Kt/V
Online conductivity monitoring of dialysis adequacy versus Kt/V derived from urea reduction ratio: A prospective study from a Saudi center
... of Kt/V is of fundamental importance in prescribing and, above all, in assessing the adequacy of the dialysis actually delivered, which is strictly related to patient morbidity and ...determining ...
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Relationship between Kt/V urea-based dialysis adequacy and nutritional status and their effect on the components of the quality of life in incident peritoneal dialysis patients
... Results: Seventy-seven incident patients who underwent PD for 6 months were included in the study. The mean age was 47.3 years, and the male-to-female ratio was 38:39. A peritoneal Kt/V urea value of 1.2, ...
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Squared frequency-Kt/V: a new index of hemodialysis adequacy—correlation with solute concentrations by computer simulation
... and V as the esti- mated body fluid .../ V would be affected by the differences between the estimated and actual body fluid volume and between the calculated clearance and actual clearance caused by a ...
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Urea reduction ratio may be a simpler approach for measurement of adequacy of intermittent hemodialysis in acute kidney injury
... of Kt/V used during the study was therefore cumbersome and not readily transferable to clinical ...and Kt/V in more than 3600 dialysis ...
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Frail phenotype is associated with distinct quantitative electroencephalographic findings among end-stage renal disease patients: an observational study
... Patients with ESRD under chronic hemodialysis were prospectively enrolled from National Taiwan University Hospital Jinshan branch, according to previously published procedures [9, 14]. In brief, we included patients with ...
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Determination of haemodialysis adequacy by ionic dialysance: clinical application and limitations
... that V calculated from anthropometric data may overestimate total body water is that a significant depletion in muscle mass is present in many dialysis patients (Wuepper et ...of V, McIntyre et ...for ...
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Adequacy of dialysis in Iranian patients undergoing hemodialysis : a systematic review and meta-analysis
... data, methodologically low-quality articles, and the arti- cles that lacked full-text were excluded. Data extraction was performed using a checklist containing author’s first name, language of the article, year of ...
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Factors associated with gustatory threshold for salty taste in peritoneal dialysis patients
... The discriminative model of the high detection and rec- ognition thresholds was mined via C5.0 decision tree. The candidates of explanatory variables were selected via criteria of p value < 0.05, in the hypothesis ...
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Control of fluid balance guided by body composition monitoring in patients on peritoneal dialysis (COMPASS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... test, Kt/V (where K is dialyzer clearance of urea, t is dialysis time, and V is vol- ume of distribution of urea, approximately equal to the patient's total body water), and 4) adherence to the ...
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Exaggerated blood pressure response to dynamic exercise despite chronic refractory hypotension : results of a human case study
... A 40-year old female haemodialysis-dependent patient had a 2 year history of chronic refractory severe hypotension (≤80/50 mmHg). Previous treatment with α1-adrenergic agonist, mineralocorticoid analog and optimization ...
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Original Article Pseudo-hypoalbuminemia in peritoneal dialysis patients
... Abstract: Introduction: Oxidative stress in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients produces molecular modifications of serum albumin that disturb its biological functions and interfere with its detection by the commonly used ...
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In vivo and in vitro performance of a China-made hemodialysis machine: a multi-center prospective controlled study
... The Kt/V and URR values at the 1st and 4th weeks of dialysis as well as the incidence of adverse effects did not differ between the two groups in cross‑over in vivo tests (P > ...
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Effects of electrical stimulation on muscle power and biochemical markers during hemodialysis in elderly patients: a pilot randomized clinical trial
... addition, Kt/V significantly increased after the intervention in the ES and EX groups, whereas serum phosphorus and serum TNF- α levels significantly decreased in the ES group ...
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Exaggerated blood pressure response to dynamic exercise despite chronic refractory hypotension: results of a human case study
... A 40-year old female haemodialysis-dependent patient had a 2 year history of chronic refractory severe hypotension (≤80/50 mmHg). Previous treatment with α1-adrenergic agonist, mineralocorticoid analog and optimization ...
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Impact of heavy proteinuria on clinical outcomes in patients on incident peritoneal dialysis
... weekly Kt/V , peritoneal Kt/V , Geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI), dialysis modality (automated PD), 24-hr peri- toneal albumin loss (mg/day), 24-hr proteinuria level (mg/day), 24-hr ...
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Positive association of residual kidney function with hemoglobin level in patients on peritoneal dialysis independent of endogenous erythropoietin concentration
... total Kt/V, calculated by the addition of renal Kt/V to peritoneal Kt/V, with Hb level, was observed in the univariable regression ...peritoneal Kt/V and Hb ...
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Peridynamic modeling of diffusion by using finite element analysis
... Link Element Properties Original Modified Thermal Conductivity kT V Cross Sectional Area A κT V Length of link element L ξ Table 2 Calibration of a link element for moisture analysis Lin[r] ...
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Thermal Conductivity Enhancement of Magnetic Fluids under Magnetic Field Based on Percolation Theory
... parameters: the dipole coupling constant and Langevin parameter ¡, defined by normalization of the thermal energy, Ethermal = kT, ®0 M 2 V ð3Þ 24kT mH ¡¼ ð4Þ kT where k, ®0, M, V, m, an[r] ...
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Taxation without Commitment
... We will now show that any steady state of the best sustainable equilibrium must have zero capital taxes without imposing concavity of V kt ; at : The idea is that if commitment were bind[r] ...
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Book Reviews
... that KT has the following effects: (i) increasing proprioception by providing constant cuta- neous afferent stimulation through the skin, (ii) realign- ing fascial tissue function by normalizing muscle tension, ...
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