Effects of sleep disordered breathing on functional capacity and quality of life in chronic kidney disease Egyptian patients.

Purpose: We assessed the prevalence of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and investigated its effects on the muscle functional capacity and quality of life (QoL) among chronic kidney disease (CKD) Egyptian patients, either maintained or not maintained on hemodialysis (HD).

Methods: The study population comprised 100 CKD patients who were divided into patients maintained on HD (n = 60; M/F = 28:32) and patients not maintained on HD (n = 40; M/F = 24:16). Patients were observed overnight using the pulse-oximetry technique and further subdivided into patients with SDB and patients without SDB, according to their calculated oxygen desaturation index (cutoff 5).

Bone densitometric analysis in egyptian hemodialysis patients.

End-stage renal failure (ESRF) is the ultimate consequence of chronic renal failure, and in such cases dialysis is generally required. Almost all dialysed patients have abnormal bone histology and lower values of glomerular filtration rate have been associated with lower bone mineral density (BMD) at all sites. The objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of hemodialysis (HD) on body-composition (BC), specially segmental and total BMD in Egyptian ESRF patients.