Cardiac arrhythmia during early-week and mid-week dialysis in hemodialysis patients.

Data on cardiac arrhythmia and electrolyte changes during the dialysis cycle have been limited. Fifty-two hemodialysis (HD) patients underwent 48-h Holter monitoring during early-week and mid-week HD sessions. Pre-HD and post-HD blood samples were collected in both HD sessions.

Prevalence and Factors Associated with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients on Dialysis.

Background: Heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Previous studies reported various factors associated with left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) in patients with ESRD.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence and factors associated with LVSD in patients with ESRD on dialysis.

Glomerular macrophage is an indicator of early treatment response in diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis.

Background: Patients with diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis (class IV) who responded to treatment within 6 months had better renal outcome than those who did not. Glomerular macrophage is known to be associated with poor renal outcome in glomerular diseases.

Objective: To evaluate association between glomerular macrophage number and early treatment response in lupus nephritis class IV patients.

Late onset lupus nephritis: analysis of clinical manifestations and renal pathological features in Siriraj Hospital.

Background: Lupus nephritis (LN) is uncommon after the age of 50 years and studies of elderly patients with LN are rare. The authors conducted the current study to determine the clinical manifestations, pathological features and prognosis of 30 Thai patients with late onset LN in Siriraj hospital in Bangkok from 1989 to 2006.

Material And Method: Thirty LN patients with a disease onset beyond the age of 50 years from 1989 to 2006 were enrolled in this retrospective study.