Long-term outcomes of living kidney donors: a single centre experience of 29 years.

Aim: Living kidney donation provides the best source of kidney graft. The mortality and morbidity rates are small but the long-term effects have not been studied. This is a report on our 29-year experience of living kidney donation.

Prospective study on dialysis patients after total parathyroidectomy without autoimplant.

Aim: Secondary hyperparathyroidism is common in chronic kidney disease. When medical treatment fails, subtotal or total parathyroidectomy with autoimplant is done but both are associated with a high recurrence rate. The third surgical strategy is total parathyroidectomy without autoimplant.

Solute removal index correlates more with equilibrated Kt/V than with single pool Kt/V in haemodialysis patients.

Background And Aims: Solute removal index (SRI) is an adequacy index that estimates haemodialysis dose based on urea removal in the spent dialysate. We examined the SRI, single pool Kt/V (spKt/V) and equilibrated Kt/V (eKt/V) in two groups of chronic haemodialysis patients; group A, 25 patients received haemodialysis twice weekly and group B, 11 patients received haemodialysis thrice weekly.

Method And Results: The Ing's partial dialysate collection method was used for spent dialysate collection.