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ESRD patients' expected survival increased with the amelioration of the quality of care in both long term HD and CAPD. Beta -2 microglobulin type dialysis amiloidosis and its clinical manifestations like osteo articular,...

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...

Peritonitis associated with gram-negative bacteria presents difficulties in the follow-up of patients with chronic peritoneal dialysis. Especially in perionitis related to Pseudomonas spp., treatment becomes difficult an...

Peritonitis is a common clinical problem in patients treated by peritoneal dialysis. The most common organisms causing peritonitis are Gram-positive (especially staphylococcus species). Peritonitis with Streptococcus aga...

Hiccup is a sudden contraction of the inspiratory muscles, followed by an abrupt closure of the glottis, thus producing a characteristic sound. Hiccups serve no known physiologic function. Mostly, it is a benign symptom ...

OBJECTIVE: Hemolysis is one of the rare and occasionally fatal complications of hemodialysis. The cause of hemolysis should be found for the prevention of further hemolysis and deaths. The checklist for the cause of hemo...

Dialysis is used when the patient's kidneys can no longer perform their functions normally; it is a treatment that performs the functions of natural kidneys. Most patients begin dialysis when their kidneys have lost 85-9...

Background: Fetuin-A is a negative acute-phase reactant which prevents vascular calcification. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most important cause of mortality in patients undergoing renal replacement therapy (RRT)...

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...

Therapy of the anemia is a serious problem in patients with chronic renal failure. Several reports on adult patients have shown that supplementation with Lcarnitine can decrease the requirement for rhEPO. We investigated...

Hypertension (HT) continues to be one of the major causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. It is assumed that blood pressure (BP) should, theoretically, be better-cont...

This study was planned to investigate the possible role of endogenous nitric oxide (NO) in acute hypotension during hemodialysis. Twenty-seven patients who had normal blood pressure before hemodialysis(HD) were included ...

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: Cognitive dysfunction (CD) is common among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and contributes to morbidity and mortality. We aimed to explore the factors involved in the development of CD in patients w...

In this article, common psychological problems of dialysis patients are presented. There are many organic, psychological and social problems which accompany the chronic renal failure. Beside changes of life style, the pa...

OBJECTIVE: There is little knowledge on the differences between PD or HD initiation in terms of early and late morbidity and other complications. We aimed to compare the effect of different dialysis modalities on inflamm...

End stage renal disease (ESRD) is known to be associated with well known risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD) like hypertension and dyslipidemia. The aim of this study is to compare 2 groups of ESRD patients, who...

OBJECTIVE: There are various methods for inserting a peritoneal dialysis catheter. Conventional and laparoscopic methods are superior to each other in many different aspects. In this study, both methods were compared wit...

Fungal peritonitis is an important reason of catheter loss among peritoneal dialysis patients. The most frequently isolated agents are Candida species and some patients do not respond to the treatment and die. Two siblin...

Dialysate sodium (Nα) and ultrafitration (UF) profiling are two methods to reduce dialysis-induced hypotension. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of combining these techniques to reduce dialysisinduced...

OBJECTIVE: Residual renal function (RRF) is an important predictor of patient and dialysis technique survival in both hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD). Although there have been some studies conducted recent...

INTRODUCTION and AIMS: Arteriovenous (AV) fistulas are the most frequently used blood vessel entrances in chronic hemodialysis patients. In this study the appropriateness of AV fistulas in 38 patients were evaluated and ...

OBJECTIVE: Patients with chronic kidney disease have a worse prognosis and carry a high risk of cardiovascular death and in particular sudden cardiac death. Reduced heart rate variability predicted an increased risk of m...