South West Sydney Local Health District Dr Tim Spicer is currently the director of renal medicine for South West Sydney Local Health District, encompassing Liverpool, Bankstown, Fairfield, Campbelltown and Bowral hospitals. Dr Spicer chose to stay on as a staff...
- 8 September 2020
C WILKINSON1, M MANTHA1, S DHEDA1 1Cairns Base Hospital (Queensland Health), Cairns, Australia Aim: To assess long-term outcome of thrombolysis plus balloon angioplasty of thrombosed fistulae. Background: A thrombosed AVA often necessitates an emergent central catheter to facilitate immediate haemodialysis and...
- 14 June 2018
D O’HARA1, H CHEIKH HASSAN1 1Wollongong Renal Department, Wollongong, Australia Background: Haemorrhagic complications of renal biopsy include perinephric haematoma formation in 11.6% of cases, macroscopic haematuria in 3.5% of cases, bladder outlet obstruction from blood clots in 0.3% of cases,...
- 13 June 2018
N SHAH1, A GOSWELL2, C CUESTA3, I KATZ3 1St George-Sutherland Basic Physician Training Network, Kogarah, Australia, 2St George Hospital, Kogarah, Australia, 3Department of Renal Medicine, St George Hospital, Kogarah, Australia Background: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an effective home-based form of...
- 8 June 2018
AN AUDIT OF POST-RENAL BIOPSY COMPLICATION RATE AND DIAGNOSTIC YIELD OF ALLOGRAFT AND NATIVE KIDNEYS
A KHAN1, B NANKIVELL1, A KHAN2, J CHAPMAN1 1Renal Medicine Department Westmead Hospital , Westmead , Australia, 2Storr Liver Center, Westmead Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Westmead , Australia Background/Aims: Real time ultrasound guided percutaneous kidney biopsy (PCKB) is...
- 8 June 2018
D FERNANDES1, C SAJIV1, B PAWAR1, S THOMAS1, S NAYAR1, P GEORGE1, J OLAPALLIL1, M HAMILTON1 1Alice Springs Hospital, Alice Springs, Australia The numbers of patients on hemodialysis (HD) is increasing exponentially in the Northern territory. Most of the patients...
- 8 June 2018
HA HAKIM1, S DHEDA1, V LEE1, D PRATT1, M MANTHA1 1Cairns Hospital, Cairns,, Australia Background: The success of peritoneal dialysis depends on a well-functioning peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter. Both open surgical or laparoscopic techniques that allow rectus sheath tunnelling, adhesiolysis...
- 8 June 2018
V WIJERATNE1, K MCNAMARRA1, S May1 1Tamworth Hospital, Tamworth, Australia Background: Many interventional Nephrologists will not place PD catheters in abdomens where there has been previous abdominal surgery.At Tamworth all patients wanting to do PD have catheters inserted by an...
- 8 June 2018