. MATERIAL a...

This study is performed in Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty Haemodialysis Unit. 172 patients (mean age 45 years; 109 males, 63 females) regularly dialysed for at least longer than 3 months in our unit betw...

OBJECTIVE: Measurement of carotid artery intima-media thickness (CA-IMT) is directly associated with cardiovascular (CV) outcomes. We retrospectively investigated the impact of CA-IMT progression on new CV events in pati...

Vascular access inadequacy is one of the major cases of morbidity in chronic hemodialysis patients. In our study, our purpose was to show the importance of close follow up of the patients in order to achieve a properly...

AIM: Acute renal failure (ARF) is an important clinical problem in the neonatal period and usually related with a primary disease. Unless diagnosed early and treated properly, it may cause significant mortality and mor...

OBJECTIVE: Coronary artery surgery is described as high risk surgery in CRF patients. Volume and electrolyte imbalance are some of the reasons of increased risk in this group. In this study, our aim was to determine preo...

Organ shortage is a significant problem for patients with end-stage renal disease seeking kidney transplantation despite efforts for increasing living kidney donation and strategies such as paired exchange. The donor poo...

PURPOSE: This study was performed to determine risk factors influencing the development of osteonecrosis after renal transplantation. METHODS:We retrospectively evaluated osteonecrosis in 308 kidney graft recipients (...

In this study, the frequency of crescentic glomerulonephritis(GN) and the clinical outcome of the patients with crescentic GN were evaluated retrospectively among 532 renal biopsies performed between January 1990 and Jan...

This article describes the foundation of ‘Pediatric Nephrology’ in Turkey including the fi rst steps in the international arena, the achievements in institutionalisation of services and training of pediatricians, a...