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  3. The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has dramatically altered the lifestyles of many people worldwide. Several studies reported that body weight of young adults increased during the COVID-19 pande...

    Authors: Narumi Fukuzaki, Yuta Suzuki, Juri Uchida, Takuya Nakajima, Shohei Yamamoto, Keigo Imamura, Shun Yoshikoshi, Manae Harada, Ryota Matsuzawa, Kentaro Kamiya and Atsuhiko Matsunaga
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:12
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  4. That the prevalence of low triiodothyronine (T3) syndrome is high among hemodialysis (HD) patients has been previously established. Herein, we examined the association of glycated albumin (GA) and the GA to gl...

    Authors: Keiji Mimura, Takahiro Nishide, Toshihide Naganuma, Yui Katsube, Seiji Ishitani, Katsuhiko Nakahara, Naohisa Hirasaka, Rie Mizobata, Yuko Yamagata, Osamu Nishikawa and Susumu Yukawa
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:11
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  5. Haemodialysis (HD) patients are at increased risk of frailty, sarcopenia and protein energy wasting, all associated with increased mortality. Most of the dialysis day is taken up with travelling to and from di...

    Authors: Andrew Davenport
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:10
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  6. Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is a rare disorder characterized by asthma, eosinophilia, and systemic vasculitis. Renal involvement is not regarded as a prominent feature and the treatmen...

    Authors: Ryuichi Yoshii, Kengo Kajiwara, Naomichi Uemura, Koki Matsushita, Tomohumi Nakamura, Masao Tomita and Masashi Mukoyama
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:9
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  7. Conventional hemodialysis (HD) for kidney failure patients with severe hyponatremia may be complicated by rapid correction of hyponatremia, which increases the risk of osmotic demyelination syndrome. A simple ...

    Authors: Mohamed Sary Gharib
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:8
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  8. Patients on haemodialysis are predisposed to heart rhythm disorders, including bradyarrhythmia, atrial fibrillation (AF)/atrial flutter, supraventricular/ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) ...

    Authors: Emi Anno, Yukihiro Sato, Ainori Hoshimoto, Makiko Harano, So Hagiwara, Eri Imai, Shuzo Kaneko and Yusuke Tsukamoto
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:7
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  9. Cardiorespiratory fitness seems to play an important role in the general health of patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD). However, the prediction of peak oxygen uptake (V̇O2peak) in a clinical setting is not wide...

    Authors: Francini Porcher Andrade, Heitor Siqueira Ribeiro, Heloíse Benvenutti, Samantha Gonçalves de Oliveira, Fernando Saldanha Thomé, Francisco Veríssimo Veronese and Paula Maria Eidt Rovedder
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:6
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  10. Peritonitis is a serious and potentially fatal complication of peritoneal dialysis. We report a case of fatal peritonitis caused by Mycobacterium mageritense that was detected for the first time in peritonitis.

    Authors: Nobuhiro Hashimoto, Nao Kani, Shuzo Makino, Tomoya Naka, Hiromitsu Miyakawa, Kazuhiro Okamoto, Ryuta Uwatoko, Saki Bessho, Rei Iio, Yoshiyasu Ueda and Terumasa Hayashi
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:5
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  11. Non-cuffed hemodialysis (HD) catheters are often used for emergency or temporary vascular access. Its complications include thrombosis and catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI); however, thrombophlebi...

    Authors: Shun Yoshida, Koichi Usui, Tsukasa Naganuma, Ikuo Nukui and Masakiyo Wakasugi
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:4
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  13. Frailty has become an emerging public health problem in the aging society and is regarded as a state of vulnerability to developing increased dependency and/or mortality when exposed to a stressor. As the prop...

    Authors: Kosaku Nitta, Norio Hanafusa, Yuki Kawaguchi and Ken Tsuchiya
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:2
    Content type: Review Published on:

  14. Post-transplant de novo thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is a rare yet serious complication that generally can develop in renal transplant recipients immediately after reperfusion or several months after transpla...

    Authors: Keisuke Ozaki, Tomoya Fukawa, Kunihisa Yamaguchi, Keito Shiozaki, Yutaro Sasaki, Sayo Ueda, Kohjiro Nagai, Shu Wakino, Masayuki Takahashi and Hiro-omi Kanayama
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2023 9:1
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  15. Iron deficiency is widely present in patients with heart failure (HF) and is associated with an increased risk of mortality and poor clinical outcomes regardless of anemia. HF is highly prevalent in patients w...

