A review of the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease in Pakistan: A global and regional perspective.

Both the incidence and prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are rising with immense pace worldwide. People living in developing countries are speculated to suffer the consequences due to economic deprivation and high cost of treatment. The prevalence of CKD is highly variable in different parts of the world, due to various environmental, ethnic, socioeconomical, and rural-urban differences.

Reasons for Removal of Non-Tunneled Double Lumen Catheters in Incident Dialysis Patients.

Objective: To evaluate the reasons of removal of non-tunneled double lumen catheters (NTDLC) in incident hemodialysis (HD) patients in a tertiary renal care hospital.

Study Design: Observational retrospective study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Nephrology, The Kidney Centre Postgraduate Training Institute (TKC PGTI), Karachi, from June 2015 to May 2016.

Analysis of renal diseases detected in renal biopsies of adult patients: A single-center experience.

Renal biopsy is crucial while evaluating for the diagnosis of glomerular, vascular, tubulointerstitial, and genetic diseases. It gives vital information which helps in estimating the disease prognosis, progression, and management. This is the retrospective analysis of all adult patients aged above 18 years, who underwent percutaneous renal biopsy at The Kidney Center Post Graduate Training Institute, Karachi, over a duration of 18 years, i.

Clinical variables differentiating diabetic from nondiabetic kidney disease in patients with diabetes: A single-center study.

Patients with diabetes may have kidney diseases other than the diabetic kidney disease. Kidney biopsy is the investigation of choice when this is suspected. This retrospective analysis included all patients known to have diabetes mellitus (DM) and who had a kidney biopsy at our center between 1998 and 2014.

Frequency of kidney diseases and clinical indications of pediatric renal biopsy: A single center experience.

Kidney biopsy occupies a fundamental position in the management of kidney diseases. There are very few renal pathology studies available in the literature from developing world. This study scrutinized the frequency and clinicopathological relationship of kidney biopsies done at the kidney center from 1997 to 2013 amongst pediatric patients.