While there is no doubt that renal transplantation would be the preferred option for all patients suffering from end stage renal disease, this is sadly an unrealistic aim for many patients in the UK. There is a shortage of donor organs and, with the increasing percentage of elderly patients on dialysis, under 50% of all dialysis patients are on the national transplant waiting list. Of the 12,00...

AbsractThis study investigated a 63-day boy with end stage renal disease and abdominalcysts. The antenatal sonography detected anhydraminos, posterior urethral valve,and cystic dysplastic kidneys. Voiding cystourethrogram revealed two obstructivegiant diverticula which at first looked like enlarged renal pelvis. The patient had persistenturinary tract infection and perforation of diverticula. T...

INTRODUCTION This article assesses one of the objectives of a larger study about home peritoneal dialysis (PD) in children/adolescents with chronic kidney disease (CKD). METHOD Descriptive study carried out on 30 children/adolescents with CKD cared for at the Hospital das Clínicas of the UFMG from March 2004 to May 2006. A questionnaire was applied to their caregivers about the reactions and ...

the purpose of this study has been to evaluate various factors influencing prognosis in children with hemolytic-uremic syndrome (hus). forty children with classical picture of hus were seen in 1986-1 991. boys and girls were equally affected, aged from two months to ten years. in 35 patients (87.5%) there was a history of diarrhea which was bloody in25. all were treated with peritoneal dialysis...

objective(s):the aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between insulin resistance (ir) and leptin (lep) gene polymorphisms in peritoneal dialysis (pd) patients. materials and methods: from july 1, 2011 to august 1, 2011, patients who received chronic pd were chosen and divided into three groups (dm, high homr-ir, and low homr-ir). two pcr products of lep were sequenced and aligne...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The pretransplant dialysis modality might influence renal allograft and patient survival after transplantation. Studies published to date yielded conflicting results. METHODS Deceased-donor allograft recipients reported to the 'Collaborative Transplant Study' were analysed, using multivariate Cox regression analysis, considering potential confounders which included p...

Fungal peritonitis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD). This retrospective study evaluated patients with fungal peritonitis in our dialysis unit from December 1999 through September 2003. We analyzed the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients to identify possible risk factors. Main clinical outcomes of interest were tec...

BACKGROUND Home dialysis is being increasingly promoted among patients with end-stage renal disease, but the comparative effectiveness of home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis is unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine whether patients receiving home daily hemodialysis have reduced mortality risk compared with matched patients receiving home peritoneal dialysis. DESIGN This study is an observat...

E nd-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients are at high risk for mortality. The annual death rate for prevalent US dialysis patients in 2004 was 230 deaths per 1000 patient-years (1). Cardiac disease is the largest single cause of death for both hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients, accounting for 43% of all-cause mortality (1). In the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) database, arr...