...Seok Hui Kang; Bo Yeon Kim; Eun Jung Son; Gui Ok Kim; Jun Young Do Introduction: There were insufficient pieces of evidence regarding the effect of the two drugs (allopurinol and febuxostat) on patient survival in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Herein, we aimed to compare the efficacy of uric acid...

... dialysis (AKI-D) who were ambulatory and still dependent on hemodialysis (HD) to receive treatment in outpatient dialysis facilities. This policy change generated the ongoing need to improve AKI-D care in the outpatient setting. Methods: Quality improvement study in adult patients admitted to an outpatient...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2023 Cardiovascular disease Chronic kidney disease Hemodialysis Oxylanthanum carbonate Phosphate Chronic...

... events and mortality and the influence of ambulatory BP and other cardiovascular risk factors on these associations. Methods: 242 hemodialysis patients with valid 48-h ABPM (Mobil-O-Graph-NG) were followed for a median of 45.7 months. IDHTN was defined as: systolic BP (SBP) rise ≥10 mm Hg from pre...

... and adverse cardiovascular events in hemodialysis patients, the safety of extremely low-dose ESA is unclear. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the association between ESA dose and mortality in the monthly dosing range of 0–43,000 U of equivalent epoetin alfa in 304 Taiwan hemodialysis patients by using Cox...

... elderly patients (≥75 years). We examined the characteristics of very elderly patients starting hemodialysis (HD) and the associated mortality and prognostic factors. Methods: Data were analyzed retrospectively using a nationwide cohort registry, the Korean Renal Data System. Patients who started HD...

...Panagiotis Theofilis; Aikaterini Vordoni; Rigas G. Kalaitzidis Background: Individuals with end-stage renal disease on chronic hemodialysis (HD) may encounter numerous HD-associated complications, including intradialytic hypertension (IDHYPER). Although blood pressure (BP) follows a predictable...

... in the pathogenesis of vascular calcification, but few studies have examined the association between sclerostin and mortality in hemodialysis patients. Methods: We analyzed a prospective cohort of 654 patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. The primary exposure variable was the baseline serum sclerostin level...

... are the most common cause of death in hemodialysis. Autonomic dysfunction plays a central role in this arrhythmogenic background. Previous studies on hemodialysis-related changes in heart rate variability (HRV) give contradictory results. This study investigated HRV indices both at rest and in response...

... transmissible B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant and significantly reduced the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections and illness severity in the general population [2]. The third dose also led to a significant humoral response in hemodialysis (HD) patients [3, 4]. COVID-19 Hemodialysis Vaccination Humoral response...

...Bruno Legendre; Thierry Lobbedez; Cécile Couchoud; Mathilde Lassalle; Isabelle Kazes; Antoine Lanot; Annabel Boyer; Clémence Béchade Introduction: Switch from hemodialysis (HD) to peritoneal dialysis (PD) is unfrequent, but incentive strategies to perform PD can lead to an increase...

.... Methods: We used international Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study data from 2015 to 2018 ( N = 26,656) to investigate changes in ESA Resistance Index (ERI), calculated as epoetin dose divided by [hemoglobin × body weight] in patients on hemodialysis. We illustrated the proportion of patients...

... the association between nurse caseload and hemodialysis (HD) patient outcomes. We evaluated the association between patient-to-nurse ratio and mortality in the Korean patients undergoing HD. Methods: We used HD quality assessment data and National Health Insurance Service claim data from the year of 2013...

..., it was reported that the CHA 2 DS 2 -VASc score helps predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) or all-cause mortality in patients with or without AF. However, few reports have examined the association between this score and mortality in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Methods: We analyzed 557 consecutive patients who...

...Moshe Shashar; Naomi Nacasch; Ayelet Grupper; Sydney Benchetrit; Tamar Halperin; Daniel Erez; Ilan Rozenberg; Pnina Shitrit; Yaron Sela; Ori Wand; Keren Cohen-Hagai Introduction: Coronavirus disease is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients...

...Julie M. Paik; Min Zhuo; Cassandra York; Theodore Tsacogianis; Seoyoung C. Kim; Rishi J. Desai Introduction: The medication burden of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on hemodialysis, a patient population with a high comorbidity burden and complex care requirements, is among the highest...

.... Anticoagulation Calcific uremic arteriolopathy Calciphylaxis End-stage renal disease Hemodialysis Vitamin K antagonist Cardiac-valve calcification increases as kidney function declines [1-3], and the prevalence of valvular heart disease is double in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) compared...

...Shouliang Hu; Dan Wang; Tean Ma; Fanli Yuan; Yong Zhang; Xiaoli Gao; Qingfeng Lei; Junzhang Cheng Background: Inflammation appears to be at the biological core of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) dysfunction, and the occurrence of AVF dysfunction is related to high death and disability in hemodialysis...

...Daniel Erez; Feda Fanadka; Sydney Benchetrit; Keren Cohen-Hagai Introduction: The prevalence of intracranial arterial calcification (ICAC) in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients is about 90%, and its severity is correlated with age, hemodialysis vintage, and mineral bone disease. Elevated...

... patients on KRT was 41% in the USA, 48% in Europe, and 60% in Japan. Dialysis is the predominant KRT in most countries, with hemodialysis being the most common modality. Variations in dialysis practice patterns account for some of the differences in survival outcomes globally. Worldwide, there is a greater...