Evidence-based review of therapeutic plasma exchange in neurological disorders.

abstract：:Despite having thousands of blood pressure (BP) readings on individual dialysis patients over the course of a year, our knowledge about the optimal assessment of BP, the mechanisms underlying hypertension and its management remain incomplete. Observational studies reveal that BP is lower at home than when measured in ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Miskulin DC,Weiner DE

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence has been gathered over the last 15 years regarding the role of nontraditional or uremia-related risk factors in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in subjects with renal failure. Among those factors, dyslipidemia, inflammation, hyperhomocysteinemia, and oxidant stress have been extensively studied. H...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Madore F

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few prospective studies have looked at the incidence of hyperkalemia in outpatient hemodialysis access procedures. Our study prospectively evaluated 167 procedures using a preadmit venous blood gas (VBG) and found that 14.3% had moderate or severe hyperkalemia. When the individual procedures were analyzed it was found...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Ross J,DeatherageHand D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For patients who require hemodialysis, beta blockers offer a simultaneous opportunity and challenge in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Beta blockers are well supported by data from nondialysis populations and directly mitigate the sympathetic overactivity that links chronic kidney disease with cardiovascular ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Weir MA,Herzog CA

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure (HF) is very common in the general population, and risk factors for HF, such as coronary artery disease, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension, are frequently present in patients with CKD. Therefore, HF is also an important cause of morbidity and mortality in this population. Diastolic heart failure (DHF),...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Pecoits-Filho R,Bucharles S,Barberato SH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The profile of patients on chronic dialysis has shifted. There is a growing group of older patients with comorbid dementia and ESKD, who are at risk of overuse, underuse, and misuse of dialysis. Policy is lacking to help guide treatment decisions in this group. This paper explores clinical considerations specific to p...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： MacPhail A,Ibrahim JE,Fetherstonhaugh D,Levidiotis V

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialysis is measured as Kt/V, which scales the dose (Kt) to body water content (V). Scaling dialysis dose to body surface area (S(dub)) has been advocated, but the implications of such rescaling have not been examined. We developed a method of rescaling measured Kt/V to S(dub) and studied the effect of such alternativ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Daugirdas JT,Depner TA,Greene T,Kuhlmann MK,Levin NW,Chertow GM,Rocco MV

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombosis is the leading cause of arteriovenous (AV) access failure for hemodialysis patients requiring frequent interventions. We describe a novel approach to the lyse-and-wait technique in thrombosed AV access using nurse-administered thrombolytics in a hospital-based hemodialysis unit. All patients at a single-cen...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Umanath K,Morrison RS,Christopher Wilbeck J,Schulman G,Bream P,Dwyer JP

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Despite decades of research, there are few published guidelines related to the safety and efficacy of exercise training in hemodialysis patients. This has led to disparate recommendations regarding the type, intensity, and timing for exercise, especially for patients with multiple comorbidities. Many common recommenda...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Wilund KR,Jeong JH,Greenwood SA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data derived from a large cohort of hemodialysis patients (12,896) undergoing dialysis access maintenance procedures being performed by interventional nephrologists were analyzed to determine the safety of sedation/analgesia (S/A) in a freestanding facility. Data collected included patient demographics, procedures per...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Beathard GA,Urbanes A,Litchfield T,Weinstein A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialysis remains the predominant form of renal replacement therapy in the United States, but the optimal timing for the initiation of dialysis remains poorly defined. Not only clinical factors such as signs/symptoms of uremia, co-existing cardiovascular disease, and presence of diabetes but also key demographic charac...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Streja E,Nicholas SB,Norris KC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many nephrologists see value in maximizing clearance and time on dialysis, clinical trials have failed to show a clear and consistent benefit of increasing clearance above the minimum threshold level recommended in clinical practice guidelines or of increasing dialysis session length or frequency. Available e...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： O'Hare AM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many dialysis machines can compute dialyzer sodium clearances at multiple time points during a dialysis treatment using conductivity. For a given treatment, the average dialyzer sodium clearance (K), when combined with treatment time (t), and the estimated urea distribution volume (V, usually based on either anthropom...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Daugirdas JT

