..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Ferritin Tuberculosis Chronic kidney disease Erythropoiesis stimulating agent Iron Infection Hepcidin Infection is the second leading cause of mortality among patients on maintenance dialysis therapy in Japan...

...Amit S. Chitnis; Gisela F. Schecter; Martin Cilnis; Katherine Robsky; Jennifer M. Flood; Pennan M. Barry Background/Aims: Few studies have compared population-based tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates by end-stage renal disease (ESRD) status. No studies have compared TB genotypes by ESRD status...

... Institute of the Ospedale degli Incurabili and later director of this hospital. He founded many institutions, including the Cotugno Hospital, but died poor and suffering from diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis, contracted during a post-mortem examination. Armanni is given credit for discovering...

...Mohammed Al-Homrany Tuberculosis associated with dialysis was studied at the Artificial Kidney Unit (AKU) in Abha, Saudi Arabia. There were 13 tuberculosis patients out of 270 patients on maintenance hemodialysis from August 1986 to July 1993, a prevalence of 4.8%. Ten (77%) were female and 3 (23...

... with sustained improvement in renal function. Tuberculosis should always be considered as a possible cause of unexplained renal failure even if the classical pyelographic features of tuberculosis, i.e. calyceal distortion and calcification, are absent. Appropriate treatment may improve renal function and avert...

... on an isolated skin infection with atypical mycobacteria after simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation. A genetic probe categorization revealed an infection with M. marinum . Skin tuberculosis caused by M. marinum is an uncommon complication in kidney or pancreas-kidney transplant recipients, hence...

...Chien-Te Lee; Kuei-Hung Hung; Chih-Hsiung Lee; Hock-Liew Eng; Jin-Bor Chen Hypercalcemia is a common electrolyte disturbance in chronic dialysis patients. Although most causes are easily identified, some are obscure. Tuberculosis, a granulomatous disease associated with hypercalcemia, can appear...

...Seyhun Kürşat; Bülent Özgür We encountered 9 cases of tuberculosis out of our 157 chronic HD patients in 36 months. Four pulmonary, 4 lymph nodal and one isolated dermal involvement were detected. Therapy was commenced without waiting for absolute cultural or pathologic diagnosis because...

...Tushar Vachharajani; Kenneth Abreo; Ajit Phadke; Umesh Oza; Ashok Kirpalani Background: The incidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in hemodialysis (HD) and renal transplant (RT) patients in developing countries is high. With the resurgence of tuberculosis in the US, insights gained...

...I. Castellano; J.R. Gómez-Martino; T. Hernández; L. Mateos; C. Argüello We present an unusual manifestation of tuberculosis in a patient on hemodialysis. A 73-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a picture of fever, dyspnea and weight loss. She had chronic renal failure and had started...

...Saad Al Shohaib; Euan M. Scrimgeour; Fouad Shaerya The incidence of tuberculosis in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia remains high. The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of Tuberculosis among haemodialysis patients, since they are highly susceptible to this infection. A retrospective...