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Clinical outcomes and mortality in elderly peritoneal dialysis patients
Clinics, 2015 OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the clinical outcomes and identify the predictors of mortality in elderly patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study including all incident peritoneal dialysis cases in patients ≥65 years ...
Tamer Sakacı +12 more
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Antioxidants, 2023 Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a current replacement therapy for end-stage kidney diseases (ESKDs). However, long-term exposure to PD fluids may lead to damage of the peritoneal membrane (PM) through mechanisms involving the activation of the inflammatory ...
Vanessa Marchant +13 more
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European Radiology Experimental, 2022 The detection of peritoneal carcinomatosis in patients with ovarian cancer is crucial to establish the correct therapeutic planning (debulking surgery versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy).
Giada Zorzetto +9 more
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Peritoneal Dialysis in Neonates: A Five-Year Experience [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Neonatology, 2020 Background: Peritoneal dialysis is an applicable method for children and even neonates. Moreover, it allows the quiet excretion of fluid and soluble substances without hemodynamic instability.
Maliheh Kadivar +4 more
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Role of histamine-mediated macrophage differentiation in clearance of metastatic bacterial infection
Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 Macrophages are highly heterogeneous immune cells with a role in maintaining tissue homeostasis, especially in activating the defense response to bacterial infection.
Kwang H. Kim +8 more
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The molecular biology of peritoneal metastatic disease
EMBO Molecular Medicine, 2023 Abstract Peritoneal metastases are a common form of tumor cell dissemination in gastrointestinal malignancies. Peritoneal metastatic disease (PMD) is associated with severe morbidity and resistance to currently employed therapies.
Bootsma, Sanne +2 more
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Endometriotic disease: the role of peritoneal fluid [PDF]
Human Reproduction Update, 1998 Peritoneal fluid and the intraovarian milieu are a specific microenvironment. Peritoneal fluid originates mainly as an ovarian exudation product caused by increased vascular permeability, with cyclic variation in volume and steroid hormones which are always higher than in plasma.
P R, Koninckx, S H, Kennedy, D H, Barlow
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Evaluation of Magnesium Level and Associated Factors in Patients under Peritoneal Dialysis
مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2020 Background: Given the high prevalence of chronic renal failure worldwide, and the fact that kidneys are the major means of magnesium excretion from the body, it is speculated that the incidence risk of magnesium balance disorder would be high in patients
Mojgan Mortazavi +4 more
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Copaiba oil effect under different pathways in mice subjected to sepsis [PDF]
Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira, 2014 PURPOSE: To evaluate the effects of copaiba oil administered by different routes on survival of mices subjected to cecal ligation and puncture.METHODS:Thirty two mice were distributed into four study groups (N=8): Sham group: normal standard animals ...
Nara Macedo Botelho +5 more
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Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2010 The aim of this study was to analyze the importance of the peritoneal equilibration test (PET) in evaluation of the peritoneal membrane tranport status in patients treated with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD).
Snežana Unčanin +5 more
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