Abstract The National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative
(KDOQI) has provided evidence-based guidelines for all stages of chronic kidney disease …

Vascular access complications are the greatest cause of morbidity in hemodialysis patients
in the United States. Although arteriovenous fistulas have been recommended as the …

The original formula proposed to estimate variable-volume single-pool (VVSP) Kt/V was
Kt/V=-In (R-0.008* tf* UF/W), where in the Kt/V range of 0.7 to 1.3, f= 1.0 (* denotes …

Although computer solution of the differential equations used in urea kinetic modeling has its
advantages, simplified formulas that are actually approximate algebraic solutions to the …

Comparison of methods to predict equilibrated Kt/V in the HEMO Pilot Study. The ongoing
HEMO Study, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored multicenter trial to test the …

This book is an evidence-based review of the practical challenges of dealing with patients
receiving dialysis. The first section covers technical and procedural considerations such as …

The relationship between vascular access recirculation and access blood flow has been
obscured by measurement techniques that overestimate recirculation. We measured …

Discussion DR. THOMAS A. DEPNER (Medical Director of Dialysis Ser-vices, and Professor
of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of California at Davis, Sacramento …

Practical application of urea kinetic modeling to measure the delivered dose of hemodialysis
is hampered by lack of a reference or gold-standard program that would be widely available …

The arteriovenous fistula (AVF) has been a mainstay of hemodialysis treatments and the
preferred access route since its inception in the 1960s, due to its longevity and resistance to …