    Authors: Kyoko Ito, Kenjiro Murakami, Ryoichi Yamada, Hiroyuki Susai and Noriaki Nishino
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:64
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a severe form of fungal infection caused by the genus Aspergillus in immunocompromised hosts and has a high mortality rate. End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is one of the risk factor...

    Authors: Noriaki Sato, Hideki Yokoi, Mitsuhiro Ichioka, Akira Ishii, Takeshi Matsubara and Motoko Yanagita
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:63
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  17. The incidence of cardiovascular (CV) events is high in hemodialysis (HD) patients and is associated with hyporesponsiveness to erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs). However, there are no recommended target...

    Authors: Kosaku Nitta, Takahiro Kuragano, Nobuhiko Joki, Kazuhiko Tsuruya, Hirokazu Honda, Takayuki Hamano, Hideki Fujii, Yukari Uemura and Ken Tsuchiya
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:62
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  19. Severe pregabalin intoxication may cause serious symptoms, such as coma. Since pregabalin is a small molecule with no protein binding sites and has low volume of distribution, hemodialysis can be effective in ...

    Authors: Takashi Shimazui, Nobuya Kitamura, Kuniyuki Kako, Shinya Iwase, Toshinao Suzuki, Shota Hoshino, Hiromi Futagami, Kazuhiko Kibayashi and Ken-ichiro Nakao
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:60
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  20. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is frequently associated with renal anemia. Erythropoiesis-stimulating agent-hyporesponsive anemia is often caused by iron deficiency in patients with CKD. We hypothesized that hig...

    Authors: Takuya Yoshida, Masayuki Tsujimoto, Sachiyo Kawakami, Haruno Fujioka, Yuko Irie, Saki Nakatani, Ayako Iso, Ayaka Sugiyama, Mizuho Miyake, Kazumi Hirato, Rie Tanaka, Tomoko Oda, Taku Furukubo, Satoshi Izumi, Tomoyuki Yamakawa, Tetsuya Minegaki…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:59
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  21. The Japan Society for Blood Purification in Critical Care (JSBPCC) has reported survey results on blood purification therapy (BPT) for critically ill patients in 2005, 2009, and 2013. To clarify the current cl...

    Authors: Masanori Abe, Hidetoshi Shiga, Hiroomi Tatsumi, Yoshihiro Endo, Yoshihiko Kikuchi, Yasushi Suzuki, Kent Doi, Taka-Aki Nakada, Hiroyuki Nagafuchi, Noriyuki Hattori, Nobuyuki Hirohashi, Takeshi Moriguchi, Osamu Yamaga and Osamu Nishida
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:58
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  22. Patients undergoing dialysis experience substantial decreases in muscle mass and functional muscle weakness. Muscle mass loss in patients undergoing hemodialysis is an independent predictor of survival, so mus...

    Authors: Yumi Seto, Mina Kimura, Tomohito Matsunaga, Eishi Miyasita and Yoshihiko Kanno
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:57
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  23. The state of vascular access affects the efficiency of hemodialysis. Poor blood flow of vascular access causes recirculation, which reduces treatment efficiency. In the clinical setting, the resistance index (...

    Authors: Katsuyuki Umei, Naohiro Toda, Juri Izumi, Yuriko Umeda, Mari Iwata, Kazuhide Nakanishi and Toshiyuki Komiya
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:56
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  24. In the Japanese guidelines on combination peritoneal dialysis (PD) and hemodialysis (HD) therapy, patients with serum beta 2 microglobulin (β2MG) levels less than 30 mg/L are recommended. And PD patients with ...

    Authors: Shinobu Moriya, Shun Nishizawa, Yayoi Tsuchihashi, Yoshihiro Inoue, Kimio Watanabe, Yugo Ito, Hassu Kin and Masaaki Nakayama
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:55
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  25. The present status of Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Mongolia, and Bhutan as of June 2019 was reviewed from the interviews of leading doctors in every country. The timing was until just 6 months before the ...

    Authors: Toru Hyodo, Akihiro C. Yamashita, Nobuhito Hirawa, Yoshitaka Isaka, Hidetomo Nakamoto and Takashi Shigematsu
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:54
    Content type: Position statement Published on:

  26. In end-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD), patients experience disabilities stemming from organ failure. These can be worsened by symptoms and complications of underlying cause(s), and the conditions associate...

