Endotoxemia in end-stage kidney disease.

abstract：:This review aims to summarize the available evidence of the effectiveness of oral iron in patients receiving dialysis. Four small randomized controlled trials (105 evaluated patients) compared oral iron supplements with placebo or no treatment; hemoglobin and ferritin levels did not differ significantly between groups...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Hodson EM,Craig JC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To prevent pyrogenic reactions during hemodialysis, it is recommended that bacteria and endotoxin in dialysate not exceed 100-200 colony forming units (CFU)/ml and 0.25-2 endotoxin units (EU)/ml, respectively. While these limits are adequate to prevent acute pyrogenic reactions, data are accumulating to suggest they m...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Ward RA

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In performing percutaneous renal biopsy (PRB) of native kidneys, an increasing use of 16-gauge automated biopsy needles has been observed. We compare the adequacy and safety of PRBs in adults performed with a 14-gauge (n = 82) vs. 16-gauge (n = 55) automated needle using real-time ultrasound (US) from 1/2010 to 12/201...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Chunduri S,Whittier WL,Korbet SM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of stents has been steadily increasing in the management of dialysis access dysfunction. The purpose of this report was to review the use of covered stents in failed forearm fistulas and describe a case of the use of a small caliber forearm covered stent in a early failed forearm fistula that allowed dialysis ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Ross JL

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：: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：:Laughter and humor therapy have been used in health care to achieve physiological and psychological health-related benefits. The application of these therapies to the dialysis context remains unclear. This paper reviews the evidence related to laughter and humor therapy as a medical therapy relevant to the dialysis pa...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Bennett PN,Parsons T,Ben-Moshe R,Weinberg M,Neal M,Gilbert K,Rawson H,Ockerby C,Finlay P,Hutchinson A

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Protein-energy wasting (PEW) is common in hemodialysis patients and is linked with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Regarding importance of nutrition in these patients, a recent study was administered to evaluate the nutritional status of hemodialysis patients. MATERIALS:In this cross-sectional stu...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Akhlaghi Z,Sharifipour F,Nematy M,Safarian M,Malekahmadi M,Barkhidarian B,Norouzy A

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriate antibiotic dosing in critically ill, infected, patients receiving continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is crucial to improve patient outcomes. Severe sepsis and septic shock result in changes in pharmacokinetic parameters, including increased volume of distribution, hypoalbuminemia, and changes in r...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Shaw AR,Chaijamorn W,Mueller BA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) is mainly limited to supportive therapy, with dialysis as one of the main components. Whether or not to offer dialysis and when to withdraw dialysis is a one of the many choices physicians face in daily clinical practice. Withholding or withdrawing r...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Claure-Del Granado R,Mehta RL

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, patients returning to dialysis after a failed transplant comprised of 5-10% of the annual number of dialysis initiations in the United States, whereas retransplant candidates account for 5.0-13% of the annual deceased donor wait-list additions. The United States Renal Data System (USRDS) database...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Pham PT,Pham PC

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meta-analyses of the published literature are increasingly being used, allowing similar clinical trials to be combined quantitatively, thereby increasing the precision of the estimation of treatment effect. Four meta-analyses were recently published comparing the impact of dialysis membranes or dialysis modality on cl...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Teehan GS,Liangos O,Lau J,Levey AS,Pereira BJ,Jaber BL

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:Elderly individuals comprise an ever-increasing proportion of patients on renal replacement therapy (RRT). As in younger patients, cardiovascular events are the major cause of death in the elderly on RRT, although the relative proportion succumbing to cardiovascular events is similar to that in young patients. An impo...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Dikow R,Zeier M,Ritz E

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While oral diuretics are commonly used in patients with chronic kidney disease for the management of volume and blood pressure, they are often discontinued upon initiation of dialysis. We suggest that diuretics are considerably underutilized in peritoneal dialysis and haemodialysis patients despite numerous potential ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Trinh E,Bargman JM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has recently published clinical practice guidelines for bone metabolism and disease in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients (the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative [K/DOQI]). Data from the literature show that the majority of dialysis patients treated with traditional calc...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Uribarri J,National Kidney Foundation.

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a simple, safe, gentle, and efficient renal replacement therapy (RRT) method. It is able to correct acute kidney injury (AKI)-induced metabolic, electrolytic, and acid-base disorders and volume overload both in and out the intensive care unit setting. Some PD modalities, such as high-volume...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Burdmann EA,Chakravarthi R

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a progressive, fatal pulmonary circulatory disease that accompanies many conditions (including left to right side shunt) with compensatory elevated cardiac output. PH also complicates chronic hemodialysis (HD) therapy immediately after the creation of an arteriovenous (AV) access, even b...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Yigla M,Abassi Z,Reisner SA,Nakhoul F

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Home dialysis (home HD or home PD) remains underutilized in most jurisdictions. Physicians, advanced-practice nurses, and policy makers working with chronic kidney disease populations can provide insights into patient, healthcare professional, and system-level barriers to home dialysis selection by suitable patients. ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Osterlund K,Mendelssohn D,Clase C,Guyatt G,Nesrallah G

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of peritoneal dialysis (PD) as a modality in renal replacement therapy has been well established. In this article we review various aspects in the evolution of PD, with special emphasis on adequacy. Until the late 1950s PD was still considered as a last resort in the treatment of terminal uremia. The introduc...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Haq NU,Nolph KD

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：: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：:The bone disease associated with end-stage renal failure (ESRD) and treatment are complex and multifactorial, and has changed in both clinical and imaging features over the past three decades. Whereas previously features of vitamin D deficiency (rickets/osteomalacia) and intense, and prolonged, secondary hyperparathyr...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Adams JE

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arteriovenous grafts (AVGs) suffer from high thrombosis rates. It is not known whether placement of stent grafts at the venous anastomosis (VA) of thrombosed AVGs would impact future thrombosis. This is a retrospective study evaluating a group of AVGs that underwent endovascular thrombectomy with placement of a stent ...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Nassar GM,Suki D,Rhee E,Khan AJ,Nguyen B,Achkar K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "reverse epidemiology" is used to indicate that such surrogates of cardiovascular risk and metabolic syndrome as obesity, hypercholesterolemia and hypertension are paradoxically associated with greater survival in individuals with chronic disease states and wasting, including dialysis patients, in whom the sh...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Kalantar-Zadeh K

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several neurologic disorders have been treated with therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE). Case reports, case series, and clinical trials have published results regarding the outcomes in such patients. The data gathered have been used to formulate evidence-based guidelines, which can be used to guide therapy in patients w...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Chhibber V,Weinstein R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is abundant evidence that chronic renal failure (CRF) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) alter drug disposition by affecting protein and tissue binding and reducing systemic clearance of renally cleared drugs. What is not fully appreciated is that CRF can significantly reduce nonrenal clearance and alter the bio...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Dreisbach AW,Lertora JJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:Dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an expanding problem for healthcare systems worldwide. The prevalence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has increased by 20% since 2000 and stands at 1699 per million people in the USA. ESRD is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular comorbidity, increased...

journal_title：Seminars in dialysis

authors： Trainor D,Borthwick E,Ferguson A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00