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Long-term hemodialysis for chronic renal failure first became possible with development of the Teflon shunt by Belding Scribner and coworkers at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1960. Over the next 4 years, many of the advances in dialysis occurred in Seattle. These included recognition and treatment of complications such as malignant hypertension, gouty episodes due to uric acid accumulation, subcutaneous calcification, anemia, iron overload, and peripheral neuropathy. Technical advances included improving the shunt, and in collaboration with Professor A.L. Babb, development of a proportioning system to make dialysate from concentrate and water and the first automated home hemodialysis machine. Dr. Boen and Dr. Tenckhoff developed automated peritoneal dialysis equipment and peritoneal access devices. The world's first outpatient dialysis center, the Seattle Artificial Kidney Center, was established in 1962, and used an anonymous lay committee to select from medically suitable patients those to be treated by the center. This triage was an important step in the development of biomedical ethics, and in 1964, Scribner's presidential address to the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs discussed the problems of patient selection, termination of treatment, patient suicide, death with dignity, and selection for transplantation.
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PMID:The early years of chronic dialysis: The Seattle contribution. 1021 42

India is amidst a demographic transition showing an ageing trend. This will increase non-communicable diseases including diabetes which is already showing an increasing trend. With scanty literature existing on elderly diabetics (> 60 years of age), it was decided to study the clinico-laboratory and complication profile of this group of patients. Fifty consecutive elderly diabetics were studied and evaluated for ECG, chest x-ray, blood sugar, urea, creatinine, lipid profile, proteinuria, motor nerve conduction velocity and autonomic neuropathy. Duration of diabetes varied from one month to 28 years. Fifty-six per cent of the patients presented with classical symptoms of polyuria, polyphagia and polydipsia. Hypertension was present in 40% and cataract in 54% of the patients. Eighteen per cent were obese, 52% had evidence of peripheral neuropathy while 56% had autonomic neuropathy. Background diabetic retinopathy was present in 56%, pre-proliferative retinopathy and maculopathy in 4% each; hypertensive retinopathy in 10% of patients; 44% had microproteinuria and 8% had chronic renal failure. Hypercholesterolaemia was present in 64% and hypertriglyceridaemia in 42% of the patients with 26% having coronary artery disease. Sixty per cent were harbouring infections--20% had foot infections, 14% had tuberculosis and 10% had urinary tract infections. Ninety-two per cent of the patients were aware of their disease but 62% were not aware of the complications and of the need for strict dietary and drug compliance. There was a high prevalence of associated diseases viz, osteoarthritis, cataract, hypertension, hepatitis and parkinsonism. Therefore, this study brings out the need to have a holistic and multidisciplinary approach for management of elderly diabetics who constitute a heterogeneous group with distinct health care problems.
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PMID:Clinical and laboratory profile of diabetes in elderly. 1065 95

Inhalant abuse is a major public health problem that has been associated with numerous acute and chronic medical problems. Inhalants are defined as volatile organic substances and are found in common household and commercial products that are easily accessible, inexpensive, and legally obtained. We discuss a rare case of mothball abuse predominantly by inhalation. The patient had acute peripheral neuropathy and chronic renal failure, both of which were concluded to be casually related to mothball abuse. We briefly review the abuse potential and medical complications of naphthalene and paradichlorobenzene, the compounds in mothballs. Our case illustrates that common household products not usually identified as recreational drugs can be abused; furthermore, linking specific medical problems with particular inhalants can be difficult because of confounding variables.
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PMID:Medical complications due to mothball abuse. 1079 15

