background and objective: the anemia of esrd is a complex disorder, associated with serious complications, which increases patients’ mortality and morbidity. treatment of this anemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (rh-epo) is well established. this clinical trial study was conducted within 20 months, from may 2005 to december 2006, in order to evaluate the efficacy of pdpoetin (rh-epo al...

heart failure is common in patients with chronic renal disease, either as a complication of renal failure or from shared risk factors, or is the major cause of death in patients on dialysis. at present, end stage renal disease (esrd) patients who have systolic heart failure are considered high-risk for surgery; and nephrologists and cardiologists are reluctant to refer these patients for kidney...

background sweet's syndrome which is characterized by fever and acute onset of skin lesions is in many times associated with other conditions including renal disease. type of association and true rate is not yet clear. case report we report a woman with end stage renal disease and peritonitis who eveloped sweet's syndrome.

Background: The mortality rate of sepsis and pneumonia is higher in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients than in the general population. Bacterial infections are the most common cause of hospitalization in dialysis patients and the most common source of bacteremia is vascular access in these patients. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of infectious causes of hospitalizati...

Background: Aldosterone has been assumed to be implicated in left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). Preventing the progression of LVH in the early period of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) can increase patient survival. In this study, therefore, we analyzed the relationship between aldosterone level and LVH in ESRD patients who underwent hemodialysis at Fatemeh Zahra Hospital and Imam Khomeini Hosp...

Background: Patients with end stage renal disease have higher incidence of infection dis-eases that is thought to be related to impaired immune system. Objective: To determine the antitetanus IgG antibody level in Iranian hemodialysis patients with end stage renal disease and to find its association with sex, age, blood hemoglobin, serum albumin, dura-tion of dialysis, time of dialysis per week...