Publications by authors named "Amin Khatib"
Sepsis is one of the leading causes of hospitalization and death among hemodialysis patients. Infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are common among these patients, but empiric broad-spectrum coverage for every septic patient is associated with unfavorable outcomes. A retrospective case-control study was conducted at Shamir Medical Center, Israel (July 2016-April 2020), to determine predictors of MDRO infections among septic (per SEPSIS-3) ambulatory adult hemodialysis patients with permanent dialysis access (i.
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- The study investigates the impact of nonobese sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity (SO) on prognosis in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients, revealing that SO may indicate better nutritional status and life expectancy compared to nonobese sarcopenic individuals.
- Researchers followed 261 MHD patients over several years, using various criteria to diagnose sarcopenia and measuring health outcomes, including morbidity and mortality rates, alongside factors like body composition and quality of life.
- Findings suggest that while patients with SO had improved health markers and a lower risk of death and cardiovascular issues, these advantages diminished when fat mass was factored into the analysis.
Despite experimental evidence of beneficial metabolic, antiatherosclerotic and antiinflammatory effects of the 30 kDa adipokine, adiponectin, maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients with high adiponectin blood levels have paradoxically high mortality rates. We aimed to examine the direction of the associations between adiponectin and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality as well as with markers of oxidative stress, inflammation and nutrition in MHD patients with varying degrees of comorbidities. A cohort of 261 MHD patients (mean age 68.
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