Objectives: The aims of the study were to determine the percentage of patients on regular hemodialysis (HD) in Serbia failing to meet KDOQI guidelines targets and find out factors associated with the risk of time to death and the association between guidelines adherence and patient outcome.
Methods: A cohort of 2153 patients on regular HD in 24 centers (55.7% of overall HD population) in Serbia were followed from January 2010 to December 2012.
Srp Arh Celok Lek
January 2013
Introduction: Treating severe acute glyphosate-surfactant poisoning requires intensive therapy including dialysis. Cases of hemoperfusion and hemodialysis use in renal failure induced by herbicide ingestion have been reported in the current medical literature. We present a case report of successful patient treatment with continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration in acute glyphosate-surfactant poisoning.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aim: In patients with end-stage renal disease, treatment with erythropoietin lowers cardiovascular morbidity, improves quality of life and patient survival. The aim of this study was to determine the difference in survival of hemodialysis patients treated with recombinant human beta erythropoietin and patients without this treatment, and to determine the influence of hemoglobin level and erythropoietin dose on the survival of these patients.
Method: The study included 291 patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis, 122 were on erythropoietin therapy, 169 patients formed control group.
Int J Artif Organs
September 2002
Maintenance hemodialysis (HD) in Yugoslavia started in the sixties and followed the dialysis trends in the Western Europe. However, in the last decade the development of renal replacement therapy (RRT) slowed down. In this report the epidemiology of ESRD from 1997-1999 and the survey of the status of HD treatment in Yugoslavia in 1999 are presented.
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