Clinical, Dialytic, and Laboratory Factors Associated With Poor Health-Related Quality of Life in Mexican Patients on Hemodialysis.

Background: End-stage renal disease and its treatment have a negative impact on the quality of life of patients.

Objective: To determine the clinical, dialytic, and laboratory factors associated with poor health-related quality of life in Mexican patients on hemodialysis.

Methods: A multicenter, cross-sectional study.

Transcultural adaptation and validation of the Mexican version of the kidney disease questionnaire KDQOL-SF36 version 1.3.

Purpose: To translate the Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form 36 (KDQOL-SF36) v1.3 questionnaire into the Spanish language, adapt it culturally, and validate it in the Mexican population.

Methods: The translation and transcultural adaptation were performed according to the recommendations of RAND Health (translation/pilot test/back-translation).

Screening for tuberculosis in the study of the living renal donor in a developing country.

Given the high prevalence of tuberculosis (Tb) in the Mexican population, a strict program to detect Tb in the potential donor is required. Chest x-ray, excretory urogram, urinalysis with microscopic exam of the sediment, urine cultures for M. tuberculosis, and tuberculin skin test (TST) with PPD-RT23 performed for evaluation of 222 living donors were reviewed.