According to the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey questionnaire developers, a global
measure of health-related quality of life such as the “SF-36 Total/Global/Overall Score” …

Carnitine is a naturally occurring amino acid derivative that is involved in the transport of
long-chain fatty acids to the mitochondrial matrix. There, these substrates undergo β …

Comparing the outcomes among dialysis patients across countries is a formidable
undertaking. Even with the existence of national dialysis registries, differences in case …

Background and aim l-carnitine has an important role in fatty acid metabolism and could
therefore act as an adjuvant agent in the improvement of dyslipidemia. The purpose of …

Background: A previous meta-analysis indicated that l-carnitine significantly increased
hemoglobin and decreased the required erythropoietin dose in maintenance hemodialysis …

BACKGROUND: l-Carnitine is an endogenous compound thought to be helpful in treating
patients with dialysis-related hypotension and muscle cramps; however, sufficient evidence …

In patients on maintenance hemodialysis several factors reduce the body stored carnitine
which could lead to dyslipidemia, anemia, and general health in these patients. We …

Background Dialysis patients have been shown to have low serum carnitine due to poor
nutrition, deprivation of endogenous synthesis from kidneys, and removal by hemodialysis …

Background l-Carnitine has been used as adjuvant therapy in hemodialysis (HD) patients for
many years. However, there is controversy whether l-carnitine supplementation is beneficial …

Background Fine definition of targeted CD8+ T-cell epitopes and their human leucocyte
antigen (HLA) class I restriction informs iterative improvements of HIV-1 T-cell vaccine …