With the increase in life expectancy, the improvement of therapeutic arsenal, knowledge and control of chronic degenerative diseases, the world population has reached older age groups. As advanced age is a risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD), along with the bonus of increased survival, today we are experiencing the greatest burden of progressive incidence of elderly patients on renal r...

Chronic renal disease is associated with advanced age, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, musculoskeletal problems and cardiovascular disease, the latter being the main cause of mortality in patients receiving haemodialysis (HD). Cooled dialysate (35 °C-36 °C) is recently employed to reduce the incidence of intradialytic hypotension in patients on chronic HD. The studies to date that have evaluat...

The complications and costs of chronic dialysis in 4 patients with renal failure due to multiple myeloma are presented. In three patients the paraprotein responded to chemotherapy though without recovery of renal function. These three patients are alive after 18, 16 and 15 months of dialysis, the other dying after 7 months. Hospital admissions ranged from 26 to 74 days per year with infections ...

introduction liver abscess developing during hospital stay in pediatric patients on dialysis for acute kidney injury has been previously unreported. impaired immunity, prolonged use of antibiotics, diabetes and malnutrition predispose to liver abscess in chronic hemodialysis patients. case presentation we reported a case of liver abscess developing in a 6-year-old boy admitted with sepsis and m...

PURPOSE To describe the potential role of the Internet as a vehicle for improving integration of care through activating chronic kidney disease patients and their family members. Also, to describe how that potential is being developed through a website sponsored by the Medicare program in the United States. BACKGROUND The Internet is expanding at a rapid rate, and health-related websites are ...

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) requires replacement therapy (RRT), namely a transplant or dialysis both. Dialysis corrects the electrolyte imbalance and reduces circulating urea creatinine levels. ESRD patients may present with oral complications due to impaired functions, associated comorbidities, pharmacological management thereof.To determine prevalence of periodontal- mucosal in undergoing ...

Background: Quality of life (QOL) assessment in patients on chronic Hemodialysis (HD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD) has rarely been carried out. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of life during hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis treatment in patients referred to teaching hospitals in Urmia, Iran. Methods: All chronic HD and PD patients in Taleghani and Imam Khomeini Teaching Hospi...