A single weekly Kt/Vurea target for peritoneal dialysis patients does not provide an equal dialysis dose for all [PDF]
Copyright © 2016 International Society of Nephrology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Dialysis adequacy is traditionally based on urea clearance, adjusted for total body volume (Kt/Vurea), and clinical guidelines recommend a Kt/Vurea ...
Davenport, Andrew +4 more
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Acute changes in peritoneal morphology and transport properties with infectious peritonitis and mechanical injury [PDF]
Acute changes in peritoneal morphology and transport properties with infectious peritonitis and mechanical injury. Peritoneal clearance studies were performed in rats undergoing acute peritoneal dialysis.
Christian Verger +36 more
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Pets are ‘Risky Business’ for Patients undergoing Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
The authors report the first case in Manitoba of a patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis who experienced three successive infections with Pasteurella multocida and Capnocytophaga species over an eight-month period.
Yahya Salim Yahya Al-Fifi +3 more
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Infections associated with peritoneal dialysis (infection of the catheter, tunnel infection and peritonitis) are the most common complications of this method.
M. Malasaiev, I. Dudar, A. Shymova
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Curvularia lunata, a rare fungal peritonitis in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD); a rare case report [PDF]
Peritonitis is an inflammation of the peritoneum that occurs in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) treated by peritoneal dialysis. Fungal peritonitis is a dreaded complication of peritoneal dialysis.
Subramanyam Haritha +3 more
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Objective: We would like to provide an option of minimal invasive surgical intervention for a patient with end-stage renal disease undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, who was at the advanced-stage pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and who ...
Yi-Hung Sun, Wei-Chih Kan, Ming-Ping Wu
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Bowel Perforation During Catheter Removal After the Sixth Month of Peritoneal Dialysis Termination
Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) is widely used in the treatment of end stage renal failure patients. Delayed injury to the bowel is an uncommon complication of CAPD catheter.
Ali Borazan +4 more
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Narrative Review of Incremental Hemodialysis. [PDF]
The prescription of hemodialysis (HD) in patients with incident end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is fundamentally empirical. The abrupt transition from nondialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD) to thrice-weekly in-center HD of much the same dialysis ...
Garneata, Liliana +3 more
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Home haemodialysis : trends in technology [PDF]
Self management and home-based dialysis therapies offer the prospect of improved patient experience and outcomes. To allow more patients to realize these benefits requires changes in technology which focus on maximizing the ease and minimizing the ...
Farrington, Ken, Greenwood, Roger
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Serum leptin level has a positive correlation with BMI and creatinine clearance in CAPD patients [PDF]
Objective: In a cross sectional study, 75 patients (42 males and 33 females) on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) were enrolled from October 2007 to February 2008. Serum levels of leptin, albumin, triglyceride, dialysis adequacy (total KTN)
Momeni, Ali. +4 more
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