INTRODUCTION To assess the effects of the habit of having evening dinner on the dietary macro- and micronutrient profile of chronic kidney failure patients on hemodialysis. METHODS Cross-sectional study carried out at a dialysis clinic at the city of Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais. The study comprised 90 patients undergoing hemodialysis. Personal, clinical, and dietary (three-day food ...

BACKGROUND This study investigated the epidemiology of torus palatinus (TP) and torus mandibularis (TM) in hemodialysis patients and analyzed the influences of hyperparathyroidism on the formation of oral tori. METHOD During 2013, 119 hemodialysis patients were recruited for dental examinations for this study. RESULTS The prevalence of oral tori in our sample group was high at 33.6% (40 of ...

conclusions this study showed that pcs and mcs score were slightly more than overall results while kdcs was slightly less than overall results. in addition, dialysis adequacy with kt/v between 1 and 1.2 is associated with lower rate of hospitalization. patients and methods a total of 6,930 chronic hemodialysis (hd) patients enrolled. kdcs-sf version 1.3 questionnaire was used to assess the heal...

OBJECTIVES THE AIM OF THE STUDY WAS: Is primary Arterio-venous fistula the vascular access of choice for adequate dialysis and better patient outcome in end stage renal disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study was done in the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at Sher-i-Kashmir institute of medical sciences, Soura, Srinagar Kashmir. Native Arterio-Venous (AV) fistulas w...

The prevention of extracorporeal clotting during hemodialysis maximizes the effectiveness of treatment by maintaining patency in the dialyzer blood compartment and thereby obviating several important consequences. For example, clotting leads directly to blood loss, as much as 200-300 ml for each episode, depending on the total volume of the extracorporeal circuit. In addition, clotting reduces ...