Technique of Peritoneal Catheter Placement under Fluroscopic Guidance by Ahmed Kamel Abdel-Aal, Santhosh Gaddikeri, Souheil Saddekni

“…Peritoneal catheters are mainly used for peritoneal dialysis in patients with end-stage renal disease. …”
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Quality of Life, Depression, and Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Renal Replacement Therapies in Saudi Arabia by Emad Adel Shdaifat

“…Convenience sampling was used to recruit participants comprising hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD), and kidney transplantation (Tx) patients. …”
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Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in a Child Receiving Chronic Hemodialysis by Joyce Moore, Jennifer Klowak, Gloria Isaza, Steven Arora, Vladimir Belostotsky, Nina Stein, Rahul Chanchlani

“…To date, AION has only been reported in 22 children, all of whom were receiving peritoneal dialysis. We report the first case of AION in a 2-year 11-month-old child receiving chronic hemodialysis secondary to polycystic kidney disease from a phosphomannomutase 2 gene mutation. …”
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Metastatic Calcinosis of Aortic Valve Secondary to Renal Failure Mimicking Infective Endocarditis by Noman Ahmed Jang Khan, Masroor A. Khan, Guillermo Juan Morell Chardon

“…We illustrate a case of 38-year-old female with end stage renal disease on peritoneal dialysis. The patient had been complaining of pain and swelling of the right hand for the last few months and had been seen by hand surgeon and was admitted electively for the biopsy of hand lesions. …”
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Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Associated with Pneumococcal Pneumonia. A Case Report by Ariel Efrén Uriarte Méndez, Andrés Prieto Apesteguía, Jesús Vila Díaz, Jorge Luis Capote Padrón, Kendrie Villavicencio Cardoso, Alnilam Fernández González

“…We present the case of a 17-month-old child with hemolytic uremic syndrome secondary to pneumonia with empyema, who after being anuric and in intensive peritoneal dialysis for 10 days achieved normal renal function. …”
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Calciphylaxis: Temporal Artery Calcification Preceding Widespread Skin Lesions and Penile Necrosis by Manzoor A. Shah, Michael W. Roppolo

“…We report a case of 72-year-old Caucasian man with multiple comorbidities and end-stage renal disease on dialysis who presented with temporal artery calcification leading to bilateral loss of vision followed by extensive skin lesions including one on glans penis. While on peritoneal dialysis, he developed anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, had no improvement on high dose steroids, and temporal artery biopsy showed marked calcification without any evidence of vasculitis. …”
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Physical Activity and Blood Lipids and Lipoproteins in Dialysis Patients by Hiroyuki Imamura, Keiko Mizuuchi, Reika Oshikata

“…The known associations in the general population of physical activity with high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol subfractions and apolipoprotein A-I are more pronounced in hemodialysis patients than in peritoneal dialysis patients even after adjusting for these confounding factors. …”
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NFAT5 Contributes to Osmolality-Induced MCP-1 Expression in Mesothelial Cells by Christoph Küper, Franz-X. Beck, Wolfgang Neuhofer

“…Increased expression of the C-C chemokine monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in mesothelial cells in response to high glucose concentrations and/or high osmolality plays a crucial role in the development of peritoneal fibrosis during continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). Recent studies suggest that in kidney cells osmolality-induced MCP-1 upregulation is mediated by the osmosensitive transcription factor, nuclear factor of activated T cells 5 (NFAT5). …”
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The Tunnelled Atrial Catheter: A Promising Solution for Vascular Capital Depletion in Dialysis despite Associated Thrombi by Meriam Hajji, Salah Saied, Ikram Mami, Yassine Khadhar, Tasnim Ben Ayed, Imen Gorsane, Fethi Ben Hamida, Jalel Ziadi, Mohamed Karim Zouaghi, Ezzeddine Abderrahim

“…With the limited access to kidney transplantation programs and peritoneal dialysis, exhaustion of vascular access for hemodialysis is an increasingly common situation. …”
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Acute Thoracic Aortic Dissection (Stanford Type B) Complicated with Acute Renal Failure by Li Li, ShunJiu Zhuang, ShaoHong Qi, JiaSheng Cui, JunWen Zhou, Huaqi Zhu, Wan Zhang, Ming Li, Weiguo Fu