The two main causes of metabolic neuropathies are successively diabetes and chronic renal insufficiency. Diabetic neuropathies include both diffuse polyneuropathies and focal neuropathies. Sensori(motor) polyneuropathy is the most frequent form and different therapeutic trials have been initiated on the ground of the vascular and metabolic factors implicated in its pathogenesis. Autonomic neuropathy is the major cause of morbidity and mortality. In patients with chronic renal failure, the polyneuropathy is improved by renal transplantation. The carpal tunnel syndrome is frequent in hemodialysis patients, and surgery gives the opportunity to look for beta-2-microglobulin amyloid deposits. Among the less frequent causes of peripheral neuropathies in which metabolic factors have been considered, we review hypoglycemia, chronic respiratory insufficiency due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic liver diseases, and the polyneuropathy occurring in the critically ill patients with nutritional or metabolic failures. In chronic excessive drinkers peripheral neuropathy is classically associated with thiamine deficiency, but the direct effect of alcohol itself has been discussed. Various vitaminic deficiencies have been responsible for the development of peripheral neuropathies. The clinical forms often associate peripheral neuropathy with myelopathy, and serum vitamin E concentrations should be measured in patients with spinocerebellar disorders. Usually nutritional deficiencies need multivitamins supplementation.
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PMID:[Metabolic and nutritional neuropathies]. 1085 52

In a prospective controlled study, 32 patient with chronic renal failure (CRF) and 11 healthy volunteers were evaluated for solid gastric emptying at our institute over a period of 2 years. The study sought to identify the incidence of abnormal gastric emptying in these patients, the factors influencing the development of abnormal gastric emptying and whether gastrointestinal symptoms correlated with abnormal gastric emptying. The efficacy of prokinetic drugs Cisapride and Erythromycin in improving delayed gastric emptying in these patients with CRF was also compared and evaluated. We observed delayed gastric emptying in 69% of our patients. About 50% of our patients with delayed gastric emptying had no gastrointestinal symptoms suggesting a poor correlation between the two. Delayed gastric emptying was observed frequently in patients with peripheral neuropathy and/or autonomic neuropathy. Gastric emptying in CRF appears to be independent of age, sex, duration of disease, BUN, creatinine and H. phylori infection. Oral Cisapride and Erythromcin are effective gastrokinetic agents in these patients. Identification of delayed gastric emptying in patients with CRF and treatment with these drugs may reduce gastrointestinal symptom related morbidity.
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PMID:A study of gastric emptying in chronic renal failure. 1122 78

The chronic renal failure patient with diabetes has a lower limb amputation rate 10 times greater than the diabetic population at large. In studies of causal pathways leading to non-traumatic related lower extremity amputation, foot ulcers preceded approximately 84% of the amputations. Even though foot ulcers are more likely to develop in patients with diabetic nephropathy, they are no less likely to heal than are those in diabetic patients with normal renal function. Consequently, attempts to save the diabetic foot even in this high-risk population are justified. The pathogenesis of foot ulceration in the chronic renal failure patient with diabetes is primarily due to peripheral neuropathy. Loss of protective sensation due to sensory neuropathy combined with motor and autonomic neuropathy and macrovascular compromise result in increased risk for foot complications. Evaluation of the foot includes a selective history and a focused examination of skin integrity, presence of sensory neuropathy or vascular insufficiency, and biomechanical and footwear inspection. Effective treatment of diabetic foot complications include appropriate antibiotics (when indicated), meticulous wound care, off-loading, vascular surgery (when indicated), and selective/elective or prophylactic nonvascular surgery. Failure to heal an ulcer can often be traced to common pitfalls, which include: A "cavalier" attitude. W.N.L. exam (We Never Looked). Inadequate off-loading. Failure to establish depth of ulcer and miss "probe to bone." Non-healing means unrelieved pressure and/or no blood. Failure to correct edema. The multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic model provides an ideal setting for early intervention, treatment, and assistance with preventive strategies.
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PMID:Saving the diabetic foot with special reference to the patient with chronic renal failure. 1157 Jan 48