    Authors: Alfred Wai Ping Seng and Shuen-Loong Tham
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:53
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  27. All-cause mortality is lower with a high substitution volume in predilution (pre) and postdilution (post) online hemodiafiltration (OHDF) than with hemodialysis (HD), and mortality does not significantly diffe...

    Authors: Kazuyoshi Okada, Manabu Tashiro, Hiroyuki Michiwaki, Tomoko Inoue, Hisato Shima, Jun Minakuchi and Shu Kawashima
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:52
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  28. We compared amino acid leakage among high-volume pre-dilution on-line hemodiafiltration (Pre O-HDF), hemodialysis (HD), and post-dilution on-line hemodiafiltration (Post O-HDF).

    Authors: Motoko Kato, Shunichiro Urabe, Shohei Matsuzawa, Akira Kato, Momoko Fukazawa, Emi Hiyama, Asami Kurii, Noriko Mikami, Yukie Kitajima, Miho Hida, Kenichi Kokubo and Toru Hyodo
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:51
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  29. Generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) usually presents with fever, generalized flushing, and multiple sterile pustules on the skin, which histopathologically form subcorneal pustules characterized by Kogoj spon...

    Authors: Keiki Shimada, Daisuke Katagiri, Aika Kato, Naoto Nunose, Motohiko Sato, Yuri Katayama, Kanako Terakawa, Takahito Niikura, Emi Sakamoto, Yuki Yoshizaki, Minami Suzuki, Takashi Fukaya, Takeshi Tamaki and Hideki Takano
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:50
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  32. We experienced a nosocomial outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from November 2020 to February 2021, during the third wave of the pandemic in Japan.

    Authors: Jun Ino, Fumika Iemura, Chihiro Nakajima, Mio Kodama, Saeko Kumon, Keitaro Sato, Hitoshi Eizumi, Nobuhiro Hijikata, Sadayuki Oshio, Shingo Tachibana, Kosaku Nitta and Junichi Hoshino
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:47
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  33. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has reduced mortality caused by AIDS resulting from HIV infection. Meanwhile, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease, a chronic HIV complication, is increasing. Antiretroviral th...

    Authors: Tetsuya Abe, Daisuke Ishii, Yuki Imura, Ayano Noguchi, Kazuki Kitajima, Yasuo Takeuchi, Tatsuhiko Wada and Kazunari Yoshida
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:46
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  34. In patients with severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the use of acrylonitrile hemofilters can reduce cytokine concentrations. However, acrylonitrile hemofilters can easily coagulate, and the effect of hemof...

    Authors: Kanako Takahashi, Hiroyuki Inoue, Masumi Kishimoto, Ryuichi Nakayama, Takehiko Kasai, Naofumi Bunya, Keisuke Harada, Shuji Uemura and Eichi Narimatsu
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:45
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  35. A fluid commonly used for dialysis in Japan is prepared from two dialysate concentrates and dialysis water. Silicon (Si) from tap water is reported in dialysis water as suspended insoluble particulate matters....

    Authors: Motoyuki Imai, Masahito Yamamoto, Konomi Togo and Akihiro C. Yamashita
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:44
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  36. The number of dialysis patients with diabetes is currently increasing in Japan and a similar proportion worldwide. It was suggested that approximately 20% of these patients had hypoglycemia after dialysis sess...

    Authors: Akinori Hayashi, Kenta Matoba, Yasuhiro Ohata, Naoya Shimizu, Agena Suzuki, Satoe Fujii, Marie Sato, Koji Takano and Masayoshi Shichiri
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:43
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  37. The rise in end stage kidney disease (ESKD) prevalence globally calls for a need to deliver quality and cost-effective dialysis. While most are familiar with centre-based haemodialysis (HD), there is a move to...

    Authors: Yue Tein Irene Ang, Shien Wen Sheryl Gan, Chee Hsiang Liow, Chee Chin Phang, Hui Lin Lina Choong and Peiyun Liu
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:42
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  38. Standard amino acid solutions have recently been removed from the contraindications for use in dialysis patients in Japan. However, the details of their safety and efficacy in these patients are still not know...

    Authors: Ryota Yasukawa, Michihiro Hosojima, Hideyuki Kabasawa, Aya Takeyama, Daisuke Ugamura, Yoshiki Suzuki, Akihiko Saito and Ichiei Narita
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:41
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  39. Patient activation in chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasingly being prioritized and considered a quality metric in CKD. Given the importance of patients’ activation in improving the quality of chronic dis...

