Title: Coexisting unknown diseases with chronic renal failure

Biography:

Marilena koukou has completed her PhD at the age of 34 years from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Medicine. She worked like Medical Science Liaison & Tender Manager

Abstract

We made an assessment of the situation of Hemodialysis (HD) patients in the period of economic crisis compared to international data through the recording of demographic characteristics.  Our sample consists of 2,586 subjects undergoing HD (27% of patients in HD), with the most common cause of end-stage renal disease for patients undergoing HD is the "unknown cause" with 33.02%. Similar is the situation in Spain (30.3%), Italy (30.3%), Hungary (41.7%), Poland (25.8%) and Portugal (28.1%). The mean age was determined at 68.7 ± 14.1 years (63.7% men) and 66.3 ± 13.2 years (49.4% men) for the Czech Republic up to 68.9 ± 15 years (58 , 8% men) for France. We noticed that patients with "unknown cause" are following an ESRD patient in HD. In their dossier, drugs such as,epoetin alfa, IV iron therary, levocarnitine, vitamins, clopidogrel and hydrochloride. At the same time, there is no mention of another co-existing disease, such as fabry disease, which could have led the patient either to hemodialysis or to cause a worsening of the dementia of patients on hemodialysis.