..., donor type, immuno-suppressive medication, hospitalization dates, and indications (infections and non-infectious) during follow-up period and graft outcomes was recorded. Results: A total of 74 children (46 males) were followed up for a median of 54 months. Among them, 69 patients (93.2%) were...

...Claudio Ronco; Thiago Reis; Mario Cozzolino The current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spotlighted the vulnerability of patients with chronic kidney disease stage 5 on maintenance hemodialysis (HD) to the viral infection. Social distancing is the most effective preventive measure...

... have a substantial increased risk of subsequent infection and sepsis. Indeed, sepsis is the leading cause of death in patients with established AKI. Unfortunately, little is known regarding the nature of the abnormal immune response that increases the risk for septic complications which may...

... States contributed to one-third of total Medicare costs, and the 2 leading causes were infection (27%) and cardiovascular diseases (24%) [ 3 ]. Multiple comorbidities or interventions associated with dialysis treatment could lead to large differences in hospitalization rates between patients on chronic...

...; Roser Torra; Folkert W. Visser; François Jouret; Nada Kanaan; Wim J.G. Oyen; Tatsuya Suwabe; Vicente E. Torres; Joost P.H. Drenth; on behalf of the Delphi collaborators Background: Cyst infection is one of the complications of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and polycystic liver disease...

... of mortality, cardiovascular/infection risk and tissue deposition) of high-dose intravenous iron supplementation with such high target levels of ferritin/TSAT has not been confirmed. Recently, there has been increase in the use of intravenous iron and average ferritin levels in dialysis patients in the United...

... 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. Dialysis Dialysis catheter-related bacteremia Infection A more effective approach for the prevention...

... of peritonitis occurred in 4 patients without clinical evidence of any abdominal aortic graft infection. Three patients developed intermittent claudication and 2 died of myocardial infarct. A similar peritonitis and cardiovascular complication rate was observed in a control group of age- and sex-matched CAPD...

... Analysis of 120 cases of femoral vein catheterization for ≥2 days for hemodialysis in 89 hospitalized patients was performed to determine the frequency of catheter-related complications including infection and venous thrombosis. The rate of clinically significant complications was < 3.5...

...R. Vanholder; R. Dell’Aquila; V. Jacobs; A. Dhondt; N. Veys; M.A. Waterloos; N. Van Landschoot; W. Van Biesen; S. Ringoir Infection is a frequent complication and the major cause of death among end-stage renal patients. Polymorphonuclear phagocytes (PMNL) are important in host defense mainly...

...Mitsuo Ohkawa; Isamu Motoi; Shoji Hirano; Akira Okasho; Haruo Hisazumi Biochemical analysis of renal cyst fluid was performed in 53 patients with simple renal cysts including 2 infected cases. The composition of noninfected cyst fluid tended to parallel that of serum. Additionally, the penetration...

.... Six months after a low-protein, low-phosphorus diet supplemented with essential amino acids and ketoanalogues (SD) was started, a significant improvement in CL production was observed. SD may be expected to decrease the susceptibility of uremic patients to bacterial infections. 8 07 1987 9...

...J. Nelson; D.J. Ormrod; T.E. Miller Infection often complicates renal failure and frequently causes death, but the association between renal failure, impaired immunity and infection has not been proved. A recent study showed that patients on dialysis did not show an expected leucocytic response...

..., quality or safety. The publisher 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. Peritoneal dialysis Peritonitis Uremia Peritoneal catheters Infection...

..., and evaluated for severe catheter-related complications necessitating catheter removal. Since the most common severe complication was catheter-related infection, we retrospectively examined whether parameters such as age, gender, duration of end-stage renal disease, delivered dose of dialysis, nutrition...

... reports demonstrated the association of some viral infections with peculiar clinical events in the general population, such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) with arterial damage and Parvovirus B19 (PV-B19) with hematologic abnormalities. We planned to look for this kind of viral imprinting in SLE, hypothesizing...