CONTEXT There are a variety of dermatological diseases that are more commonly seen in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and renal transplants than the general population. EVIDENCE ACQUISITIONS Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Google Scholar, Pubmed (NLM), LISTA (EBSCO) and Web of Science has been searched. RESULTS Some cutaneous diseases are clearly unique to this populati...

Congestive heart failure, chronic kidney insufficiency and anemia are often present in the same patient. We have coined this triad the cardio-renal anemia syndrome. We suggest that congestive heart failure can often cause chronic renal failure, with both diseases producing anemia. The anemia exacerbates the chronic heart failure, which then worsens the chronic renal failure, causing further ane...

Protein energy wasting (PEW) is an independent factor associated with morbi-mortality in chronic kidney disease. Wasting is particularly common in chronic diseases of organs such as kidney disease with a major impact at the stage of dialysis. It covers 20 to 70% of patients diagnosed with chronic kidney disease according to the degree of evolution of the disease and the diagnostic method used p...

In the past two decades, the international health efforts have been focused on the control of infectious diseases in developing countries with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) given a lower priority. 1 However, the incidence of NCDs including chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing in developing countries where primary care intervention for CKD is often inadequate. 2 The main international fo...

A live donor kidney transplant is a therapeutic option for treating chronic kidney diseases widely used in several countries, frequently due to the scarcity of donors who have died. As is the case in non-living donor kidney transplants, the patient who is submitted to this type of surgery has already undergone a long period of chronic illness and dialytic treatment, which causes both physical a...

background and objective: endocrine disorders are common in patients with chronic kidney disease (ckd). the aim of the present study is reviewing available literature to give a deep understanding of complexities of endocrine disorders in chronic kidney disease. methods: a narrative reviewing method based on the available literature was approached. findings: generally, when renal function decrea...

conclusions dialysis with cool dialysate is a simple and cheap nondrug method, which was readily accepted by the patients. this method could significantly reduce the severity of pruritus in patients during dialysis. results before the intervention, there was no significant between-group difference in the severity of pruritus (p < 0.05). after the intervention, the severity of pruritus was signi...

background many studies have been done on the epidemiology of hepatitis e on general population, but the data among patients with end stage renal disease (esrd) are few and give conflicting results. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of hepatitis e virus (hev) infection and its relationship in esrd patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (hd). patients and m...