A Clinical, Demographic and Laboratory Study of End Stage Renal Disease at Ain Shams University Hospital. A Five Year Retrospective Study.

Abstract

End stage renal disease (ESRD) has become a worldwide health concern. In developed countries there is electronic data registry which allows easy statistical analysis and determination of the size of the problem for future planes. In developing countries there is no data registry and only scare data were available about epidemiology of dialysis patients. The aim of this work is to study the clinical, laboratory and demographic data of the patients with ESRD at time of diagnosis and to demonstrate the trend of the prevalence of different etiological factors in Ain Shams University hospital between January 2005 and December 2009. All patients diagnosed as ESRD at Ain Shams University hospital between January 2005 and December 2009 were included in this study and their data were collected from the hospital renal unit registry including (age, sex, residence, special habits of medical importance, co-morbid conditions, family history, presumed cause of ESRD, pelvi-abdominal ultrasonographic findings, serum creatinine, blood urea nitrogen at onset of dialysis, Hbs Ag, HCV Ab, HIV Ab at onset of dialysis & the modality of renal replacement therapy used at onset of dialysis)