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Objective: Anemia is one of the most important factors that decrease the quality of life in patients with end-stage renal desease receiving hemodialysis treatment. In these patients, Erythropoietin stimulating agents (E...

ABSTRACT Echocardiographic abnormalities are frequently seen in patients starting dialysis therapy and are also associated with the development of cardiac failure and mortality. In the present study, it was aimed to eval...

Abstract Background Typical atrioventricular accessory pathways (APs) are composed of myocardial cells. They provide electrical connections between atria and ventricles separate from the normal conduction system. Accesso...

"Widespreadly performing cardiac operations and their successfull results, caused to think these operations in the patients with high risk and comorbidities, or for treated patients. Main reason of death in chronic renal...

OBJECTIVE: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is the most common hereditary kidney disease. We presented the ADPKD patients who were not undergoing replacement therapy. MATERIAL and METHODS: Accordin...

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to show the impacts of peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis replacement therapies on insulin resistance which can provide important contribution to the risk for development of atherosclerosis and card...

New-onset diabetes mellitus after transplantation (NODAT) is common in kidney recipients, threatening health and longevity by predisposing to microvascular and cardiovascular disease and by reducing graft survival. Sever...

Cardiovascular disease and diabetic nephropahty account for much of the morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes mellitus. Genotypic abnormalities of the reninangiotensin system have been suggested as a risk fact...

Lipid abnormalities contribute to the increase in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in chronic renal failure (CFR) patients with or without dialysis. Lipoprotein (a) and, a unique lipoprotein has been shown to be an...

OBJECTIVE: Apelin-13 is a biomarker that was shown to be related to cardiovascular disease risk in peritoneal dialysis patients. The aim of our study was to investigate the association of serum apelin-13 levels with infl...

Cardiovascular disease based mortality levels in hemodialysis (HD) patients are high. The objective in this study was to investigate the relationship among traditional and newly described risk factors and carotid artery ...

AIM: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Inflammation and endothelial dysfunction contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease in CKD. Pent...

Background/Aims: Myocardial stretch increases cardiac force in two consecutive phases: The first one due to Frank-Starling mechanism, followed by the gradually developed slow force response (SFR). The latter is the mecha...

Chia seed oil presents a very high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs 60% omega-3 alfa-linolenic acid 18:3, 20% linoleic acid 18:2) which are very appreciated in terms of health and nutrition aspects. Clinical...