    Authors: Reyhane Mirmazhari, Mansour Ghafourifard and Zahra Sheikhalipour
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:40
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  40. Dialysis patients are predisposed to severe disease and have a high mortality rate in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to their comorbidities and immunocompromised conditions. Therefore, dialysis patien...

    Authors: Ayumi Yoshifuji, Masataro Toda, Munekazu Ryuzaki, Kan Kikuchi, Toru Kawai, Ken Sakai, Emi Oyama, Masayoshi Koinuma, Kazuhiko Katayama, Yuki Uehara, Norio Ohmagari, Yoshihiko Kanno, Hirofumi Kon, Toshio Shinoda, Yaoko Takano, Junko Tanaka…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:39
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  41. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is the recommended renal replacement therapy for patients with end-stage kidney disease. Complementary hemodialysis (HD) once per week for PD patients can aid in achieving adequate dia...

    Authors: Hiroaki Io, Junichiro Nakata, Hiroyuki Inoshita, Toshiki Kano, Masanori Ishizaka, Masahiro Muto, Yu Sasaki, Takuya Maeda, Haruna Fukuzaki, Yuki Shimizu and Yusuke Suzuki
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:38
    Content type: Review Published on:

  42. Clotting within the membrane and/or venous ‘air trap’ chamber is common problems during continuous blood purification therapy. Frequent clotting during continuous blood purification therapy leads to inadequate...

    Authors: Kozue Kobayashi, Yoshitaka Kurihara, Shunichi Ueki, Kenichi Kokubo, Masaru Kubota and Hirosuke Kobayashi
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:37
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  43. Accurately identifying the factors contributing to decline in activities of daily living (ADL) is important for preventing such decline in patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD). We studied the prevalence and n...

    Authors: Yusuke Matsunaga, Hiroki Takahashi, Yuta Suzuki, Shohei Yamamoto, Keigo Imamura, Shun Yoshikoshi, Juri Uchida, Takuya Nakajima, Narumi Fukuzaki, Manae Harada, Ryota Matsuzawa, Atsushi Yoshida, Kanako Ichikura, Yuko Fukase, Norio Murayama, Hanako Murase…
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:36
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  44. Person-centered care (PCC) is considered an important component of high-quality care in hemodialysis units. Hemodialysis patients and nurses may have different perceptions of person-centeredness in hemodialysi...

    Authors: Simin Abdolsattari, Mansour Ghafourifard and Kobra Parvan
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:35
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  45. To prevent tunnel infection of indwelling catheters, impregnation with antiseptics or antibiotics is effective. However, 13 patients using chlorhexidine–silver sulfadiazine-impregnated catheters experienced se...

    Authors: Koji Umeda, Masaji Tachikawa, Yoshinao Azuma and Tsutomu Furuzono
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:34
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  47. Reportedly, dialysis solutions containing molecular hydrogen (H2) might ameliorate patient-reported fatigue in hemodialysis (HD) patients. However, it is unknown whether its impact might differ with different ...

    Authors: Susumu Uemura, Yoshitaka Kegasa, Keigo Tada, Taichi Tsukahara, Shigeru Kabayama, Tae Yamamoto, Mariko Miyazaki, Joji Takada and Masaaki Nakayama
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:32
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  48. Biomarkers are needed to diagnose kidney rejection in transplant recipients. We evaluated whether dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) could serve as a biomarker of rejection.

    Authors: Atsushi Yamagishi, Hayato Nishida, Hiromi Ito, Hiroki Fukuhara and Norihiko Tsuchiya
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:31
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  49. To assess the association between the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) with all-cause mortality in Peruvian patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) attending a ter...

    Authors: Gianfranco Eddú Umeres-Francia, María Valentina Rojas-Fernández, Percy Herrera-Añazco and Vicente Aleixandre Benites-Zapata
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:30
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  50. Fungal peritonitis is a common and serious complication associated with peritoneal dialysis (PD), and it is often refractory to treatment.

    Authors: Satoshi Nishioka, Masahito Yamanaka, Yasushi Kunisho, Yuhei Aoki, Masato Higasitani, Tomoko Yokoyama, Tomoyo Oyama, Misako Ohkusu, Katuhiko Kamei and Tadashi Sofue
    Citation: Renal Replacement Therapy 2022 8:29
    Content type: Case Report Published on:
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