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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in hemodialysis patients in Sudan.
To estimate the prevalence of positivity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies in the hemodialysis population in Sudan and the risk factors of this infection in them we studied 46 hemodialysis patients (34 males, 12 ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hepatitis C virus infection in hemodialysis patients in qatar.
To evaluate the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and the histopathological aspects of this infection among regular hemodialysis patients, we followed 130 patients on regular dialysis screened for HCV antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hepatitis C virus infection in patients on maintenance dialysis in kuwait: epidemiological profile and efficacy of prophylaxis.
Data on hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (HD) in Kuwait were collected retrospectively in December 1994. Ninety three of 232 patients (40%) studied had ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hepatitis C virus infection in hemodialysis patients in jordan.
To evaluate the prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection in our hemodialysis population, we carried out a survey of 273 adult hemodialysis patients in three hemodialysis units in Jordan using a second generation rapid enzyme immunoassay. Sixty ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Prevalence of hepatitis C antibodies among hemodialysis patients in the Western province of saudi arabia.
We studied 408 patients on maintenance hemodialysis at four different centers in the Western province of Saudi Arabia to assess the prevalence of antibody against Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and the ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibodies in hemodialysis patients in madinah Al munawarah.
This study was carried out to evaluate the prevalence of antibodies against hepatitis C virus (HCV) in our hemodialysis (HD) unit at Madinah Al Munawarah in Saudi Arabia. Fifty six of the 94 ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibodies among hemodialysis patients in jeddah area, saudi arabia.
The prevalence of antibody to hepatitis C virus (HCV) in hemodialysis (HD) patients is high and variable. One hundred and thirty nine patients undergoing maintenance HD at three different renal units ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hepatitis C virus infection among hemodialysis patients in the eastern region of saudi arabia.
The prevalence of anti-HCV antibodies among hemodialysis patients in the Eastern region of Saudi Arabia was 42.8%. This is comparable to the observations from the Central region of the country. Repeated blood ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Prevalence of antibodies against the hepatitis C virus among voluntary blood donors at a makkah hospital.
One thousand four hundred and thirty nine voluntary blood donors attending the blood transfusion department at Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Makkah were screened for antibodies against hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hepatitis C virus infection: an update.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is widely prevalent world-wide particularly in high-risk individuals including patients on hemodialysis (HD). Parenteral route seems to be the main route of transmission of this infection though other routes also exist. The high prevalence of ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Saudi center for organ transplantation: activities and achievements.
The reported annual incidence of ESRD in the Kingdom is 100-120 patients per million population. The first dialysis unit in Saudi Arabia was set up in 1971 and since then rapid advances have been made in the Kingdom ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Progressive interstitial fibrosis and nephrotic syndrome associated with antituberculous therapy.
We describe a patient who developed renal failure during antituberculous therapy. The condition was characterized by an initial phase of acute tubular necrosis and nephrotic syndrome which ultimately progressed to end-stage renal disease with severe interstitial ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: observations from a university hospital in saudi arabia.
Thirty cases of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) seen at King Fahd Hospital of the University, Al-Khobar over a period of eight years, were analysed with respect to clinical features, laboratory investigations, ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Is aluminum related bone disease common in hemodialysis units using aluminum based phosphate binders?
The extent of aluminum related bone disease was evaluated in 41 patients on regular maintenance hemodialysis in two dialysis centers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. There were 22 males and 19 females aged ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The Diagnosis of Acute Renal Allograft Rejection Using T-lymphocyte Subsets in the Peripheral Blood: A Better Test Now?
Measuring the T-lymphocyte subsets CD4/CD8 ratio is known to be useful in the early diagnosis of acute rejection. A ratio of 1.3 or more is said to indicate ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Effect of short-term use of different non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on renal function during fasting in ramadan.
This study was conducted to determine the combined effect of Ramadan fasting and short-term use of different non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) on renal function in healthy volunteers. The study subjects ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Renal Transplantation in the Gulf Co-operation Council Countries.
The Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) which has six member-countries was established in 1981 to promote mutual co-operation on various aspects including health care. Efforts are ongoing to have active co-ordination among the member-countries in the field of organ ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Chronic Tubulo-interstitial Nephropathy with Hepatic Involvement in Children.
The clinical, biochemical and histological data are reported in a female infant with rapidly progressive renal failure, hepatosplenomegaly and death at the age of 2 years. This case represents another example of the newly described entity \"chronic tubulo-interstitial ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Comparison of CAPD and CCPD in Children and their Limitations.
Soon after its introduction, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) became the choice mode of dialysis treatment for small children. With the advent of automated machines, continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis (CCPD) is now finding more favor in ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Intravenous Iron Saccharate in Hemodialysis Patients Receiving r-HuEPO.
A study was undertaken to evaluate the safety and efficacy of iron saccharate in regular haemodialysis (HD) patients receiving r-HuEPO. A total of 109 patients (57 males, 52 females, mean age 34.1 + 11.7 years) were included in ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Can Uremia and Hemodialysis Affect Plasma Levels of Circulating TNF-alpha.
It is well known that uremia is associated with increased susceptibility to infection. In addition, patients on haemodialysis (HD) experience a variety of dialysis associated complications, both acute and chronic, many of them having features similar ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Incidence and Causes of Long-term Renal Allograft Loss.
The dramatic improvement observed in the short term of graft survival following the introduction of cyclosporine A, led many transplant doctors to think that long term patient and graft survival will also show similar improvement. This has not ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Glomus tumor-induced longitudinal splitting of nail mimicking median canaliform dystrophy.
Median canaliform deformity of the nail is an uncommon entity, where there is longitudinal splitting of the nail. Longitudinal splitting of the nail is a rare phenomenon and can also occur following number of growths arising ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Goldenhar syndrome with unusual features.
We report here the case of a 17 year-old girl with the classic signs of Goldenhar syndrome in the form of multiple accessory tragi, bilateral ocular dermoids, mandibular hypoplasia (micrognathia) and cervical lordosis. She also had a high arched palate, gingival ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Erythema multiforme following vaccination in an infant.
Erythema multiforme is a cutaneous reaction pattern precipitated by varied agents, notably herpes simplex and drugs. It predominantly occurs in adolescents and young adults but may be seen at other ages also. While vaccination is rarely a precipitating factor ...
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