Moon Jae Kim

..We hope the results of this study will be useful as the baseline data for the evaluation of hydration and nutritional status in healthy and ill adults, including end-stage renal disease (ESRD)...

..IVCD correlated significantly with post-HD BNP level. CONCLUSION: BNP level seems to have a limited potential for assessment of overhydration in HD patients...

..Further study on the dose-titration is mandatory in terms of safety and especially for maximizing renoprotection in this patient population...

..To date, there are no reports regarding the large scale adoption of these solutions in clinical practice and regarding what, if any, impact these solutions have on patient outcomes...

..It is unclear whether fluid is lost from each body segment in a similar manner during haemodialysis (HD) in normohydrated (NH) and overhydrated (OH) patients...

..Changes of leptin concentration were significantly correlated with the changes of peritoneal glucose absorption at PD1. In conclusion, continuous peritoneal glucose load may affect plasma leptin concentrations in CAPD patients...

..In conclusion, TBW(K2) provides better accuracy with a smaller bias than the TBW(W) or TBW(H) in males. TBW(K2) shows a similar accuracy, but with a smaller bias than TBW(W) in females...

..In the future, dialysate sodium should be optimized based on the exact prediction of the postdialysis plasma sodium levels...

..We suggest the discrimination of the underlying renal diseases in the study subjects is an important prerequisite for future studies on this issue...

..060-0.774, p=0.019). The HO-1 gene promoter length polymorphism was related to the renal impairment of IgA nephropathy at diagnosis, which is an important risk factor for mortality in IgA nephropathy patients...

..The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a method for predicting dry weight (DW) using these results...

..Recent experimental studies suggested IR to be a central mechanism for uraemic malnutrition. However, it is not known whether IR is related to muscle wasting in non-diabetic end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients...

..Equations are frequently used to estimate resting energy expenditure (REE) in a clinical setting. However, few studies have examined their accuracy in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients...

..The relationship of genetic polymorphisms of PLA2R with the susceptibility and clinical outcomes of this disease is unknown...

..In conclusion, prescription of ACEI or ARB in patients with GN does not increase cancer incidence and recipients of ARB show rather lower rates of all-cause mortality and cancer mortality...

..0 g/dL or more, with normotension, with eGFR 60 mL/min/1.73 m(2) or more, and with proteinuria less then 3+ by dipstick test. In conclusion, higher bilirubin level was negatively associated with ESRD incidence in IgA nephropathy...

..However, a renal biopsy revealed that there were no glomerular abnormalities and no deposition of immune complex. The generalized edema disappeared and the high creatinine levels decreased after prednisolone therapy...

..In vitro and early clinical studies suggest that these solutions are indeed more biocompatible but, as of now, there is no evidence that their use improves patient outcome...

..Therefore, it is proposed that sodium balance-neutral sodium profiling HD with UF profile is a better choice, ensuring the dialysis of quality without sodium gain-related complications...

..CONCLUSIONS: BW had a linear relationship with Ht(2) and might be predictable by the WHO class-specific equation using Ht(2). These equations might be useful as a crude indicator of DW in HD patients...

..Defining the optimal TAC(Na) for individual centers based on their protocols will be helpful to avoid sodium load and excessive weight gain...

..In conclusion, Korean HD patients seem to have small proportions of OW and OB, compared to the general population, and protein-calorie malnutrition may still be an important nutritional condition...