Evaluation the role of the nephrology team in the specific vascular access outpatient clinic. What can we contribute new?

Background And Objectives: The key points of a monographic vascular access (VA) consultation are an adequate preoperative assessment, as well as a correct management and optimization of waiting lists. Our main objective of present study was to evaluate the degree of exploratory-dependent concordance in outpatient clinics regarding implanted VA, between nephrology and vascular surgery.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed VA created or surgically repaired between 2021 and 2022.

A Study on the Safety and Efficacy of an Innovative Hydrophilic Dialysis Membrane.

The dialysis membrane based on a hydrophilic polymer (Hydrolink NV) was designed to enhance the movement of adsorbed water at the blood-membrane interface, aiming to achieve antithrombogenic and antifouling effects. This study aimed to assess the performance and albumin loss of the Hydrolink NV dialyzer in hemodialysis (HD) and post-dilution hemodiafiltration (HDF) with different infusion flows (Qis) and compare it with the hydrophilic FX CorAL dialyzer in post-dilution HDF. A prospective study was carried out in 20 patients.

An Observational Study of the First 100 Patients Undergoing Nocturnal Every-Other-Day Online Hemodiafiltration: Clinical Outcomes and Patient and Technique Survival.

: High-volume online hemodiafiltration (OL-HDF) has proven to be the most efficient dialysis modality and to offer better clinical outcomes in patients on hemodialysis. Longer and more frequent dialysis sessions have demonstrated clinical and survival benefits. : A single-center observational study of the first one hundred patients on nocturnal every-other-day OL-HDF was conducted with the aim of reporting the experience with this treatment schedule and evaluating analytical and clinical outcomes as well as the patient and technique survival.

The Choice of Anti-Inflammatory Influences the Elimination of Protein-Bound Uremic Toxins.

Pain is a frequent and disturbing symptom among hemodialysis patients. Protein-bound uremic toxins (PBUTs) are related to cardiovascular and overall mortality, and they are difficult to remove with current hemodialysis treatments. The PBUT displacers, such as furosemide, tryptophan, or ibuprofen, may be promising new strategies for improving their clearance.

Correlation of plasmatic sodium determined by the laboratory and that determined by the dialysis machine.

Introduction: Changes in plasma sodium concentration (Na, expressed in mEq/L) are common in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Hemodialysis monitors can estimate Na by using an internal algorithm based on ion dialysance measurements. The present study studies the accuracy of the correlation between the Na estimated by the dialysis monitor and that measured by the biochemistry laboratory at our center.