Cross-Sectional Assessment of Achievement of Therapeutic Goals in a Canadian Multidisciplinary Clinic for Patients With Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease.

Background: The implementation of advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) multidisciplinary clinics has now demonstrated their effectiveness in delaying and even avoiding dialysis for patients with CKD. However, very little has been documented on the management and achievement of targets for a number of parameters in this context.

Objective: Our goal was to assess our multidisciplinary clinic therapy performance in relation to the targets for hypertension, anemia, and calcium phosphate assessment.

CAPD in dammam central hospital, saudi arabia: a five-year experience.

Thirty-one patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) were offered continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) at the Dammam Central Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia over a period of five years. The group included 21 women and 10 men with a mean age of 41.3 +/- 17.

Hyperuricemia and gout in renal transplant recipients.

Hyperuricemia, unlike clinical gout, is extremely common in renal transplant patients. The high prevalence of hyperuricemia is related to prolonged exposure to cyclosporine rather than to its dose or serum concentration. Serum creatinine levels do not show significant correlation with hyperuricemia, behaving more like a surrogate marker for cyclosporine dose and trough level.

Classic heat stroke in a case of simple hypohydrosis with "bad prognostic indicators" but a remarkable recovery.

Heat stroke occurs in the desert area of Saudi Arabia quite frequently and manifest in different patterns including coagulopathy. Frequently encountered complications include renal or hepatic failure, rhabdomyolysis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and seizure. Not all of these complications usually occur in the same patient, in case it occurs the mortality reported is significantly high.