The 25-hydroxyvitamin D level in Kidney Transplant Recipients and Its Association With Renal Function and Other Cardio-Metabolic Risk Markers.

Background: Vitamin D is the main hormone that plays a critical role in controlling mineral homeostasis. Transplant recipients frequently have altered levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH] D) and 1, 25-hydroxyvitamin (1, 25[OH] D).

Objectives: To explore the status of vitamin D level in renal allograft recipients and its association with renal function and cardio-metabolic risk markers.

Quality of Life Is Improved in Renal Transplant Recipients Versus That Shown in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease With or Without Dialysis.

Objectives: Health-related quality of life is increasingly used as an important measurement of treatment outcome. Here, quality of life parameters in renal transplant recipients were evaluated and compared with patients with chronic kidney disease on maintenance hemodialysis and with those who were not on dialysis.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study included patients seen at a number of tertiary renal care hospitals (there were 15 renal transplant recipients, 20 patients on maintenance hemodialysis, and 28 patients with chronic kidney disease not on dialysis).

Experience Managing Adult Patients on Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis in Bangladesh.

Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) is becoming increasingly known to the patients of Bangladesh, and patient numbers are increasing. Here, we report our experience and clinical outcomes in this field.Our analysis included all CAPD patients managed in a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh between 2003 and 2015.

Biochemical and imaging alterations of renal bone disease in newly detected predialysis and on maintenance dialysis patients.

Skeletal involvement in chronic kidney disease manifests long before the initiation of dialysis. This study aimed at identifying the extent of renal bone disease among predialysis and on maintenance dialysis patients. Thirty-two patients (Group 1) on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) for a variable period of time were compared with 20 newly detected irregularly treated advanced renal failure (immediately predialysis), patients (Group 2) for their clinical, biochemical and imaging features.