… study examines the spectrum of infections in a selected population of patients requiring
long-term dialysis, enlarging the focus beyond infections associated with the dialysis process. …

… mortality of infections in patients on long-term dialysis. This article will review the literature,
both clinical and laboratory relating to infection as a long-term complication of dialysis therapy…

… duration of dialysis treatment influences the rate of infection-related … long-term dialysis (hemodialysis
or peritoneal dialysis) between 2001 and 2007. We evaluated rates of infection-…

… The patients in the dialysis centers are relatively dense and mobile, and … patients with uremia
who require long-term hemodialysis makes it more difficult to prevent and control infectious …

… The prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in this population is unclear, … dialysis
(PD). This study investigated the prevalence of LTBI in patients receiving either hemodialysis (…

… large cohort of patients maintained on long-term PD who have … repetitive patterns of infections
within each patient's history. The … Showing that patients with recurrent infections who have …

… We defined patients who were undergoing long-term dialysis … for nonacute dialysis, even if
within 30 days of starting dialysis. … infections diagnosed among patients undergoing long-term …

… infection before and during long-term dialysis treatment. … in dialysis units in which the
prevalence of HCV infection was … (2.22) for patients entering long-term dialysis treatment in July …

… Our usual practice is to promptly remove any infected hemodialysis access because of the
recognized high risk of complications related to bacteremia.6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 21, 22 However, in …

… dialysis, that is, those patients who permanently transferred to hemodialysis or died prior to 4
years of peritoneal dialysis, … the infection rates would be lower in the long-term patients and …