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SUBSTANDARD DIETARY PRACTICES IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS

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Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH)- 2020 Dasanayake DRTS 1, Pathiranage AMSD 1, Basnayake BMDB2, Aththanayake AMIS2, Samarakoon HT2, Nanayakkara N2 1Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 2National hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka Introduction and objectives-Individual nutritional practices adhering to general dietary recommendations are decisive in long term Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal […]

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Case report: Oral manifestations of systemic amyloidosis, an aid to diagnosis of multiple myeloma – report of two cases. Published in Brazilian Journal of Otolaryngology Jan 2021

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D.W.V.N. Dissanayakaa, H.M.M.R. Bandara b, T. Sabesanb, Y.S. Mohomed b, B.S.M.S. Siriwardenaa,∗ a Department of Oral Pathology, Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka b Ministry of Health   Abstract Background: Amyloidosis is the term applied to a diverse group of disorders that share the features of deposition of amorphous, extracellular material at

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RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN (RBP4) AS A URINARY MARKER OF SEVERITY IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE OF UNCERTAIN ETIOLOGY

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Fernando,W.B.N.T1.,Hettiarachchi, T.W1., Hemage,R1., Sudeshika S.H.T1., Badurdeen, M.Z1., Nanayakkara, N2* 1Centre for Education, Research and Training on Kidney Diseases (CERTKiD), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 2Transplant and Dialysis Unit, Teaching Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka   Background: RBP4 is a low molecular weight protein that is mainly synthesized in the liver belonging to the

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Covid-19

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චීනයේ වුහාන් නුවරින් COVID රෝගය සම්බන්ධ මුලික වාර්තා ප්‍රකාශ වී ඉතා කෙටි කලකදී මෙම රෝගය ලෝක වසංගත තත්වයක් දක්වා ව්‍යාප්ත විය හැකි බවට අනතුරු අගවීම විමතිය දනවන සුළු විය. එහෙත් එම අනතුරු ඇගවීම් සනාථ කරමින් පළමුව කොරියාවට හා යුරෝපයටත් දෙවනුව ඇමෙරිකාව, බ්‍රසිලය ,  ඉන්දියාව ඇතුළු මුළු ලෝකයටමත් ව්‍යාප්ත විය. රෝගය සදහා අවසාන පිළියම එන්නතක් හෝ

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COVID-19 infection in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: Data from the Asia Pacific Lupus Collaboration

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As COVID-19 ravages healthcare systems worldwide, cases of infection among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are increasingly reported. While there had been 2 reports on incident hospitalized cases from the US and France,1,2 there have been no reports of SLE patients with COVID-19 infection from the Asia Pacific region. The Asia Pacific Lupus Collaboration

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Maternal and fetal outcomes in pregnant patients with lupus nephritis

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Basnayake BMDB1, