Comments on plasma parathyroid hormone levels and their relationship to bone histopathology among patients undergoing dialysis.

abstract：:Parenteral iron is used to restore the body's iron pool before and during erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) therapy; together these agents form the backbone of anemia management in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing hemodialysis. ESRD patients receiving chronic intravenous iron products, which exc...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Rostoker G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translumbar tunneled dialysis catheter (TLDC) is a temporary dialysis access for patients exhausted traditional access for dialysis. While few small studies reported successes with TLDC, additional studies are warranted to understand the short- and long-term patency and safety of TLDC. We conducted a retrospective ana...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Liu F,Bennett S,Arrigain S,Schold J,Heyka R,McLennan G,Navaneethan SD

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are numerous patient, provider, and health system barriers to accessing kidney transplantation. Patient barriers such as sociocultural and clinical characteristics and provider factors such as provider knowledge and awareness of transplantation play important roles in facilitating transplant. Health system facto...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Patzer RE,Pastan SO

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presternally exiting peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheters have been described as advantageous compared to abdominally exiting catheters with regard to infection, wound healing, and other complications. Placement of such catheters has only been described with open surgical techniques and not by percutaneous means. In thi...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Sreenarasimhaiah VP,Margassery SK,Martin KJ,Bander SJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialysis patients are at high risk for fracture, with published rates in excess of a 20% probability of fracture over the next 10 years of dialysis. Unfortunately, there is no accepted methodology for quantifying this risk in advance of the first fracture; conventional bone densitometry performs unreliably in this rol...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Jamal SA,Hodsman AB

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rationale of temperature control during hemodialysis (HD) is to prevent heat accumulation, which increases body temperature and enhances hypotensive susceptibility. Treatments where thermal energy is neither delivered nor removed from the patient through the extracorporeal circulation (so-called extracorporeal the...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Schneditz D,Ronco C,Levin N

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialysis-related amyloidosis (DRA) is a serious complication in long-term dialysis patients, and presents with carpal tunnel syndrome, cystic bone lesions, destructive spondylarthropathy, diffuse arthritis and periarthritis, systemic organ involvement, and dialysis-related spinal canal stenosis (DSCS). Recently a new ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Niwa T

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased frequency of cardiovascular disease observed in hemodialysis patients is secondary to the combination of many traditional (age, male sex, hypertension, smoking, diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia) and novel and uremia-related (inflammation, uremic toxins, adipokine imbalance, coagulation disorders, prot...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Bossola M,Tazza L

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While patients with sickle cell disease currently constitute a very small minority of the US dialysis population (0.1%), there is anticipated growth of this group as the life expectancy of those with sickle cell disease (SCD) increases. SCD patients suffer a high burden of morbidity, which is enhanced by the presence ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Boyle SM,Jacobs B,Sayani FA,Hoffman B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF KDOQI) guidelines recommend Doppler ultrasound (DU) for surveillance of vascular access (VA), but trials have not been unanimous about its benefit on VA patency. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of DU for patency, as well as t...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Guedes Marques M,Ibeas J,Botelho C,Maia P,Ponce P

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomographic (CT) peritoneography has been widely used as reference standard to evaluate continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis-related complications. However, given the varying CT peritoneography approaches used across different institutions, there is no standard value for non-ionic iodinated contrast medi...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Bai J,Dong J,Shu J,Xu Y,Ding W,Chen J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until the discovery of calcimimetics, the management of secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) relied exclusively on treatment with phosphate binders, vitamin D derivatives or surgical parathyroidectomy with limited success. The therapeutic use of calcimimetic agents, together with a better understanding of the pivotal ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Rodríguez M,Goodman WG,Liakopoulos V,Messa P,Wiecek A,Cunningham J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients on hemodialysis are physically inactive. Less than 50% of hemodialysis patients undertake exercise once a week and such patients have increased mortality compared to patients who undertake regular exercise. The reasons for physical inactivity and reduced functional capacity are complex and inter-related, with...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Graham-Brown MPM,Jardine MJ,Burton JO

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients undergoing chronic renal replacement therapy have a high incidence of dyslipidemia. In general, there are increased concentrations of triglyceride-rich apolipoprotein B-containing particles. These elevations lead to increased levels of non-high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels. This pattern is further modifie...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Liu J,Rosner MH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Withdrawal from dialysis is an appropriate decision for situations in which the burdens of treatment outweigh the benefits. Alternately, it can be viewed as a public health problem and suicide equivalent that contributes to the high mortality of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). More than one in five deaths of patients ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Cohen LM,Germain MJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concern over the inherent inefficiency of solute removal by conventional peritoneal dialysis (PD) has led to renewed interest in continuous flow PD (CFPD). We present clinical data from two experiences with CFPD. In the first, two catheters were used to recirculate a fixed intraperitoneal volume through an external ci...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Amerling R,DeSimone L,Inciong-Reyes R,Pangilinan A,Folden T,Ronco C,Gotch FA,Levin N

