[Hereditary renal hypouricemia in a Caucasian patient: a case report and review of the literature].

Hereditary renal hypouricemia is characterized by a decreased serum uric acid, a uric acid fractional excretion above normal and the absence of another cause of hyperuricosuric hypouricemia. This pathology, generally caused by a mutation of urate renal transporter URAT1, is relatively common in Asia, but occurs very infrequently in Caucasian populations. The disease's association with exercise-induced acute renal failure is well known.

Predictors and outcome of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) calls in a large haemodialysis unit over a seven-year period.

Background: Cardiac mortality is the leading cause of death in dialysis patients, with cardiac arrests being most frequent. Our purpose was to determine the epidemiology, predictors and outcomes of calls for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) occurring in our haemodialysis unit.

Methods: We reviewed retrospectively all calls for CPR occurring in our unit between August 1997 and December 2004 and compared data to a cohort of chronic haemodialysis patients from our unit.

Hemodialysis catheter tip embolization in the right pulmonary vasculature: report of a cardiac arrest.

A 44 year old woman on hemodialysis presented a sudden cardiorespiratory arrest at the end of an otherwise uneventful dialysis session. It occurred while disconnecting the circuit from her tunneled catheter. She was reanimated and then transferred to the intensive care unit; the endotracheal intubation had been difficult, and she had been severely hypoxic.