Relationship Between Intimal Thickness on Ultrasonography and Long-Term Patency of Arteriovenous Fistula Restenosis After Cutting Balloon Versus High Pressure Balloon Angioplasty.

Background: To investigate the relationship between intimal thickness on ultrasonography and long-term patency of arteriovenous fistula restenosis after cutting balloon and high pressure balloon angioplasty.

Methods: We retrospectively compared the outcomes between cutting balloon angioplasty and high pressure balloon angioplasty in 149 patients with hemodialysis access restenosis. The relationship of intimal thickness and primary assisted patency of hemodialysis access on ultrasonography was investigated as the primary outcome, using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Cox proportional hazards model.

Comparison of double filtration plasmapheresis with immunoadsorption therapy in patients with anti-glomerular basement membrane nephritis.

Background: Double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) and (IA) are both used to clear antibody. However, the clinical efficacy and safety of DFPP in patients with anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease are unclear.

Methods: The 28 enrolled patients diagnosed serologically and pathologically with anti-GBM disease from 2003 to 2013 included 16 treated with DFPP and 12 with IA, with all patients administered immunosuppressive agents.

Challenge in pathologic diagnosis of Alport syndrome: evidence from correction of previous misdiagnosis.

Background: Pathologic studies play an important role in evaluating patients with Alport syndrome besides genotyping. Difficulties still exist in diagnosing Alport syndrome (AS), and misdiagnosis is a not-so-rare event, even in adult patient evaluated with renal biopsy.

Methods: We used nested case-control study to investigate 52 patients previously misdiagnosed and 52 patients initially diagnosed in the China Alport Syndrome Treatments and Outcomes Registry e-system.

[Effect of interleukin-10 level and human leukocyte antigen-DR expression as prognostic predictors in critically ill patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy].

Objective: To inquire into interleukin-10 (IL--10) level and monocyte expression of human leukocyte antigen--DR (HLA--DR) are predictors of infection and prognosis in critically ill patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).

Methods: A total of 43 critically ill patients undergoing continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH) were recruited from the intensive care unit (ICU). Anti--coagulated blood was obtained at 1 day before and 4 days after undergoing CVVH, and plasma IL--10 level (enzyme linked immunosorbent assay) and HLA--DR expression (flow cytometry) were determined.

Crush syndrome after the Wenchuan earthquake: new experience with regional citrate anticoagulation continuous veno-venous hemofiltration.

Purpose: Acute renal failure (ARF) related to crush syndrome is usually treated with hemodialysis. Continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH) has seldom been adopted in this situation due to the main drawback of continuous anticoagulation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA)-CVVH in two crush syndrome patients following the Wenchaun earthquake.

[Treatment experience of severe acute pancreatitis on 1033 cases.].

Objective: To summary the treatment experience of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP).

Methods: From January 1997 to March 2009, a total of 1033 patients suffered SAP were admitted with a mean APACHE II score 12.0 +/- 4.

Amelioration of hemodynamics and oxygen metabolism by continuous venovenous hemofiltration in experimental porcine pancreatitis.

Aim: To investigate the potential role of continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH) in hemodynamics and oxygen metabolism in pigs with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP).

Methods: SAP model was produced by intraductal injection of sodium taurocholate (4%, 1 mL/kg body weight (BW)) and trypsin (2 U/kg BW). Animals were allocated either to untreated controls as group 1 or to one of two treatment groups as group 2 receiving a low-volume CVVH (20 mL/(kg.

[Continuous veno-venous hemofiltration in treatment of acute severe hyponatremia: a report of 6 cases].

Objective: To investigate the effect of continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH) in the treatment of acute severe hyponatremia.

Methods: Six patients with acute severe hyponatremia were studied, including 5 males and 1 female, aged 48.5 (25 - 61) years.