FP705PATIENT PREFERENCES FOR HEALTHCARE DECISION-MAKING IN END STAGE RENAL DISEASE

Healthcare decision-making in end stage renal disease-patient preferences and clinical correlates

BACKGROUND Medical decision-making is critical to patient survival and well-being. Patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) are faced with incrementally complex decision-making throughout their treatment journey. The extent to which patients seek involvement in the decision-making process and factors which influence these in ESRD need to be understood. METHODS 535 ESRD patients were enrol...

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Soluble Adiponectin is a New Predictor for Cardiovascular Complications in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease

Mortality due to cardiovascular complications (CVC) in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) is 20 fold higher than in general population. Adiponectin (ADPN) hormone from adipose tissues accumulation in serum is attributed to reduced renal clearance. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible role of ADPN as a predictor of CVC in adult patients with ESRD on hemodialysis (HD), ...

Bardet-Biedl Syndrome with End Stage Renal Disease

Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is one of the rare autosomal recessive disorders that affect multiple organs of the body. The signs and symptoms of this condition vary among affected individuals, even among members of the same family. We present a case of BBS with features of hypogonadism and features such as marked central obesity, retinitis pigmentosa, polydactyly, renal abnormalities and mental ...

Geographical information system for end-stage renal disease: SIGNe, an aid to public health decision making.

Geographical information systems (GIS) favour interactions between epidemiologic, public health and geographic data, consolidating their spatial relationships [1]. They integrate several types of data, on populations, socio-economic conditions, access to health care and environmental characteristics, and they analyse their geographic variations. Besides their ability to integrate and analyse re...