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous designs for tunneled hemodialysis catheter have been developed in an effort to improve catheter function and survival. In this prospective randomized controlled study, 97 patients were randomized into the palindrome catheter group (PC, n = 47) and step-tip catheter group (SC, n = 50). Demographic characterist...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Hwang HS,Kang SH,Choi SR,Sun IO,Park HS,Kim Y

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe hypothermia is defined as a core body temperature <28°C and is associated with in-hospital mortality rates of 50% or higher. Delays in rewarming and slower rates of rewarming are the most important prognostic factors associated with increased mortality. Arrhythmias are the most common cause of mortality in pati...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Singh T,Hallows KR

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) makes extensive use of presterilized disposable items which, after use, are contaminated by blood. The preferred route of disposal of such items is by incineration. Disposal costs have risen and this increase in costs has not been matched by waste management programs in ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Hoenich NA,Levin R,Pearce C

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients receiving hemodialysis, the provision of safe and effective vascular access using an arteriovenous fistula or graft is regarded as a critical priority by patients and health professionals. Vascular access failure is associated with morbidity and mortality, such that strategies to prevent these outcomes are...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Viecelli AK,Mori TA,Roy-Chaudhury P,Polkinghorne KR,Hawley CM,Johnson DW,Pascoe EM,Irish AB

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer and kidney disease are linked by causality and comorbidities. Observational data show an increased risk of malignancy as renal function declines. Erythropoietin stimulating agents (ESAs), which are the cornerstone therapy for anemia patients with chronic kidney disease and cancer, are associated with increased ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Latcha S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression has been documented as the most frequently encountered psychological problem in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients and has been correlated with both mortality and morbidity in these patients. Previous work by our group has shown that clinical depression is treatable with psychotropic medications in the...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Wuerth D,Finkelstein SH,Kliger AS,Finkelstein FO

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Home hemodialysis is not a new therapy; rather it is a therapy in which interest has been rekindled due to both the continually growing end-stage renal disease population and concern about poor outcomes in patients on conventional thrice-weekly in-center dialysis. The practical issues to be considered when starting a ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Moran J,Kraus M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation, venous thromboembolism, and access malfunction are common clinical problems in dialysis patients that prompt consideration of warfarin therapy. Atrial fibrillation appears to be more common in people with low glomerular filtration rate (GFR) or on dialysis than in the general population, but the r...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Holden RM,Clase CM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic prophylaxis has been employed to reduce the risk of infection. Many reports have documented the role of prophylactic antibiotics on the subsequent development of infection in patients undergoing surgical as well as a variety of percutaneous interventions including cardiac, vascular, biliary, genitourinary, ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Salman L,Asif A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA) is a rare but serious life-threatening complication of CRF that manifests as painful nonhealing eschars in association with panniculitis and dermal necrosis. This condition is being increasingly recognized and reported as a contributing factor to death in dialysis patients. The pat...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Rogers NM,Teubner DJ,Coates PT

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with end-stage renal disease are more likely to suffer from gastrointestinal (GI) problems, including bleeding from upper and lower sources. Peptic ulcer disease is the most common cause of upper GI bleeding, and although there is some debate in the literature regarding whether the frequency of ulcer disease ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Kalman RS,Pedrosa MC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vancomycin, a glycopeptide antibiotic, has remained a popular antimicrobial agent throughout the past five decades, and is often included in empiric antibiotic regimens. With gram-positive coverage, it has found a niche in the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Although vancomycin has been in ex...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Pallotta KE,Manley HJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatigue is common in chronic hemodialysis (HD) patients and impacts on daily living, impairs significantly the quality of life, increases the risk of cardiovascular events and negatively influences survival. Although numerous social, demographic, clinical, and laboratory variables have been associated with fatigue, th...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Bossola M,Vulpio C,Tazza L

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Extracorporeal Treatments In Poisoning (EXTRIP) workgroup was formed to provide recommendations on the use of extracorporeal treatments (ECTR) in poisoning. Here, the workgroup presents its results for tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs). After an extensive literature search, using a predefined methodology, the subgr...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Yates C,Galvao T,Sowinski KM,Mardini K,Botnaru T,Gosselin S,Hoffman RS,Nolin TD,Lavergne V,Ghannoum M,EXTRIP workgroup.

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00