Dialysis and Its Management in Younger Age Children in Pakistan
Hira Amjad *
Fatima Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
Ifrah Sharif
Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
Eisha Fatima
Services Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Introduction: Pakistan is an agricultural nation that misses the mark on basic foundation to help ideal consideration of patients with ongoing kidney infection (CKD) and end-stage kidney sickness (ESKD).
Objectives: The basic aim of the study is to analyze the dialysis and its management in younger age children in Pakistan.
Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted at Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore during 2021. There were 40 children who was chosen for this review. The mean dialysis term was 2.18±1.36 years (range: 1-7 years). All patients were on dietary protein limitation, 1 g/kg body weight each day.
Results: We collected all the demographic data of patients. The data was collected from 200 participants (from OPD, medical wards, dialysis center and kidney transplant OPD). The analysis of the demographic data found reveals the following results regarding age, sex, educational and marital status of the respondents: The mean (SD) age of the participants is 43.95 (1.68) years among the participants.
Conclusion: The commonness of CKD would have been a lot higher than the outcome got by this review, had the exploration utilized current degree of creatinine.
Keywords: Chronic kidney disease, dialysis, kidney transplant