Buscar recursos académicos

OBJECTIVE: Atherosclerotic vascular disease (AVD) is the most frequent complication seen in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Evidence suggests that inflammation may play a role in the pathogenesis and progression of atheroscl...

OBJECTIVE: Pentraxin-3 (PTX-3) is elevated in uremic patients and related with albuminuria and endothelial dysfunction. We aimed to clarify the relationship of PTX-3 with inflammatory markers (hsCRP and IL-6) in patients...

OBJECTIVE: Protein-energy wasting (PEW) and inflammation are common and related to increased cardiovascular mortality in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Herein, we aimed to investigate the relationships between adipocytokine...

Malnutrition, inflammation and accelerated atherosclerosis are common in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. All these parameters are the causes of morbidity and mortality in this population. It is known that ESRD p...

OBJECTIVE: Vascular calcification is commonly seen in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Fetuin-A has been found to be a vascular calcification inhibitor and its level is significantly low in ESRD patients. Th...

Chronic kidney disease can be defined as chronic and progressive deterioration of the regulation of fluid-solute balance and metabolic-endocrine functions of the kidney due to diminishing glomerular filtration. Inflammat...

OBJECTIVE: Most deaths in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) are attributable to cardiovascular disease (CVD). The relationship between serum asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and CVD has been investig...

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...

Development of malnutrition, inflammation and atherosclerosis are commonly seen in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients and the rates of mortality and morbidity are increased by each parameter. The basis of the malnut...

Iron therapy was shown to increase oxidative stress (OS), atherosclerosis in hemodialysis (HD) patients. An association was found between malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome (MICS), OS and atherosclerosis. Possibl...

OBJECTIVE: Clinical studies have demonstrated that tubulointerstitial rather than glomerular pathology correlates with the degree and progression of renal impairment. Urinary n-acetyl-betaD-glucosaminidase (NAG) is a bio...

AIM: The hepatitis B infection is a subject that still keeps its significance for hemodialysis staff members and hemodialysis patients at present. In this study, our aim was to evaluate whether the infections occurring d...

Galectins, a family of animal lectins, play central roles in immune system regulation, shaping both innate and adaptive responses in physiological and pathological processes. These include rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a ch...

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...

OBJECTIVE: Central venous catheters (CVCs) are preferred when a patent arteriovenous fistula (AVF) cannot be created. CVCs have been shown to be associated with increased inflammation and mortality. In the present study,...

OBJECTIVE: Vascular calcifications and chronic inflammation are the main reasons of the decreased life span and prevalent morbidity for patients on renal replacement therapy due to chronic renal failure. Scoring systems ...

Background Proliferative urethritis (PU) is a lower urinary tract disease of dogs characterized by frond‐like lesions in the urethra. The etiology of PU is unknown, although an association with bacterial cystitis is re...

OBJECTIVE: Hepcidin, a small peptide hormone synthesized in the liver, plays a central role in the regulation of iron metabolism. In addition, it acts as an intermediary in body defense and inflammation. Our aim in this ...

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...

Objective: Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring is confronted with different clinical patterns due to diurnal changes. Rise of BP at night is known as reverse dipper, whereas it is expected to decrease at night phys...

Lipid disorder is a well-known problem in hemodialysis (HD) patients. This condition is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Although a positive effect of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) upon lipid pr...

OBJECTIVE: Despite of similar body weight and body mass index patients might have different body composition. Our aim was to analyze the relationship between Hb variability, rHuEPO requirements and body composition ana...