Cognitive impairment, endothelial biomarkers and mortality in maintenance haemodialysis patients: a prospective cohort study.

Background: Haemodialysis (HD) patients have a high prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors as well as cognitive impairment. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the interrelationship between cognitive impairment, endothelium-related biomarkers and cardiovascular/non-cardiovascular mortality.

Methods: A total of 216 outpatients were recruited from three centres in a dialysis network in Brazil between June 2016 and June 2019.

Intraoperative Surgical Portosystemic Shunt in Liver Transplantation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

BACKGROUND Expanded clinical and surgical techniques in liver transplantation can markedly improve patient and graft survival. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of intraoperative portocaval shunts in liver transplantation. MATERIAL AND METHODS Searches were conducted in Cochrane, MEDLINE, and EMBASE databases, and updated in January 2018.