Blood pressure control with active ultrafiltration measures and without antihypertensives is essential for survival in hemodiafiltration and hemodialysis programs for patients with CKD: a prospective observational study.

Background: High blood pressure is a prevalent condition in patients with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis. Adequate control of high blood pressure is essential to reducing deaths in this group. The present study aimed to observe mortality prospectively in a group of patients in hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration programs in whom the use of antihypertensives was optimized with the point-of-care dry weight (POC-DW) technique.

Impaired Reconversion of Bone Marrow in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Patients with Chronic Renal Disease.

Background: Anemia is one of the main consequences of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), which causes a bone marrow response determined by Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Objective: The objective of this study was to identify Bone Marrow Reconversion (BMR) by nuclear magnetic resonance imaging in patients with CKD.

Methods: A descriptive study was carried in "José Carrasco Arteaga" Hospital, Cuenca-Ecuador.

Predictive equation of metastasis in patients with malignant ovarian epithelial tumors with the Ca-125 marker.

Background: Cancer antigen (CA) 125 (CA-125) is used in ovarian cancer detection and monitoring, whose serum level has a positive correlation with tumor stage. The aim of this study was to obtain a prediction metastasis equation in a group of patients with ovarian cancer based on Ca-125.

Methods: A 2-group comparative observational study was conducted at a single oncologic institution (SOLCA) in Cuenca-Ecuador.

Identification of impeding factors for dry weight achievement in end-stage renal disease after appropriate kidney graft function.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the factors that prevent dry weight achievement in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in renal replacement therapy through the change in their body weight after kidney transplant (KT) compared with 1 week before KT. The study included 188 ESRD patients of diverse etiology who received living kidney transplantation with normal immediate graft function, 62.2% were male, age 29 ± 11 years old.

Association of intradialytic hypotension and convective volume in hemodiafiltration: results from a retrospective cohort study.

Background: Hemodiafiltration (HDF), as a convective blood purification technique, has been associated with favorable outcomes improved phosphate control, removal of middle-molecules such as Beta2-microglobulin and the occurrence of intradialytic hypotension (IDH) as compared to diffusive techniques. The aim of this retrospective cohort study in dialysis patients receiving HDF in one urban dialysis facility in Mexico City was to investigate the occurrence of IDH during HDF treatments with varying convective volume prescriptions.

Methods: Subjects were stratified into equal groups of percentiles of convective volume prescription: Group 1 of 0 to 7.

Arterial line pressure control enhanced extracorporeal blood flow prescription in hemodialysis patients.

Background: In hemodialysis, extracorporeal blood flow (Qb) recommendation is 300-500 mL/min. To achieve the best Qb, we based our prescription on dynamic arterial line pressure (DALP).

Methods: This prospective study included 72 patients with catheter Group 1 (G1), 1877 treatments and 35 arterio-venous (AV) fistulae Group 2 (G2), 1868 treatments.