Survival of patients on maintenance haemodialysis over a twenty-year period.

Patient survival is a key index of the overall adequacy of treatment in most chronic diseases. Analyses of survival of patients undergoing haemodialysis is very important, as it may offer clues and ideas for prolonging survival of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The aims of this study were to describe the characteristics of the patients on maintenance haemodialysis therapy over a period of 20 years, to determine the survival rate of these patients according to ages at the onset of haemodialysis, the primary renal diseases, and the cause of death, and to determine the survival rate at five, ten, fifteen and twenty years of haemodialysis treatment at our centre.

Successful treatment of soft tissue calcifications in uremia.

The appearance of soft tissue calcifications in patients with chronic renal failure has been recognised as one of the serious complications of uremia. An elevated serum calcium-phosphate product has almost invariably been detected, although the exact mechanisms of precipitation are still not fully understood. Among the factors responsible for triggering the precipitation process are: hyperphosphatemia, secondary hyperparathyroidism, hypercalcemia, treatment with vitamin D3, etc.

Survival of patients on chronic hemodialysis: single center experience.

Patient survival from our hemodialysis (HD) center over the past 11 years was analyzed. Four hundred four patients, 212 female and 192 male, were treated by chronic intermittent HD. Patients were offered standard acetate-cellulosic membranes of 1.