T he adequacy of peritoneal dialysis in terms of urea and creatinine kinetics is becoming better established (1 ,2). Weekly creatinine clearance of more than 50 L normalized to body surface area are currently recommended for minimally adequate dialysis. The delivery of an adequate peritoneal dialysis prescription is dependent on the compliance of the patient with that prescription. Keen et at. ...

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...

BACKGROUND Ghrelin has been characterized as a relevant physiologic regulator of appetite and body weight in humans. However, the potential relationships between ghrelin levels, inflammation and malnutrition in dialysis patients have not been adequately studied. METHODS We used a cross-sectional design to study 20 haemodialysis (HD) and 21 peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients, and compared their...

data suggest that dialysis treatment should be initiated The CANUSA study group included 14 centres in earlier, that the total weekly clearance of small molecuNorth America; 10 in Canada and four in the US. lar weight solutes should be considerably higher than There were 680 new CAPD or continuous cyclic periis current practice and that higher peritoneal transport toneal dialysis (CCPD) patient...

Vascular accesses consist of permanent arteriovenous (AV) accesses (autogenous fistulas and synthetic grafts) and venous accesses (central venous catheters [CVCs]). AV accesses have fewer complications than venous accesses, and are therefore the preferred hemodialysis access. An important additional issue is whether the type of access influences adequacy of dialysis (i.e. Kt/V). Key limiting fa...

BACKGROUND Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is widely estimated by serum creatinine based equations such as Cockcroft-Gault (CG) standardized for body surface, and an abbreviated formula derived from MDRD (modification of diet in renal disease) study. However, some studies suggested that creatinine based estimation of GFR formula can be replaced by cystatin C based formula. OBJECTIVES The aim...

Since it was introduced in 1976, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) has won acceptance in many centres and it is now regarded as an important alternative to haemodialysis. CAPD patients have comparable and, in some circumstances, better survival than those on chronic haemodialysis. It is indicated particularly in patients with diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular instability and at t...