Predictive value of echocardiography and its relation to Kt/V and anthropometric parameters in hemodialysis patients.

Background: In order to evaluate the predictive value of echocardiograph parameters for mortality of hemodialysis patients and their relation to Kt/V and anthropometry, a prospective, single center study was analyzed post-hoc.

Methods: This analysis encompassed 106 patients on maintenance hemodialysis monitored for 108 months from 1996 to 2004. spKt/V was calculated using the Daugirdas formula.

Inflammatory markers as mortality predictors in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients.

Background/aim: Besides peritonitis, the most common complication, indicators of chronic inflammation are also present in patients treated by peritoneal dialysis. The aim of this study was to analyze the predictive value of inflammatory parameters on mortality of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients.

Methods: Eighty-seven patients (57 males), aged from 30 to 85 [62.

A comparison of markers of myocardial injury and their relation to nutritional parameters in hemodialysis patients.

Background: Serum cardiac troponin T (cTnT) is a valuable marker of ischemic heart disease (IHD) and left ventricular hypertrophy, as well as a mortality predictor in hemodialysis populations. We compared the value of cTnT, creatinine kinase (CK)-MB mass and myoglobin as mortality predictors in our hemodialysis patients and evaluated their relation to nutritional status.

Methods: A total of 118 hemodialysis patients were prospectively studied from January 2004 to April 2013.

Comparison of two diverse measurement methods by graphical agreement.

Biological processes are complex, and several methods are often used to measure them. However, different methods could determine diverse parts of a single biological process. To date, there are no widely accepted and convenient methods for comparison between the results, so we consider graphical analysis with the ability to demonstrate the pattern of distribution of findings from one method across another.

Could the level of serum albumin be a method for assessing malnutrition in hemodialysis patients?

Background: Traditionally, serum albumin concentration has been used for assessing the nutrition status of hemodialysis patients despite evidence that the level is also affected by inflammation and many other underlying disorders frequently present in these individuals. The authors evaluated albumin as a nutrition parameter, comparing it with more specific anthropometric parameters.

Methods: The study included a cohort of 271 patients.

Polyneuropathy in diabetic and nondiabetic patients on CAPD: is there an association with HRQOL?

Background: It is well known that patients with uremia, as well as patients with diabetes mellitus, develop polyneuropathy.

Objectives: The signs of polyneuropathy in diabetic and nondiabetic patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and their relation with age, duration of dialysis, biochemical parameters, dialysis adequacy, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) were analyzed in the present study.

Patients And Methods: 65 CAPD patients (37 men, age 29-85 years, duration on dialysis 3 months to 14 years) were divided into two groups: group 1 was comprised of 20 diabetic patients (mean age 50.