Peritoneal dialysis is the better therapy choice for successful anti-hepatitis B vaccination.

Patients treated with renal replacement therapy (RRT) are considered to be at higher risk for infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV). Immunoprophylaxis is therefore deemed a standard of care. Active immunization in RRT patients leads to a lower incidence of protective titers of HBV antibodies (HBAbs) than the titers seen in healthy counterparts.

[Diagnosis and therapy of ethylene glycol poisoning--analysis of 20 patients].

The paper presents a retrospective analysis of 20 patients with acute ethylene glycol intoxication who were treated from 1972 to 2001 in the Dialysis Centre of the IVth Medical Clinic and from 1997 at the L. Pasteur Nephrological Clinic of the Faculty Hospital and Safarík Medical Faculty in Kosice. The ethylene glycol intoxication was manifested by neurological symptoms, extreme metabolic acidosis, acute toxic hepatitis and acute renal failure.

[Hemoperfusion in mushroom poisoning. Clinical analysis of 58 patients].

Fifty-eight patients with acute mushroom poisoning--Amanita phalloides were treated. Among them were 28 children and 2 adolescents. From all the patients mean age was 30.

[Use of hemoperfusion and cholinesterase in acute poisoning with organophosphate cholinesterase inhibitors--clinical analysis of 50 patients].

The authors present a retrospective analysis of 50 patients with acute intoxication with various organophosphate cholinesterase inhibitors who were treated in the course of 8 years by comprehensive conservative and extracorporeal elimination treatment. The mean age of the patients was 38 years. During therapy conservative treatment was used (gastric lavage, repeated lavage of the large intestine, forced diuresis, TMB-4 fusion through activated carbon, amberlite XAD-2 and XAD-4, haemodialysis).