Background: Renal cancer accounts for 3% of adult malignancies; renal cell carcinoma (RCC) represents 80% of all renal cancers, and is characterized by late recurrences. Recurrences after kidney transplantation are associated with a high mortality rate. We aimed to determine if recurrences are linked to tumor characteristics and to delays between diagnosis and transplantation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeritoneal dialysis patients are frequently transferred from peritoneal dialysis to haemodialysis. In contrary transfer from chronic haemodialysis to peritoneal dialysis is rare. The aim of this study is to describe the main characteristics and the outcome of the dialysis patients transferred from haemodialysis to peritoneal dialysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a case of a hemodialysed patient who developed a cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae infection. This infection was only localised on the left upper limb, downstream from the arteriovenous fistula. M.
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