Dialysis patients
Ankle-brachial index, vascular calcifications and mortality in dialysis patients
... many patients with low ABI values without PAD symp- ...asymptomatic patients. In dialysis patients, the first sign of PAD is frequently a non-healing ischaemic ulcer ...
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Isokinetic Strength in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: A Reliability Study
... peritoneal dialysis patient for at least 6 months; (2) do not have any impediment to perform the strength tests according to the physician’s criteria; and (3) give their informed consent to participate in the ...
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Relationship between Fetuin A, Vascular Calcification and Fracture Risk in Dialysis Patients.
... in dialysis patients,[11] and it has been reported to promote bone mineralization in ...in dialysis patients to investigate the connection between VC and bone volume and the potential link ...
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Iron supplementation and mortality in incident dialysis patients: an observational study.
... in dialysis patients can be identified, above which detrimental effects of iron may become ...in patients with normal CRP levels. In patients with concomitantly elevated CRP we observed a ...
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A Parameter Identification Technique for Structured Population Equations Modeling Erythropoiesis in Dialysis Patients
... all patients suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is mainly caused by a failure of renal excretory and endocrine ...in dialysis patients reduces cardiac-related morbidity and mortality, ...
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Is early virological response as predictive of the hepatitis C treatment response in dialysis patients as in non-uremic patients?
... in dialysis patients are scarce and have involved small numbers of ...included patients with dose reductions and/or early treatment interruption, which can impair the analysis of the relationship ...
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Hepatitis B vaccination in peritoneal dialysis patients - Seroconversion evaluation
... transfused patients on HD exhibit decreased absolute lymphocyte counts; still, most changes in T lymphocyte subsets happen beyond five transfusions (31) and we just evaluated blood transfusion as a dichotomous ...
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Efficacy of Cognitive Therapy on Psychologically Healthy, Social Adjustment, Depression & Anxiety in Dialysis Patients
... The second research hypothesis suggests that "cognitive therapy is effective on mental health of dialysis patients." The results showed that after doing cognitive therapy mental health of ...
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Vascular calcifications in an incident population of peritoneal dialysis patients
... PD patients, whereas treatment with antiplatelet agents was positively associated with ...of patients taking warfarin in our ...to patients with an elevated CV risk profile and with a higher ...
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Health literacy among dialysis patients
... degradation, patients should start their dialytic ...the patients’ bodies (Gama, ...of patients suffering from End-stage renal ...thousand patients suffering from this health condition (10 ...
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Prophylactic antibiotics for endoscopy-associated peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients.
... isolated from the effluent dialysates of the PD peritonitis patients (Table 2). To assess whether antibiotic prophylaxis prior to endoscopic examination was able to reduce endoscopy-associated PD peritonitis, the ...
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Comparison of Toxoplasma gondii seropositivity in hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients
... Chronic renal failure is a state of immune system suppression and this condition can be deteriorated by the progression of the disease and be exacerbated during dialysis [1,2] . Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) can ...
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Hyponatremia as a predictor of mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients.
... CKD patients with lower serum sodium level are also ...ill patients without CKD, vasopressin is secreted in response to neurohormonal ...in patients with CKD is largely ...non-CKD patients ...
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Elderly Peritoneal Dialysis Compared with Elderly Hemodialysis Patients and Younger Peritoneal Dialysis Patients: Competing Risk Analysis of a Korean Prospective Cohort Study.
... elderly patients. Among adult patients (20 years old, n = 830) initiated on maintenance dialysis, 492 patients undergoing PD were enrolled and divided into 3 groups according to age (49 ...
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Predicting mortality in patients with diabetes starting dialysis.
... of patients with diabetes in our cohort was similar to that in other European studies [5], the number of diabetic patients was relatively small for developing a prediction ...if dialysis was started ...
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European best practice guidelines for peritoneal dialysis. 5 Peritoneal dialysis solutions
... of patients with normal acid–base status increases ...some patients during the infusion of the lactate- buffered solutions ...in patients treated with a 40 mmol/l lactate-buffered CAPD solution ...
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Depression and anxiety among patients undergoing dialysis and kidney transplantation : a cross-sectional study.
... Vascular access is one such challenge, particularly when an arterio- venous fistula (the most common and safest form of access for hemo- dialysis patients) is involved. The association between anxiety and ...
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Torque teno virus among dialysis and renal-transplant patients
... undergo dialysis treatment or a renal transplant have a high risk of blood-borne viral in- fections, including the Torque teno virus ...118 patients in dialysis and 50 renal-transplant ...in ...
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Dialysis, time and death: comparisons of two consecutive decades among patients treated at the same Brazilian dialysis center
... initiating dialysis in the United States is ...our patients of group 2 and 15 years more than our patients of group 1 ...of dialysis patients with diabetes in the United States is ...
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Cross-transmission of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus in patients undergoing dialysis and kidney transplant
... (long-term dialysis and kidney transplant ...320 dialysis patients and 38 fecal samples of 280 kidney transplant ...both dialysis and transplant patients. The fact that these ...
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