Survival and mortality analysis in two nephrology centers: A prospective observational study.

Background: The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) requiring dialysis therapy is increasing globally. Survival and mortality data of these patients in Germany are fragmentary since the nationwide registry was terminated in 2006.

Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze the survival, causes of death, and co-morbidities of dialysis patients in a German population cohort as well as to assess the factors influencing mortality in these patients.

Sonographic Venous Velocity Index Identifies Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Severe Diastolic Dysfunction.

Objective: Diagnosing cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) continues to remain challenging in outpatient practice. In this study, we investigate whether a newly developed venous velocity ultrasound index (VVI) can differentiate between patients with CRS and patients with CKD of other cause or normal renal function (NRF).

Methods: Patients with CRS (n 30), CKD (n=30), and NRF (n=30) were included in the study.

Correction: Sonographic Venous Velocity Index Identifies Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Severe Diastolic Dysfunction.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1055/a-0684-9483.].

[Wasp sting, adrenaline injection and acute thoracic pain: an un usual case of stress-induced (tako-tsubo) cardiomyopathy].

Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy is characterized by a transient and reversible left ventricular dysfunction and shows clinical similarities with the acute coronary syndrome. Here, the authors report and discuss a case of a patient with tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy triggered by adrenaline injection after a wasp sting.