The relationship between oral diseases and infectious complications in patients under dialysis.

Objectives: Association was investigated between oral health before dialysis and the incidence of systemic infections during dialysis. We hypothesized that low-grade systemic inflammation caused by poor oral health associates with infectious episodes in patients on dialysis, despite earlier eradication of oral infection foci.

Subjects And Methods: A total of 117 patients (46 with peritoneal and 71 with hemodialysis) were examined and treated at predialysis stage and followed up during dialysis.

One- and three-year outcomes in patients treated with intermittent hemodialysis for acute kidney injury: prospective observational multicenter post-hoc FINNAKI study.

Background: Studies reporting renal and overall survival after acute kidney injury (AKI) treated exclusively with intermittent modalities of renal replacement therapy (IRRT) are rare. This study focused on outcomes of AKI patients treated with IRRT both in intensive care units (ICUs) and non-ICU dialysis units.

Methods: This prospective observational study was carried on during a 5-month period in 17 ICUs and 17 non-ICUs.