The administration of multivitamins to patients receiving home parenteral nutrition (HPN) was decreased from once daily to three times weekly during the parenteral multivitamin shortage in 1997. Blood vitamin levels were measured to examine whether the decrement in the infused vitamins affected the levels. Six patients with normal renal and liver function, receiving HPN for 6 months to 10 years, were studied 6 months after the institution of 10 mL of multivitamins thrice weekly. Two patients with renal insufficiency who required hemodialysis and HPN were also studied. Multivitamin administration was eliminated in one patient and was reduced to once weekly when elevated pyridoxine levels were found in association with possible neurotoxicity. Five of the six patients with normal renal function had low serum ascorbic acid levels. Serum riboflavin levels were found to be low in one patient, serum pyridoxine was low in one, serum retinoids were low in three, and serum niacin was low in one. There were no clinically obvious untoward effects caused by the vitamin deficiencies. Each of the dialysis patients had elevated serum pyridoxine levels and had some neurologic disturbance (peripheral neuropathy, involuntary movements). The serum pyridoxine levels fell to normal in each after the cessation or decrease of the multivitamin preparation. Ascorbic acid levels were low in one patient and fell into abnormally low levels in the other when the parenteral multivitamins were reduced, but they corrected with the separate administration of intravenous vitamin C. In conclusion, the reduced administration of multivitamins in 1997 resulted in diminished ascorbic acid levels in seven of eight patients receiving total parenteral nutrition. Less often, low levels of retinoids, niacin, pyridoxine, and riboflavin were seen. Patients with chronic renal failure receiving HPN with multivitamins may develop elevated pyridoxine levels, which might result in neurologic sequelae.
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PMID:Abnormal vitamin levels in patients receiving home total parenteral nutrition. 1160 56

This study analyses the blink reflex in 20 adult male patients with terminal chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis. Abnormalities were found in ten patients (50%), eight of them with conduction studies showing axonal peripheral neuropathy. Dialysis time was longer for patients with blink reflex alterations (median 55.1 months) than for patients with normal blink reflex (median 36.3 months). Different types of early R1 and late R2 component abnormalities were recorded. The late response abnormalities may indicate subclinical functional or anatomical impairment of the low brainstem reticular formation in patients with chronic renal failure.
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PMID:Blink reflex in end-stage-renal disease patients undergoing hemodialysis. 1195 88

Silent period was evaluated in 20 adult male patients with chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis. Readings were obtained by supramaximal stimulus to the median nerve, during maximum isometric effort of the abductor pollicis brevis muscle against resistance. Two types of abnormalities were observed, motor neuron hypoexcitability with elongated silent period, and motor neuron hyperexcitability with reduction or absence of silent period. Some abnormalities are probably linked with dialysis duration, but show no correlation to presence or absence of peripheral neuropathy. The silent period alterations described in this study could possibly correlate with some other clinical feature frequently seen in patients with chronic renal failure such as hypereflexia of the deep tendon reflexes.
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PMID:The silent period in patients with chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis. 1216 48

In chronic renal failure, peripheral neuropathy although is well recognised but there are only a few studies on the evaluation of central sensory pathways and none on central motor pathways. This study is aimed at the evaluation of peripheral and central sensory motor pathways. In this prospective hospital based study, 19 patients with chronic renal failure on regular hemodialysis were included. They were subjected to detailed clinical evaluation and blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, serum protein, haemoglobin and vasculitic profile were carried out in all the patients. Peroneal motor conduction, sural sensory conduction, tibial somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) and motor evoked potential to tibialis anterior (CMCT-TA) were carried out in all the patients and the results correlated with clinical and biochemical parameters. The mean age of the patients was 34.6 y and 1 of them was female. The duration of renal failure ranged between 0.3 and 5 years. Nerve conduction studies were abnormal in 12 patients of whom sural nerve conduction was abnormal in 10 and peroneal in 8 patients. Central conduction, motor or sensory or both were abnormal in 5 patients. Central motor conduction time to tibialis anterior was marginally prolonged in 3 patients and tibial SEPs were recordable in 2 and prolonged in 1 patient. The central and peripheral conduction did not correlate with duration of illness, serum creatinine and hemoglobin levels. It is concluded that central pathways are less frequently and less severely affected than the peripheral in chronic renal failure.
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PMID:Central sensory motor pathways are less affected than peripheral in chronic renal failure. 1500 18


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