Marcelo Tavares

4 Questions 5 Answers 0 Followers

Questions related from Marcelo Tavares

How can a surgeon prepare a VACTERL association patient for kidney transplantation?

Children with VACTERL association (vertebral defects, anal atresia, cardiac defects, tracheoesophageal fistula with atresia, renal defects/radial limb dysplasia) often progress to ESRD, many of...

27 May 2014 7,790 2 View

Kidney transplantation and anti-coagulation/thrombofilia?

Thrombofilia is a state related to genetic abnormalities (mutations related to protein S, protein C and so on) but also an acquired status linked to CKD. Thrombus formation and the use of...

07 May 2013 3,433 4 View

Posterior reversible encephalopathy and hemodialysis

PRES and hemodialysis is uncommon in children on hemodialysis . How can we improve treatment? If seizures occur, what drugs are of choice?

08 December 2012 445 1 View

Estimation of dry weight in children on hemodialysis: any mathematical model with clinical predictors/variables?

A difficult task is to estimate the dry weight of children on HD. Many tools are available, but not for every HD centers, i.e., evaluation of the diameter of inferior vena cava with US (pre and...

07 July 2012 1,234 14 View