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Influence of relative hypoparathyroidism on the responsiveness to recombinant human erythropoietin in hemodialysis patients 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
BACKGROUND/AIM: It has been shown in a few studies examining small patient groups that high levels of intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) were associated with a less efficient response to recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO). However, the responsiveness to rHuEPO in hemodialysis (HD) patients with relative hypoparathyroidism remains undetermined. This study examines the responsiveness to rHuEPO in HD patients with relative hypoparathyroidism. METHODS: We retrospectively studied 19 nondiabetic patients (mean age 44.3 +/- 8.2 years, age range 29.4-55.6 years) treated with HD for chronic glomerulonephritis. Of the 19 patients, 8 (group A) had iPTH levels <100 pg/ml for the preceding 6 months without administration of 1,25-(OH)(2)-vitamin D(3). Eleven patients had iPTH levels >100 pg/ml (group B). Hematocrit (Hct) and rHuEPO doses were recorded for statistical analysis. RESULTS: In patients of groups A and B, the rHuEPO dose (U/kg/week) was 55.21 +/- 16.23 vs. 84.08 +/- 24.56 (p = 0.01); Hct (%) 33.29 +/- 1.72 vs. 31.43 +/- 2.98 (p = 0.67), and rHuEPO resistance index (weekly rHuEPO dose/Hct) 81.38 +/- 16.64 vs. 155.63 +/- 42.22 (p < 0.001). Furthermore, weekly rHuEPO dose and rHuEPO resistance index correlated positively with serum iPTH levels (R = 0.765, p < 0.001; R = 0.764, p < 0.001), whereas the Hct correlated negatively with serum iPTH levels (R = -0.400, p = 0.045). The alkaline phosphatase level (IU/l) was lower (50.46 +/- 12.87 vs. 69.61 +/- 20.68, p = 0.17) in group A. CONCLUSION: Our observations suggest that the lower the iPTH levels of chronic HD patients, even with relative hypoparathyroidism, the better the responsiveness to rHuEPO. 相似文献
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Pentoxifylline attenuated the renal disease progression in rats with remnant kidney 总被引:12,自引:0,他引:12
Lin SL Chen YM Chien CT Chiang WC Tsai CC Tsai TJ 《Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN》2002,13(12):2916-2929
Previous studies have reported that pentoxifylline, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, attenuates experimental mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis. This study hypothesized that pentoxifylline could also attenuate the renal disease progression in rats with remnant kidney. After 5/6 subtotal nephrectomy, rats developed progressively elevated proteinuria and plasma creatinine, glomerulosclerosis, interstitial inflammation, and fibrosis, all of which were attenuated by 40 to 60% by pentoxifylline. However, the elevated BP was not changed by pentoxifylline. Pentoxifylline reduced the upregulation of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 gene by 60% in the cortex of remnant kidney, as well as in a dose-dependent manner in the albumin- or angiotensin II-stimulated proximal tubular cells. It also reduced the upregulation of mitogenic and profibrogenic genes by 50%, including platelet-derived growth factor, fibroblast growth factor-2, transforming growth factor-beta(1), connective tissue growth factor, and types I and III collagen in the cortex of remnant kidney. Furthermore, pentoxifylline was found to decrease the numbers of interstitial myofibroblasts by 60% in the cortex of remnant kidney and suppress the proliferation of cultured interstitial fibroblasts. It also reduced the angiotensin II-induced or transforming growth factor-beta(1)-induced expression of connective tissue growth factor gene in cultured fibroblasts and mesangial cells. Combining pentoxifylline with an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, cilazapril, almost completely attenuated the renal disease progression in rats with remnant kidney. In conclusion, pentoxifylline alone can attenuate the chronic renal disease progression. Its combination with cilazapril has the potential to prevent the renal disease progression almost completely. 相似文献
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Hung PH Chiang WC Chen YM Lin SL Lin WC Tsai TJ Chen WY 《Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.)》2004,9(5):297-303
AIMS: This retrospective study defined the clinical features and outcome of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated glomerulonephritis in 18 seropositive Taiwanese patients (11 male, seven female; median age 64 years; range 21-82 years) with biopsy-proven pauci-immune necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis. RESULTS: Fourteen patients had a diagnosis of systemic vasculitis including 10 with microscopic polyangiitis and four with Wegener's granulomatosis; the remaining four had only glomerulonephritis. At onset, 100% of the systemic vasculitis patients had pulmonary lesions with or without haemoptysis, and 29% presented with seizure in the absence of a defined brain lesion. Median serum creatinine concentration was 362.4 micromol/L (range 61.9-857.5 micromol/L) and dialysis therapy was needed in six patients. During follow up (median 16.5 months; range 2-72 months), treatment included cyclophosphamide and corticosteroids (n = 8) or corticosteroids alone (n = 7). In some patients, treatment improved (n = 4) or stabilized (n = 4) renal function. But chronic dialysis was needed in the other 10 patients. Follow-up death occurred because of sepsis (n = 3) and haemorrhage (n = 2). Patient survival rates were 78% (1 year) and 72% (5 years). Renal survival rates were 56 and 39% at 1 and 5 years, respectively. Of the candidate clinical and pathological parameters, chronic glomerular lesions in renal biopsy were the only determinant of poor renal outcome (P = 0.006). CONCLUSION: Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated glomerulonephritis should be considered in nephritic patients with extrarenal manifestations, especially pulmonary infiltrate, unexplained seizure, and fever of an unknown origin in Taiwanese patients. Renal biopsy should be performed before initiating immunosuppressive therapy because the most common cause of mortality was sepsis. 相似文献
