Abstract Introduction: Chronic kidney disease is characterized as the gradual loss of kidney function, with patients on dialysis experiencing a decline in functional capacity and pulmonary function. One of the non-traditional risk factors is parathyroid hormone (PTH), which influences metabolism and the...
Failure on the water treatment poses hemodialysis patients at risk of injury and death. Identifying if the patients are exposed to water quality related microbiological risks is an important objective to reduce the mortality for chronic renal patients and is the main issue of this study. We evaluated the...
Abstract Introduction: Patients undergoing cardiac surgery frequently develop low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS). Multiple interventions including levosimendan have been used in the prevention and treatment of LCOS. Preliminary studies reported lower mortality respect to placebo or other inotropes, howe...
Resumo A doença renal crônica atinge níveis epidêmicos em praticamente todos os países. No Brasil, mais de 30 mil pessoas por ano precisam de tratamento dialítico, sendo mais comum a hemodiálise. Se, por um lado, a falta de vagas para diálise é o principal problema, por outro, têm crescido os c...
Abstract Care for patients with chronic and rare diseases is complex, especially considering the lack of knowledge about the disease, which makes early and precise diagnosis difficult, as well as the need for specific tests, sometimes of high complexity and cost. Added to these factors are difficulties i...
Protocolos Clínicos,
Cistinosis/complicaciones,
Cistinosis/diagnóstico,
Cistinosis/terapia,
Cistinosis/psicología,
Diálisis,
Síndrome de Fanconi/complicaciones,
Síndrome de Fanconi/diagnóstico,
Síndrome de Fanconi/tratamiento farmacológico,
Síndrome de Fanconi/psicología,
Fallo Renal Crónico/etiología,
Trasplante de Riñón,
Grupo de Atención al Paciente,
Embarazo,
Enfermedades Raras/complicaciones,
Enfermedades Raras/diagnóstico,
Enfermedades Raras/tratamiento farmacológico,
Enfermedades Raras/psicología,
Diálisis Renal,
Resultado del Tratamiento
ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the functional levels of health literacy in individuals undergoing dialysis. Method: a cross-sectional study with 42 patients of the Nephrology Unit of a public hospital in Recife, Brazil, from May to August 2016. Data were collected through scripted interviews and chart a...
do Val, Maria Luiza;
Menezes, Fernanda Souza;
Massaoka, Henrique Tsuha;
Scavarda, Valeska Tavares;
Czapkowski, Adriano;
Leite, Heitor Pons;
Moises, Valdir Ambrósio;
Ajzen, Sergio Aron;
de Abreu Carvalhaes, João Tomas;
Pestana, José Osmar Medina;
Koch-Nogueira, Paulo.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate cardiovascular involvement in children and adolescents with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) and to characterize the main risk factors associated with this outcome. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of 69 children and adolescents at renal transplantation and 33 healthy individuals mat...
Enfermedades Cardiovasculares/etiología,
Grosor Intima-Media Carotídeo,
Estudios de Casos y Controles,
Estudios Transversales,
Diálisis/efectos adversos,
Ecocardiografía,
Hipertensión/complicaciones,
Fallo Renal Crónico/complicaciones,
Fallo Renal Crónico/terapia,
Modelos Lineales,
Análisis Multivariante,
Medición de Riesgo,
Factores de Riesgo,
Factores de Tiempo,
Disfunción Ventricular Izquierda/etiología,
Función Ventricular Izquierda
A fim de garantir a qualidade final de produtos os laboratórios de análise microbiológica fornecem dados sobre a qualidade dos mesmos em todas as suas etapas de produção. A crescente preocupação com a saúde dos pacientes conduz à busca de métodos que forneçam resultados precisos e rápidos, po...
O monitoramento da qualidade da água de diálise caracteriza uma importante ferramenta para a tomada de decisões quando resultados laboratoriais insatisfatórios são disponibilizados em curto período de tempo. Os inconvenientes relacionados ao tempo de espera para a obtenção dos resultados têm con...
