Publications by authors named "J M Gil-Cunquero"

Objective: There is evidence of cognitive impairment in patients with end-stage renal disease in hemodialysis (ESRD-HD). However, few studies have exhaustively analyzed executive functions (EFs) in this population, especially considering the influence of a wide range of clinical variables. This study analyzes performance in different EF components in ESRD-HD patients compared to a group of healthy controls (HCs), in addition to the acute effects of HD and the associations of cognitive performance with clinical variables.

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Objective: To analyse the presence of VC at the start of dialysis and its relationship with events and/or death from cardiovascular causes in the course of follow-up.

Methods: In the study, we included patients who started dialysis between November 2003 and September 2007. In the first month of treatment, we assessed the presence of VC by Doppler echocardiography, along with demographic factors and risk factors for cardiovascular disease, coronary artery disease, stroke, atrial fibrillation (AF), and cardiac dimensional and functional electrocardiographic and echocardiographic parameters.

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Background: Although the estimated frequency of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients on dialysis is very high, there is considerable variation in the studies published to date regarding the rate of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in these patients.

Objective: To establish the incidence of AMI and to analyse the characteristics and consequences of this entity on the clinical progression of incident dialysis patients.

Methods: We recorded AMI in the patients treated in our dialysis unit between 01/01/1999 and 31/12/07.

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The overall incidence of nephrolithiasis-related acute and chronic renal failure is poorly known and surely underestimated. However, obstructive nephropathy represents a potentially curable form of kidney disease that often requires for managing an instrumentation of urinary tract. Rasburicase is an enzyme that transforms uric acid to allantoin, a compound more water soluble that will be excreted by the kidney more easily.

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