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Kim HW, Kim SH, Kim YO, Jin DC, Song HC, Choi EJ, Kim YL, Kim YS, Kang SW, Kim NH, Yang CW, Kim YK. The impact of high-flux dialysis on mortality rates in incident and prevalent hemodialysis patients. Korean J Intern Med 2014; 29:774-84. [PMID: 25378976 PMCID: PMC4219967 DOI: 10.3904/kjim.2014.29.6.774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2014] [Revised: 05/27/2014] [Accepted: 06/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND/AIMS The effect of high-flux (HF) dialysis on mortality rates could vary with the duration of dialysis. We evaluated the effects of HF dialysis on mortality rates in incident and prevalent hemodialysis (HD) patients. METHODS Incident and prevalent HD patients were selected from the Clinical Research Center registry for end-stage renal disease (ESRD), a Korean prospective observational cohort study. Incident HD patients were defined as newly diagnosed ESRD patients initiating HD. Prevalent HD patients were defined as patients who had been receiving HD for > 3 months. The primary outcome measure was all-cause mortality. RESULTS This study included 1,165 incident and 1,641 prevalent HD patients. Following a median 24 months of follow-up, the mortality rates of the HF and low-flux (LF) groups did not significantly differ in the incident patients (hazard ratio [HR], 1.046; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.592 to 1.847; p = 0.878). In the prevalent patients, HF dialysis was associated with decreased mortality compared with LF dialysis (HR, 0.606; 95% CI, 0.416 to 0.885; p = 0.009). CONCLUSIONS HF dialysis was associated with a decreased mortality rate in prevalent HD patients, but not in incident HD patients.
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- Hyung Wook Kim
- Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
- Department of Internal Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Suwon, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
- Department of Internal Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Suwon, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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Dhondt A, Vanholder R, Van Biesen W, Lameire N. The removal of uremic toxins. KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL. SUPPLEMENT 2000; 76:S47-59. [PMID: 10936799 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.07606.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Three major groups of uremic solutes can be characterized: the small water-soluble compounds, the middle molecules, and the protein-bound compounds. Whereas small water-soluble compounds are quite easily removed by conventional hemodialysis, this is not the case for many other molecules with different physicochemical characteristics. Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) is often characterized by better removal of those compounds. Urea and creatinine are small water-soluble compounds and the most current markers of retention and removal, but they do not exert much toxicity. This is also the case for many other small water-soluble compounds. Removal pattern by dialysis of urea and creatinine is markedly different from that of many other uremic solutes with proven toxicity. Whereas middle molecules are removed better by dialyzers containing membranes with a larger pore size, it is not clear whether this removal is sufficient to prevent the related complications. Larger pore size has virtually no effect on the removal of protein-bound toxins. Therefore, at present, the current dialytic methods do not offer many possibilities to remove protein-bound compounds. Nutritional and environmental factors as well as the residual renal function may influence the concentration of uremic toxins in the body fluids.
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- A Dhondt
- Renal Division, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Gent, Gent, Belgium.
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Vanholder R, De Smet R, Vogeleere P, Ringoir S. Middle molecules: toxicity and removal by hemodialysis and related strategies. Artif Organs 1995; 19:1120-5. [PMID: 8579524 DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.1995.tb02273.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Renal failure results in the retention of metabolites which may arbitrarily be grouped according to their molecular weight: low (< 300 daltons molecular weight), middle (300-15,000 daltons), and high (> 15,000 daltons). Opinion in respect to the relative importance of these groups varies. Initially it was thought that small molecules were important. In the mid-1970s, investigators identified the possible pathophysiological role of middle molecules. However, since positive identification of such molecules was difficult, opinion has shifted back in favor of small molecules, and little attention, with the exception of beta 2 microglobulin, has been paid to middle molecules and their removal by hemodialysis and related therapies. In this review current knowledge regarding middle molecules identified as uremic toxins and their removal by hemodialysis and associated therapies are discussed.
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- R Vanholder
- Nephrology Department, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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Melan A, Schiffl H, Held E, Horn K. Assessment of Acute Parathyroid Responsiveness to High Calcium Dialysate in Uremic Patients. Int J Artif Organs 1993. [DOI: 10.1177/039139889301601006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The response of the parathyroid glands to dialysis-induced changes in calcium has been studied in 83 normocalcemic patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis. Predialysis concentrations of intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) were normal in 13 patients; 70 patients had increased iPTH levels of different degrees. All patients had analytically significant changes in total serum calcium (2.3 ± 0.2 vs 2.8 ± 0.2 mmol/l) without additional parenteral calcium loading during a standard dialysis session with a dialysis solution of 1.75 mmol calcium chloride. During hemodialysis the concentration of iPTH fell in 77 patients and was normalized in 48 of these patients. The remaining 6 patients showed no or an inadequate response (less than 30% suppression of predialysis iPTH) to the increase in Ca. Parathyroidectomy was performed in patients with refractory iPTH secretion. Histological evidence of marked parathyroid hyperplasia was obtained in all these patients. All patients with normal or partial responsiveness of the parathyroids tolerated at least small doses of 1.25 (OH)2-vitamin D3. Quantification of predialysis and postdialysis iPTH concentrations is a useful and simple method for identifying those uremic patients with true autonomy of the parathyroid glands at an early stage.
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- A. Melan
- Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum Innenstadt, Universität München, München - Germany
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- Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum Innenstadt, Universität München, München - Germany
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- Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum Innenstadt, Universität München, München - Germany
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- Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum Innenstadt, Universität München, München - Germany
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The concept that the PTH-calcium curve is representative of parathyroid function has been discussed. Comparisons of parathyroid function have been made between normal humans and hemodialysis patients and also between hemodialysis patients with different forms of renal osteodystrophy. From these comparisons, it is apparent that the magnitude of HPT is much greater in patients with renal failure than in normal humans, and as represented by the ratio of basal to maximal PTH, the parathyroid gland appears to be stimulated at basal serum calcium levels in hemodialysis patients. Similarly, based on an analysis of the PTH-calcium curve, we were able to determine that several differences in parathyroid function were present in hemodialysis patients with different forms of renal osteodystrophy. As compared to hemodialysis patients with LTAABD and aplastic bone disease, patients with osteitis fibrosa have a greater magnitude of hyperparathyroidism, a greater sensitivity of the parathyroid cell (slope), a higher set point of calcium, and greater PTH stimulation at basal serum calcium (ratio of basal to maximal PTH). Calcitriol treatment of hemodialysis patients with osteitis fibrosa resulted in a significant decrease in PTH throughout the PTH-calcium curve and also reduced the sensitivity (slope) of the PTH-calcium curve. The concept of hysteresis has been discussed as well as the role that the ambient basal serum calcium concentration may have on the determination of the PTH-calcium curve. Finally, the effect that successful renal transplantation has on HPT has been examined. In conclusion, we believe that the PTH-calcium curve provides a reliable assessment of parathyroid function, and as such, has considerable application for the study of parathyroid disorders in the clinical setting.
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