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SMJS Volume 1 Issue 1, Page 51 – Page 60
END STAGE RENAL DISEASE CASES SURVEY AMONG DIALYSIS PATIENTS IN TABUK CITY, KSA, 2019: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY
Hyder Mirghani Mohamed, Sultan Ali Alqabli, Saad Rashed Alghamdi, Amjad Mustafa M Altunusi, Khalid Fraih Alharbi, Mohammed Hussain Alzahib
Background: End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is highly prevalent globally. The objective of this study was to determine the associated factors for chronic renal failure, types of and period of renal dialysis, complications after starting dialysis and causes of missing dialysis session in Tabuk City, northern area of Saudi Arabia.
Methods: A cross sectional study. The participants were the patients with ESRD on hemodialysis in the hemodialysis centers of Tabuk Hospitals. This study has been reviewed and approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Faculty of Medicine, Tabuk University. Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows version 20.
Results: 45.1% aged >50 years, 29.2% aged 41-50 years and 3.1% aged 21 or less. 53.3% were males and 73.3% weren't working. 23.6% of patients were hypertensive, 26.7 were both hypertensive and diabetic, 15.4% were diabetic. 52.8% under hemodialysis, 46.7% under both hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis and only one case under peritoneal dialysis. Period of dialysis was >5 years in 32.8% of cases. Most (79.5%) of cases had complications after starting dialysis, as infection in 57.4% of cases, PE in 9.7%, infection and PE in 2.1%, MI in 2.6% and DKA in 2.1%. Causes of missing any dialysis session was depression in 10.8%, Travelling in 14.4% and Social Issues in 4.1%.
Conclusion: This study found that the main factors associated to ESRD in Tabuk, KSA were diabetes mellitus, hypertension and chronic kidney disease. Most of cases had complications such as infection, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction and diabetic ketoacidosis.
To cite this article: Mohamed HM, Alqabli SA, Alghamdi SR, Altunusi AMM, Alharbi KF, Alzahib MH. End Stage Renal Disease Cases Survey Among Dialysis Patients in Tabuk City, KSA, 2019 : a cross sectional study. Saudi Med J Students. 2020;1(1):51-60.
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