droxide by calcium carbonate. The calcium carbonate dosage ranged from 3 to 6 g/day. They found that low-calcium dialysate induces a negative calcium balance during hemodialysis (HD) with a worsening of SHPTH and concluded that a change in the current policy of the treatment of renal osteodistrophy can be necessary to prevent these alterations. For 1 yr, we studied the effect oflow-calcium dial...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of high glucose and spent peritoneal dialysate on the transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGFbeta1) synthesis of cultured human peritoneal mesothelial cells (HPMCs) and to examine the effect of costimulation with high glucose or spent dialysate, and cytokines, interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) on TGFbeta1 synthesis of HPMC...

OBJECTIVE To assess the in vivo peritoneal inflammatory reaction in rats dialyzed with neutral, bicarbonate-lactate-buffered dialysis fluid. METHODS Chronic peritoneal dialysis was performed for 4 weeks in Wistar rats with two solutions: (1) 40 mmol/L lactate-buffered fluid, pH 5.2, with a glucose concentration of 2.27 g/dL (Lac); and, (2) 15 mmol/L lactate and 25 mmol/L bicarbonate-buffered ...

Table 1. Demographic data of the reported patients on dialysis with Chryseobacterium meningosepticum infection Gender/ Dialysis Access for Source of Initial Reference age modality dialysis infection Consequence antibiotics Outcome [2] F/33 CAPD a Tenckhoff Dialysate Peritonitis Not respond Not remove access, catheter effluent (TOB + VAN) survival [3] F/76 CAPD Tenckhoff Dialysate effluent Perit...

An in vitro technique was designed to measure the protein synthesis rate in the presence of plasma dialysate from severely uremic patients. Some of them were treated with a poor nitrogen diet, hemodialysis, or transplantation. The data observed with plasma of such patients were compared to those obtained with plasma dialysate of control subjects. Each plasma sample was dialyzed for 24 hr to ext...

Hyperkalaemia is a common, significant electrolyte disorder in uremia. Patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) undergoing haemodialysis (HD) accumulate potassium during the interdialysis period, and clearance of this potassium is one of the functions of haemodialysis. A sudden decrease in blood potassium levels during haemodialysis can induce or worsen arrhythmias, (Cupisti et al., 1999) part...

A spectrophotometric flow-injection analysis (FIA) system for monitoring clinical hemodialysis is demonstrated. The role of a dialysate urea detector incorporated in this bioanalytical system is played by an optical flow-through biosensor based on Prussian Blue film with chemically linked urease forming a monomolecular layer of the enzyme. This pH-enzyme optode-FIA system is useful for the sele...