background: chronic kidney disease is a health problem in today’s world and hemodialysis is an alternative method for patients with chronic renal failure. preparing provincial and national information on the situation of patients can play a significant role in improving the quality of services provided to patients undergoing hemodialysis. objective: this study aimed to investigate the character...

to delineate the incidence , epidemiology, etiology, and prognosis of acute renal failure (arf) and to compaed the findings with international data, we prospectively studied 2360 patients, admitted at shariati hospital during a four months period ending on jan, 6, 1996. one hundred and twenty-four (5.1%) patients meeting arf crieteria were encountered. the most common cause of arf was prerenal ...

purpose: to report a case of cystinosis and idiopathic intracranial hypertention associated with duane syndrome type i. case report: a 15 years old girl and a known case of nephrotic cystinosis presented to eye clinic with complaints of lid fissure changes on horizontal gaze and headache since 6 months ago. she was obese and had short stature. she had history of kidney transplantation 6 years a...

The number of patients taken into renal replacement therapy programmes has gradually increased over the last decades. This may partly be due to improvements in dialysis techniques and a better availability of these programmes. However, the pattern of the cause of end-stage renal failure also has been changing over time. In the 1970s glomerulonephritis and pyelonephritis were the most prevalent ...

background : pruritus is one of the commonest problems in patients with end-stage renal failure undergoing hemodialysis. pruritus is an irritating symptom which can directly affect the life quality of patients with chronic renal failure. however, available treatments have failed to relieve the symptom and kidney transplant remains the definite treatment of the problem. a recently proposed treat...

mutual incomprehension is far from inevitable. Indeed, Popper demonstrates that in science competing paradigms may continue side by side for long periods of time, and that new paradigms do not obliterate old ones, but rather incorporate them into more successful models.7 Although the variously constructed models for the health service are political rather than scientific, the principle of adapt...

Fetal ultrasound can identify babies who are at risk of developing renal failure. However, damage before birth is difficult to reverse and end-stage failure may not be preventable.