...Yosuke Sasaki; Takuya Isegawa; Akira Shimabukuro; Tomoki Yonaha; Hiroyasu Yonaha Pleural effusion is a ubiquitous complication in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Common etiologies of pleural effusion in this patient group are heart failure, volume overload, parapneumonic effusion, tuberculotic...

...Ryota Yasukawa; Fumihiro Akiyama; Takashi Tsukishiro; Ichiei Narita We report a case of chronic portal-systemic shunt encephalopathy in a 79-year-old female hemodialysis patient with end-stage renal disease. Approximately 1 month before admission, she occasionally had a discrepant conversation...

... hemodialysis patient with severe hyperparathyroidism who rapidly developed growing pyogenic granuloma of the distal part of the left thumb. This tumor mimicked sarcoma and caused recurrent bleeding during hemodialysis sessions. Hand radiograph revealed an osteolytic lesion compatible with a brown tumor. Among...

... and hospitalized more than 30 people, occurred in Japan. While the press was widely reporting this disaster, two maintenance hemodialysis patients were suffering from Campylobacter bacteremia by eating undercooked meat. One patient was infected with C. upsaliensis and the other with C. fetus . Although...

...Mingli Zhu; Yaxue Shi; Jiejun Cheng; Huihua Pang; Leyi Gu; Aiwu Lin; Ying Huang; Yucheng Yan A 76-year-old woman with stage 5 chronic kidney disease requiring hemodialysis had a long history of hypertension and diabetes. Her venous access was exhausted because of several previous access procedures...

...Atsushi Kotoda; Tetsu Akimoto; Taro Sugase; Naoshi Miyamoto; Eiji Kusano The major problem associated with the creation of an arteriovenous fistula (AVF), which is the optimal form of vascular access for hemodialysis, is the fact that fistulas do not necessarily mature into a usable vascular access...

... antihypertensive drugs and dialysis therapy with ultrafiltration. In this patient bilateral nephrectomy was performed as a rescue therapy. It led to better control of blood pressure and allowed to reduce the number and dosage of antihypertensive medications. Hemodialysis Malignant hypertension Bilateral...

... storm is rare, especially in hemodialysis (HD) patients, and is characterized by multisystem involvement and a high mortality rate if not immediately recognized and treated. Here, we report a female patient with severe symptomatic thyroid storm, receiving long-term HD and glucocorticoid therapy...

... of GAVE. We report 3 patients with CKD who presented with severe anemia and were diagnosed with GAVE; they were resistant to endoscopic argon plasma coagulation. However, remission of anemia and improvement in GAVE lesions were observed after the initiation of hemodialysis. The pathogenesis of GAVE...

... report two cases of spontaneous renal hemorrhage in hemodialysis patients. Case 1: A 70-year-old male who had received hemodialysis for 8 years presented with right abdominal pain. He had a history of renal failure due to diabetes mellitus. CT showed a right perirenal hemorrhage. Angiography revealed...