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BACKGROUND: In dialysis sessions, some data suggest that decreasing or even avoiding additional anticoagulation by heparin is possible among patients already treated with oral anticoagulation. However, the required dose of heparin may actually depend on the pre-dialysis international normalized ratio (INR), which varies from one session to another. The aim of our study was to determine the respective role of INR and heparin dosing in the risk of circuit clotting during chronic haemodialysis. METHODS: From early 2012 to July 2016, we analysed the totality of dialysis sessions performed at Brest University Hospital among haemodialysis patients treated by vitamin K antagonists (VKA). We established a prediction of circuit clotting on the basis of a simplified score obtained by combining INR and heparin dosing. RESULTS: In total, 7184 dialysis sessions among chronic haemodialysis patients under VKA were identified, including 233 with clotting events. The mean INR without clotting events was 2.5 versus 1.8 with clotting events (P < 0.001). Frequencies of circuit clotting were different according to INR group (INR <2.0, INR 2.0-3.0, INR >3.0; P < 0.0001). The protective role of VKA was higher than heparin, as shown by discriminant factor analysis (P < 0.0001). Conclusion. Our study established a predictive model of thrombosis risk of dialysis circuits in patients treated by VKA for a given heparin dose and a given INR. This model shows a marginal contribution of heparin to protect against the risk of thrombosis compared with VKA. Moreover, heparin would not appear to be necessary for patients with an INR >2.2.
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In France, diabetes mellitus is now the second cause of end stage renal disease. In a large previous French national study, we observed that dialyzed diabetics have a significant lower risk of death by cancer. This first study was focused on cancer death but did not investigate cancer incidence. In this context, the aim of this second study was to compare the incidence of cancer in diabetic dialyzed patients compared to non-diabetic dialyzed patients in a French region. METHODS: This epidemiologic multicentric study included 588 diabetic and non-diabetic patients starting hemodialysis between 2002 and 2007 in Bretagne. Data were issued from REIN registry and cancer incidence were individually collected from medical records. Diabetics and non-diabetics were matched one by one on age, sex and year of dialysis initiation. RESULTS: During the follow-up, we observed 28 cancers (9.4%) in diabetic patients and 26 cancers (8.9%) in non-diabetics patients. The cumulative incidence to develop a cancer 2 years after the dialysis start was approximately 6% in both diabetics and non-diabetics patients. In univariate Fine and Gray analysis, BMI, hemoglobin, statin use had P-value<0.2. However, in the adjusted model, these variables were not significantly associated with cancer incidence. CONCLUSION: This study lead on a little number of dialyzed patients did not show any significant difference on cancer incidence between diabetic and non-diabetic patients after hemodialysis start.