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The study team aims to provide a food snack that is high in protein (30 g) for two weeks each month (6 treatments per patient per month) for 6 consecutive months, post-dialysis treatment, to in-center hemodialysis patients of all vintages and with all levels and types of comorbidities. The study team will compare changes in serum albumin during the intervention (6 months) using the patients' own serum albumin results that are collected for three months prior to and three months after the intervention. Additionally, the study team will determine participants' dietary habits and appetite pre-, during and post-intervention.
Disparities in palliative care for patients with serious illness exist because of gaps in knowledge around patient centered psychological, social, and spiritual palliative care interventions. Patient-centered palliative care communication interventions must be informed by the perspectives of patients who are living each day with their serious illness. Yet, there is a lack of research about how to efficiently and effectively integrate the patient's narrative into the electronic health record (EHR). The central hypothesis of this proposal is that the implementation of a patient-centered narrative intervention with patients with serious illness will result in improved patient-nurse communication and improved patient psychosocial and spiritual well-being.
Approximately 50% of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) develop acute kidney injury (AKI) and more than 10% need dialysis. There is no treatment for AKI. Care is aiming for optimization of circulation and blood flow to the kidneys and avoiding nephrotoxic agents. There is conflicting data concerning whether early or late dialysis is harmful for the kidneys. No one has examined the physiological changes in the kidney when starting dialysis and which blood pressure that leads to most optimal physiological conditions for the kidneys during dialysis. In this descriptive study of 20 ICU patients suffering from AKI we aim to investigate renal physiology when starting continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and also at different target blood pressures using retrograde renal vein thermodilution technique. In parallel we will also investigate and validate this invasive method with contrast enhanced ultrasound of the kidneys.
The clinical investigation will be performed to generate clinical data on clearances and removal rates for ß2-microglobulin and other uremic toxins and on clinical adverse events of the modified polysulfone membrane to fulfil obligations to follow the FX P600 dialyzer in the market.
During open cardiac surgery, cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is used to temporarily replace the function of the heart and lungs. Renal ischemia resulting in acute kidney injury is common after cardiac surgery. The renal oxygenation is impaired during CPB, but the oxygenation may be improved by increasing the CPB blood flow. In this randomized study, two CPB flow rates will be compared regarding renal outcome (biomarkers and renal oxygenation/renal blood flow), as well as markers of inflammation and hemolysis. Additionally, urine oxygen tension will be measured during CPB and the early intensive care phase and compared to renal oxygenation. Regional oxygen saturation assessed with near infrared spectroscopy from the brain and kidneys will be monitored during and after surgery.
Tramadol is opioid analgesic widely used to treat moderate to severe pain. It is metabolized by cytochrome CYP2D6 into two major metabolites: pharmacologically active metabolite O-desmethyltramadol (M1) and inactive N-desmethyltramadol (M2), respectively. Tramadol kinetics in a population of patients undergoing major abdominal surgical procedures, and in patients with a greater or lesser degree of organic failure, is still not well researched. The investigators will measure plasma concentrations of tramadol and its metabolites after usual tramadol doses in ICU patients after major abdominal surgery. Also analgesic affect and side effect of tramadol will be recorded.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with accumulation of uremic toxins like p-cresyl sulfate and indoxyl sulfate that are associated of cardiovascular complication and perturbation of glucose metabolism. These toxins are produced by fermentation of protein by intestinal microbiota but the role of low protein diet and ketoanalogue supplementation on uremic toxins production and microbiota composition are unknown. Low protein diet supplemented with ketoanalogues is recommended inCKD patients to prevent progression of renal disease. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of uremic toxins concentration, microbiota composition and gut hormone involved in carbohydrate metabolism ( GLP-1, FGF19, bile acids) with low protein diet supplemented with ketoanalogues.
Background: Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D (1,25-OHD) as well as mineral bone metabolism modulators like sclerostin are thought to play an important role in in diabetic patients with chronic renal failure. The present study aimed to analyse the levels of serum sclerostin before and after hemodialysis which is a primary element of treatment in such combined disease states. Methods: Serum sclerostin concentrations were measured using a commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit with 56 individuals who 14 chronic hemodialysis patients with diabetes, 14 chronic hemodialysis patients with non-diabetes and 28 healthy volunteers as a control group.
Randomized Clinical Trial following the evaluation of the impact on renal function in patients undergoing endovascular aortic aneurysm repair with two anesthetics protocols (Desflurane versus Sevoflurane) on the first 24 hours after surgery.