please cite this article as : bakhtiari m, falaknazi k, lotfi m, noori m, naseri saleh abad a. the relationship between personality traits, anxiety and depression, in life quality of patients under treatment by hemodialysis [hd]. novel biomed 2013;1:1-7. background: the purpose of this study is to examine personality traits in renal patients undergoing haemodialysis (hd) and its connection to d...

introduction: we intended to assess the accuracy of re-expressed modification of diet for renal disease (mdrd) and cockcroft-gault (cg) equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate (gfr) in chronic kidney disease in two different etiologies of acute renal failure (arf): acute tubular necrosis (atn) and acute glomerulonephritis (agn). methods: patients admitted for arf or the patients compl...

the present study has been designed to find out the protective effect of aqueus extract of terminalia arjuna against dehydration induced oxidative stress and uremia, protection by plant extract in male wister strain albino rats, and therefore to find out the scientific basis of local use of terminalia arjuna bark extract by village ayurved doctors to protect the progressive kidney disorder (ren...

conclusions the major finding of this study is that one unit increase in serum creatinine level suggests an increased risk of graft failure of up to four times. patients and methods this study was carried out at the department of nephrology, baqiyatallah hospital, baqiyatallah university, tehran, iran, between april 2005 and december 2008. during that time period, 461 patients who had undergone...

background: we aimed to analyze the effect of nursing strategies on patients with chronic renal failure (crf) undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (mhd) treatment by puncturing on arteriovenous fistula (avf). methods: ninety-two patients with chronic renal failure undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (mhd) between jan 2014 and jan 2015 were included in the study (all undergoing avf, dialysis for ...

background selenium deficiency is a common problem in patients with chronic kidney disease (ckd). this micronutrient has anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant effects. selenium is also found in high concentrations in the thyroid gland. objectives to determine the effect of selenium supplementation on thyroid function tests and acute phase reactants in hemodialysis patients. patients and methods in...

advances in nephrology and pediatric urology have increased the number of children who survive renal disease and become candidates for renal transplantation. ten years of experience in pediatric renal transplantation are reviewed to determine the rates of patient morbidity and graft survival. of the 450 renal transplantations performed in imam reza hospital (1989- 1999), fifty-one were done on ...