Author: Commerciale Labirinto

10 Jan

Posted at 11:16h in Case Study by

Silver dressings with an antimicrobial action can be used as a barrier against microorganisms in wounds that have a high risk of infection or re-infection. We used photographic monitoring to observe the development of some complications that occurred in patients using the FAV (AterioVenous Fistula) buttonhole method. The critical issues were treated, until they were completely resolved, using an ionic silver dressing placed at the needle insertion points at the end of the dialysis treatment. READ MORE...

10 Jan

Posted at 11:03h in Education by

Edited by: Dr. Maurizio Alberto Gallieni, Associate Professor of Nephrology at the University of Milan. Since 2018 Director of the Complex Operational Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis of the ASST (Local healthcare area) Fatebenefratelli Sacco of Milan. Author of over 200 scientific publications, indexed in the PubMed database of the National Library of Medicine. He is a member of various Scientific Societies, also has coordination positions and is the Editor for Italian and foreign journals of Nephrology. In another article by Prof. Gallieni, we talked about venous vascular accesses and the diseases for which they are carried out. CVCs are delicate points...

10 Jan

Posted at 11:00h in Education by

Edited by: Dr. Matthias Rudolf Hermann Zeiler, since 2004 Medical Director of the Nephrology and Dialysis Unit of the Carlo Urbani Hospital in Jesi in the Marche region, with a managerial role in coordinating clinical research activities since 2008. Member of the Italian Society of Nephrology and the Gesellschaft für Nephrologie (German Society of Nephrology) and reviewer for the Peritoneal Dialysis International, Clinics and Practice and Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation journals. WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT HOME DIALYSIS, WE REFER TO TWO TYPES OF DIALYSIS: HOME HAEMODIALYSIS AND PERITONEAL DIALYSIS.   In this guide, Dr. Zeiler summarizes the characteristics that are common to both types...

10 Jan

Posted at 10:58h in Stories by

“My relationship with kidney disease started at the prime of my life in my twenties". This is how Serena’s story began, a young woman, a mother, who was diagnosed with immunological glomerulonephritis: her immune system no-longer recognizes her kidneys and tries to reject them. Today, Serena talks about her kidney disease from the blog she started to share her experience with others, to exchange information, suggestions and to share feelings. Because "together is better", says Serena, and fortunately she had her family and her husband always by her side. After the initial treatment based on cortisone and immunosuppressants, which changed her physically, in...