“…The patient underwent preoperational peritoneal dialysis followed by thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) and was fully recovered and discharged soon after surgery. …”
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Peritoneal Equilibration Test in Costa Rica: Discrepancies from Other Populations by Marta Avellan-Boza, Fabio Hernández, Allan Ramos-Esquivel

“…Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) is a kidney replacement therapy that has been recently incorporated in developing countries. …”
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Urinary Obstruction of Transplanted Kidney Caused by Uterine Adenomyosis and 2-Year Posthysterectomy Psoas Abscess in Conjunction with Transplanted Kidney by Yuta Takezawa, Yoshifumi Kadono, Takahiro Nohara, Atsushi Mizokami

“…She was started on peritoneal dialysis from the age of 26 years and received kidney transplantation from her mother (living donor) at the age of 27 years. …”
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Renal Urotensin II System Plays Roles in the Regulation of Blood Pressure in Dahl Salt-Resistant Rat by Fei Wu, Guanjong Chen, Aihua Zhang, Yang Yu, Minhua Fan, Chaoshu Tang

“…Dahl salt-resistant (SR) animal models are similar to peritoneal dialysis patients with fluid volumes overload with normal blood pressure in hemodynamic profiles. …”
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Diabetic Muscle Infarction: A Rare Cause of Acute Limb Pain in Dialysis Patients by G. De Vlieger, B. Bammens, F. Claus, R. Vos, K. Claes

“…In the current paper, we present two diabetic patients with cystic fibrosis, who are treated with automated peritoneal dialysis and suffered from episodic lower limb infarction. …”
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High-Urgency Renal Transplantation: Indications and Long-Term Outcomes by Lampros Kousoulas, Nikos Emmanouilidis, Wilfried Gwinner, Jürgen Klempnauer, Frank Lehner

“…The major indication for the HU renal transplantation was the imminent lack of access for either hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis (67%). The patient survival of the study population was 67%, 56%, and 56%, whereas the graft survival was 47%, 35% and 35%, at 5, 10, and 15 years, respectively. …”
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Surgical Management of Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis: A Case Report in Kidney Transplant Patient by R. Shahbazov, M. Talanian, J. L. Alejo, F. Azari, A. Agarwal, K. L. Brayman

“…Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is a clinical syndrome of progressive fibrotic change in response to prolonged, repetitive, and typically severe insult to the peritoneal mesothelium, often occurring in the setting of peritoneal dialysis (PD). Clear guidelines for successful management remain elusive. …”
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Vascular access on YouTube: Navigating the stream of information for hemodialysis patients by Alp Yildirim, Muhammed Sefa Saglam, Serkan Mola, Ali Baran Budak

“…Treatment options include renal transplant, peritoneal dialysis, and hemodialysis, with hemodialysis being the most common, necessitating suitable vascular access like arteriovenous fistula (AVF), graft, or catheter. …”
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De Novo Onset of Myasthenia Gravis after Kidney Transplantation by Aaron de Souza, Rajesh Raj

“…A 57-year-old female on treatment with peritoneal dialysis following polycystic kidney disease received a renal transplant with standard basiliximab induction. …”
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Association between physical activity and quality of life in haemodialysed and peritoneal dialyzed patients in Hungary by Enikő Király, Gergő József Szőllősi, Zoltán Jenei, István Kárpáti

“…Background Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD) or haemodyalisis (PD) appear to be less physically active than healthy persons, a situation that could lead to reductions in quality of life. …”
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Evaluation of Health-related Quality of Life in Regular Hemodialysis Patients Using the KDQOL-SFTM Questionnaire by Eliseo Capote Leyva, Raydel Argudín Selier, Salvador Roberto Mora González, Lázaro Capote Pereira, Idrissa Leonard Rupalé, Yosvany Moret Hernández

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> a cross-sectional study was conducted in chronic renal failure patients undergoing regular hemodialysis in the hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis service of the Dr. Carlos J. Finlay Military Hospital from January through February 2013. …”
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