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical, psychosocial, and lifestyle disturbances, along with physical and emotional symptoms, have been shown to impact the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of those dependent on renal replacement therapy. The value of HRQOL measurement as a tool to improve clinical care has been recognized by patients, clinic...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Unruh ML,Weisbord SD,Kimmel PL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous iron is an important component of the treatment of anemia of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), but it is biologically plausible that iron could increase the risk of infection through impairment of neutrophil and T-cell function and promotion of microbial growth. Any such increase in risk would be particularl...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Ishida JH,Johansen KL

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Tunneled dialysis catheters (TDC) become dysfunctional because of placement problems, infection, thrombosis, and fibrin sheath formation. Occasional patients who are catheter dependant develop frequent catheter dysfunction because of thrombosis or thrombosis associated with fibrin sheath formation. This article attemp...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Rasmussen RL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) failure is mainly due to venous stenosis characterized by significant amount of intima-media thickening (IMT), probably in the presence of negative (inward) remodeling. Our hypothesis is that the longitudinal changes in wall shear stress (WSS) within different configurations of AVF can infl...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Rajabi-Jagahrgh E,Krishnamoorthy MK,Wang Y,Choe A,Roy-Chaudhury P,Banerjee RK

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemodialysis patient outcomes are often suboptimal, with one-sixth of patients receiving an inadequate dialysis dose, one-fourth using catheters for vascular access, and more than one-half being malnourished. This review describes a four-step approach for improving dialysis patient outcomes. First, select an outcome t...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Sehgal AR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adequate dialysis is difficult to define because we have not identified the toxic solutes that contribute most to uremic illness. Dialysis prescriptions therefore cannot be adjusted to control the levels of these solutes. The current solution to this problem is to define an adequate dose of dialysis on the basis of fr...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Meyer TW,Sirich TL,Hostetter TH

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New advances in the pathogenesis of renal osteodystrophy (ROD) change the perspective from which many of its features and treatment are viewed. Calcium, phosphate, parathyroid hormone (PTH), and vitamin D have been shown to be important determinants of survival associated with kidney diseases. Now ROD dependent and in...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Hruska KA,Saab G,Mathew S,Lund R

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in patients with multiple myeloma (MM), most commonly caused by cast nephropathy resulting from precipitation of free light chains (FLC) in renal tubules. AKI may be irreversible and require dialysis and predicts a poor prognosis. Reduction in serum FLC concentration is thought to b...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Gakhar B,Kobrin S,Berns JS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patency of the vascular access (VA) is a fight for the attending nephrologist. A retrospective observational study was conducted to compare the success rate of surgical versus endovascular technique percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) for graft thrombosis treatment. Of 3008 patients, 22.1% patients were di...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Ponce P,Carvalho T,Messias H,Neves F,Lisbon VAC Interventional Nephrology Team.

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baclofen is an oral derivative of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) used to treat muscular spasticity from disorders of the central nervous system. However, it is also being used for a variety of other conditions such as musculoskeletal pain, myoclonus, and alcohol withdrawal. The elimination of baclofen is heavily depen...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Roberts JK,Westphal S,Sparks MA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular complications are the leading cause of mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The excess cardiovascular risk and mortality is already demonstrable in early renal disease and in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF), with the highest relative risk of mortality in the youngest pati...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： London GM

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：: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：:With the recent focus on the benefits of more frequent dialysis, the Baxter Aurora dialysis system provides maximum flexibility for therapy prescription, including short daily treatments, long nocturnal treatments, hemodialysis, hemofiltration, and online hemodiafiltration, all in a compact, reliable, easy to use syst...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Kelly TD

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This publication comments on the recently published findings of a study by Eloot et al. (cJASN, 6: 1266-1273, 2011) that evaluated the correlation between several formulae for calculating estimated GFR (eGFR) and different low molecular weight uremic toxins; eGFRs were based on serum creatinine (SCrea), cystatin C (Cy...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Vanholder R,Eloot S,Schepers E,Neirynck N,Glorieux G,Massy Z

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00