Hypertension and nephrology - 2017;21(02)

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Hypertension and nephrology

APRIL 08, 2017

[Letter to our Readers]

KÉKES Ede, KISS István

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2017;21(02)

Hypertension and nephrology

APRIL 08, 2017

[Elderly patients with end-stage renal disease, its epidemiology and questions regarding it in Hungary]

SZEGEDI János, KISS István

[The number of elderly people and the kidney disease’s importance connected to it has increased worldwide, therefore the chronic kidney disease became an endemic. Parallel to the dwindling of population the people in it age. Because of the men’s higher mortality rate the proportion of women in the elderly is greater. Prognosis indicates that by 2060 every third citizen will be aged 65 or more. Between 1990 and 2015 the life expectancy at birth increased by 6.95 years in the case of men (in 1990... tovább »

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2017;21(02)

Hypertension and nephrology

APRIL 08, 2017

[First experiences with percutaneous renal denervation in management of resistant hypertension]

SCHULCZ Domonkos, NAGY Ferenc Tamás, THURY Attila, BAJCSI Dóra, FEJES Imola, LETOHA Annamária, CONSTANTINOU Kypros, UNGI Imre, ÁBRAHÁM György, LÉGRÁDY Péter

[Percutaneous transluminal radiofrequency renal denervation is a promising new therapeutic method for the treatment of primary resistant hypertension. The intervention decreases the systemic sympathetic over activation and thus arterial blood pressure. In the 1st Department of Medicine of the University of Szeged, 9 resistant hypertensive patients (2 male, 7 female; mean age: 55.0±4.0 years) had all the conditions were required for renal denervation at the time of interventions were performed.... tovább »

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2017;21(02)

Hypertension and nephrology

APRIL 08, 2017

[Efficacy of a fixed-dose association of amlodipine and lisinopril in grade II and III hypertensive patients]

JOÃO Maldonado, TEIMO Pereira, MARGARIDA Carvalho

[We conducted an observational study, with ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), to evaluate the efficacy of a fixed-dose combination of Amlodipine (5 mg) and Lisinopril (20 mg) in grade II and III hypertensive patients, over an 8 week intervention period. Thirty non-medicated hypertensive patients were enrolled, 36% female, with a mean age of 52.44±11.54 years, a body mass index of 28.73±4.54 kg/m2, and brachial office systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure of 174.43±15.06... tovább »

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2017;21(02)

Hypertension and nephrology

APRIL 08, 2017

[Metformin as an Antihypertensive?]

SIMONYI Gábor

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2017;21(02)

Hypertension and nephrology

APRIL 08, 2017

[How can we improve the chronic renal patient care?]

KULCSÁR Imre

[The author summarizes on the base of forty year’s experience in the field of Hungarian nephrological care, that which are the main developmental problems and possibilities in the clinical nephrology and in dialysis therapy in Hungary recently. There is a clear claim to change in the training of nephrological nurses and nephrologists, and it is very important the organized education of predialysis patients, improving capacity of outpatient nephrological care in his opinion. He recommends... tovább »

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2017;21(02)

Hypertension and nephrology

APRIL 08, 2017