Comparative Analysis of Vascular Calcification Risk Factors in Pre-Hemodialysis and Prevalent Hemodialysis Adult Patients: Insights into Calcification Biomarker Associations and Implications for Intervention Strategies in Chronic Kidney Disease.

This retrospective study aimed to compare risk factors for vascular calcification (VC) between pre-hemodialysis (HD) and prevalent HD adult patients while investigating associations with calcification biomarkers. Baseline data from 30 pre-HD and 85 HD patients were analyzed, including iPTH, vitamin D, FGF 23, fetuin-A, sclerostin, and VC scores (Adragao method). Prevalence of VC was similar in both groups, but HD patients had more frequent VC scores ≥ 6.

Differences in Risk Factors and Prevalence of Vascular Calcification between Pre-Dialysis and Hemodialysis Balkan Nephropathy Patients.

: The aim of this study was to compare the risk factors and prevalence of vascular calcification (VC) in pre-dialysis and hemodialysis (HD) patients with Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) or other kidney diseases (non-BEN). : The study involved 115 patients, 32 pre-dialysis and 83 HD patients, separated into groups of BEN and non-BEN patients. In addition to interviews, objective examinations and laboratory analyses, VC was assessed using Adragao score.

Prevalence and risk factors of vascular calcification in pre-dialysis patients with Balkan endemic nephropathy.

Introduction: Vascular calcifications (VC) are common in patients with chronic kidney disease and present one of manifestations of mineral and bone disorders in these patients.

Objective: The aim of this pilot study was to examine the prevalence and risk factors of VC in pre-dialysis patients with Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) and other kidney diseases.

Methods: The study involved 32 pre-dialysis patients, 15 with BEN and 17 with other kidney diseases.

Symptomatic isolated thoracic splenosis 11 years after abdominal trauma – Case report.

Introduction: Thoracic splenosis is defined as the autotransplantation of splenic tissue into thorax. It occurs due to splenic rupture in association with a diaphragmatic tear on the left side after a traumatic event. It is a rare disease that most commonly remains undiscovered as it is usually asymptomatic.

Comprehensive geriatric assessment: comparison of elderly hemodialysis patients and primary care patients.

Backgrounds: The quality of life and survival of elderly depend not only on their age but on many social and health factors. In the present study, comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) was made in elderly patients on regular hemodialysis (HD) and those without chronic kidney disease recruited in primary health care in order to compare their sociodemographic characteristics, physical health, functional ability and social support.

Method: The 106 HD patients and 300 primary care patients aged 70 years and more were studied.

The pharmacokinetics of recombinant human erythropoietin in Balkan endemic nephropathy patients.

Background: Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) hemodialysis patients require a higher dose of recombinant human erythropoietin for maintaining target hemoglobin level than patients with other kidney diseases.

Objectives: Comparison of the pharmacokinetics of beta-erythropoietin given subcutaneously to hemodialysis patients with BEN or other kidney diseases (non-BEN).

Methods: Recombinant human erythropoietin (75 U/kg) was administered subcutaneously to 10 BEN and 14 non-BEN hemodialysis patients.

[Different response to human recombinant erythropoietin in patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment].

Introduction: Treatment with recombinant human erythropoietin enabled the correction of anemia in the patients on regular hemodialysis but large individual differences in the dose required to achieve the target hemoglobin level were observed. In this study the erythropoietin resistance index was calculated in patients on hemodialysis in order to examine variations in the response to erythropoietin and factors that influence it.

Material And Methods: The study included 48 patients (25 males) of mean age 67.

[Balkan endemic nephropathy in Bosnia and Herzegovina--renal registry report].

Introduction: Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (BEN) is still dominant cause of the end stage renal disease (ESRD) in North-Eastern Bosnia. The aim of this paper was to analyze the patients with BEN diagnosis on chronic dialysis treatment in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Methods: In this study we used data from individual questionnaires which we collected for Renal Registry.