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It has long been known that dialysis treatment is susceptible to disasters. In fact, the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 and the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster in 2011 severely affected dialysis treatme...
Hemodialysis patients are more likely to be severely affected if infected by COVID-19. Contributing factors include chronic kidney disease, old age, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cerebrovas...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Patients on haemodialysis are predisposed to heart rhythm disorders, including bradyarrhythmia, atrial fibrillation (AF)/atrial flutter, supraventricular/ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We examined the clinical characteristics of hemodialysis patients with COVID-19 during the 6th wave of infection (mainly Omicron variant) in Japan.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 (...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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).
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...
The Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy published a proposal in 2014 and revised it to Shared Decision Making for the Initiation and Continuation of Dialysis: A Proposal from the Japanese Society for Dialysi...
In the early days of peritoneal dialysis (PD) therapy, its limited duration and peritoneal deterioration were argued to be its disadvantages. Biocompatible solutions and hybrid therapy have been used in Japan ...
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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Iliopsoas abscess is a relatively rare but serious infectious disease. Infectious disease is one of the major causes of death among patients receiving hemodialysis for end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
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 ...
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.
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...
Fungal peritonitis is a common and serious complication associated with peritoneal dialysis (PD), and it is often refractory to treatment.
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