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Quality of sleep and psychosocial factors for patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis. 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Ju-Yeh Yang Jenq-Wen Huang Yu-Sen Peng Shou-Shang Chiang Chwei-Shiun Yang Chin-Ching Yang Huey-Wen Chen Ming-Shiou Wu Kwan-Dun Wu Tun-Jun Tsai Wan-Yu Chen 《Peritoneal dialysis international》2007,27(6):675-680
OBJECTIVES: Sleep disorders are common in end-stage renal disease patients. This study examined the relationship between self-reported quality of sleep (QoS) and certain psychosocial domains for patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD). METHODS: The study subjects included 190 PD patients from 7 urban dialysis clinics in Northern Taiwan, from whom we obtained biochemical parameters and demographic data. QoS, quality of life (QoL), religious/spiritual activity, and depression were assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire, Medical Outcomes Study Short Form (SF-36) for QoL, the Royal Free Questionnaire, and the Beck Depression Inventory, respectively. RESULTS: The average PSQI score was 9.1 +/- 4.1 and, in total, 85.8% of all patients were poor sleepers (global PSQI > or =5). There was no difference in age, gender, and mode or duration of PD between good and poor sleepers. Biochemical data did not differ between the two groups. Widowed patients experienced significantly poorer QoS than patients with other marital status (PSQI scores: 12.3 +/- 4.9 vs 8.88 +/- 4.0, p = 0.006). The percentage of patients that held a bachelor's degree or above was significantly higher in good sleepers (55.6% vs 29.4%, p = 0.008). The PSQI value correlated negatively with the QoL scale in both physical (r = -0.295, p < 0.001) and mental domains (r = -0.410, p < 0.001), and correlated positively with the depression scale (r = 0.351, p < 0.001). There appeared to be no association between QoS and spiritual/religious activity (r = -0.097, p = 0.223). CONCLUSIONS: Psychosocial factors including depression, patients' perceptions regarding QoL, marital status, and educational background correlated significantly to the subjective QoS for PD patients. When dealing with sleep disorders in PD patients, physicians should pay considerable attention to their psychosocial backgrounds. 相似文献
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Yu-Feng Lin Wen-Je Ko Tzong-Shinn Chu Yih-Sharng Chen Vin-Cent Wu Yung-Ming Chen Ming-Shiou Wu Yung-Wei Chen Ching-Wei Tsai Chih-Chung Shiao Wen-Yi Li Fu-Chang Hu Pi-Ru Tsai Tun-Jun Tsai Kwan-Dun Wu The NSARF Study Group 《American journal of surgery》2009,198(3):325-1327
Background
Particular attention should be paid to postoperative patients that suffer from severe acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT).Methods
This multicenter prospective observational study included 342 patients with postoperative AKI requiring RRT from January 2002 to December 2006.Results
There were 137 (40%) survivors at 90 days after the commencement of RRT. Independent predictors of 90-day mortality were older age, presence of sepsis, status post-cardiopulmonary resuscitation, necessity of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), requirement of total parenteral nutrition, lower body mass index, higher Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score, and higher serum lactate level at the commencement of RRT. Further analysis among the survivors showed that lower serum creatinine at intensive care unit admission, lower Simplified Acute Physiology Score II and inotropic equivalent score at the commencement of RRT, and using CRRT were independent predictors for subsequent renal recovery.Conclusions
The development of AKI requiring RRT in postoperative critical patients represents a substantial risk for mortality and morbidity. 相似文献10.
Chryseobacterium meningosepticum is rarely encountered as a pathogen causing peritonitis in adults. A 54-year-old woman who underwent continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis for 8 years developed peritonitis due to C. meningosepticum. Although she received intravenous antibiotics with good in vitro activity against the organism, the fever and signs of peritonitis persisted. The Tenckhoff catheter was finally removed on the 25th day of hospitalization and the fever subsided. Four isolates of C. meningosepticum recovered from 4 ascites samples drawn on the third, 13th, 18th, and 23rd hospitalization days had identical antibiograms and random amplified DNA polymorphism patterns generated by an arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction. Early removal of Tenckhoff catheter and appropriate antimicrobial therapy are crucial to the successful treatment of peritonitis due to C. meningosepticum. 相似文献