Prognostic value of cardiac markers in ESRD: Chronic Hemodialysis and New Cardiac Markers Evaluation (CHANCE) study.

Background: Cardiac disease is the main cause of mortality in long-term hemodialysis patients. Cardiac troponins (cTn) have been proposed to be markers of cardiac damage, but their value is still debated in hemodialysis patients. The aim of this prospective study is to assess the prognostic value of biochemical cardiac markers in long-term hemodialysis patients.

Factors associated with increased serum levels of cardiac troponins T and I in chronic haemodialysis patients: Chronic Haemodialysis And New Cardiac Markers Evaluation (CHANCE) study.

Background: Serum concentrations of the cardiac troponins (cTn) T and I, specific markers of myocardial injury, are frequently elevated in haemodialysis patients. The clinical relevance of this is unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate factors associated with increased serum levels of cTn in haemodialysis patients.

Hemophagocytic histiocytosis (HH) in renal transplant recipients under ciclosporin therapy: report of the first two cases.

Hematophagocytic histiocytosis is a clinicopathologic syndrome associating fever, liver dysfunction, blood cytopenia and coagulation abnormalities with hematophagocytosis in bone marrow and lymphoïd organs. This syndrome is found in immunocompromized patients and is triggered by infection. We describe herein the first 2 cases of HH in renal transplant recipients treated with ciclosporin.

Vascular complications in the adult kidney transplant recipient.

Vascular complications of renal transplantation occurred in 15% of the cases. They are thrombotic infarct, arterial stenosis, arterio-venous fistula, and chronic arterial diseases. From 900 renal transplantations performed, only 120 (made since 1989) were studied with color flow Doppler (CFD).