Urothelial cancer in patients with Endemic Balkan Nephropathy (EN) after renal transplantation.

Goal: Analysis of the incidence of urothelial cancer and outcome of treatment in patients with Endemic Balkan Nephropathy (EN) after renal transplantation.

Methods: From January 1985 until October 2006, 550 kidney transplantations (389 cadaveric) and 5 combined kidney and pancreas transplantations were performed in University Hospital Center Rijeka. In only 6 (1.

Cardiovascular risk factors and diseases strongly predict hemodialysis treatment outcome in maintenance hemodialysis patients.

Aim: To identify independent predictors of hemodialysis treatment outcome among major cardiovascular risk factors and pre-existent cardiovascular diseases in maintenance hemodialysis patients with the end-stage renal disease.

Methods: A total of 144 prevalent patients on maintenance hemodialysis at Rijeka University Hospital between 1998 and 2003 were included in the prospective clinical study. Pre-existent cardiovascular risk factors and diseases were identified, as well as their relation to hemodialysis treatment outcome.

Assessment of hemodialysis adequacy by ionic dialysance: comparison to standard method of urea removal.

Background: The hemodialysis adequacy is one of the most important issues influencing the survival of patients on maintenance hemodialysis (HD). Assessment of measuring the delivered dialysis dose using clearance x time/volume (Kt/V) index requires multiple blood sampling. New methods for assessment of dialysis dose based on ionic dialysance (ID) have been suggested.

[Development of peritoneal dialysis at Rijeka Clinical Hospital Center].

The dialysis population is steadily rising as a consequence of the growing incidence of terminal renal failure patients and lack of organs for transplantation. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) has become an established form of renal replacement therapy. The development of new methods, techniques, PD fluids and catheters has significantly lowered the incidence of complications and increased the use of PD throughout the world.

[Value of urinary sediment cytology in evaluation of acute tubular necrosis after kidney transplantation].

Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the clinical value of urinary sediment cytology (USC) by use of phase-contrast microscopy in the evaluation of acute tubular necrosis (ATN) during the early period after kidney transplantation. The study was performed at the Cytology Laboratory, Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka, Croatia.

Patients And Methods: Patients included 141 kidney recipients, 99 male and 42 female, mean age 40 +/- 13 (range 8-72) years, who had received kidney allograft during the period of ten years, and who were treated at the University Department of Internal Medicine, Rijeka Clinical Hospital Center.