Albumina

PURPOSE: The study of online hemodiafiltration (HDF) benefits over high-flux hemodialysis (HD) raises great interest. The purpose was to compare clinical and laboratory parameters in patients treated with HD who were switched to HDF. METHODS: Forty-eight HD patients (study group) were switched to HDF, while other 521 patients remained on HD as a control group. During last 6 HD months and during first year of HDF, we determined in both groups the following parameters: monthly-weekly dialysis time, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), interdialytic body weight gain (IBWG), blood flow rate (Qb), weekly erythropoietin-stimulating agents dose (EPO), single-pool Kt/V, calcium, phosphorus (P), hemoglobin and normalized protein catabolic ration (nPCR), plus every 3 months--albumin, parathormone (PTH), ferritin and transferrin saturation (TSAT)...

OBJECTIVE: We investigated the effects of inflammatory and nutritional status on the association between serum albumin and mortality in hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. DESIGN AND PATIENTS: This was a prospective cohort study of incident dialysis patients starting HD or PD. Inflammation (C-reactive protein >or=5 or >or=10 mg/L), malnutrition (1 to 5 on the 7-point subjective global assessment [SGA]), and low protein intake (normalized protein equivalent of nitrogen appearance [nPNA] <0...