Background: Cystinosis is an inherited metabolic disease in which transfer of cystine out of lysosome is impaired. This phenomenon leads to accumulation of cystine in different organs and causes organ dysfunction. Growth retardation is seen in these patients and later they go on to develop renal failure needing dialysis or renal transplantation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outco...

Background & Objective: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) definition, quality of life is a state of complete physical, mental, and social health not merely the absence of the disease. End stage renal disease and its treatment affect patients' quality of life. Therefore, the present study surveyed the quality of life in renal transplant recipients, hemodialysis, and peritoneal di...

Background & Aims: Renal disorders can occur due to several conditions such as diabetes mellitus and hypertension, thus hemodialysis, dialysis, and renal transplantation are the ways that can help patients. Considering increasing rate of survival rate in these patients, disorders of oral cavity can lead to low quality of life and can affect the patient’s general health. The aim of this st...

Background and purpose: Renal osteodystrophy (RÔD) is the skeletal response to long-standing chronic renal disease. Nowadays with improved dialysis techniques and renal transplants. Survival rates in chronic renal failure (ÇRF) atients has increased and RÔD is more freguent. Ïn this study we evaluated the incidence of RÔD in ÇRF patients who were under dialysis in Fateme-Zahra hospital in sar...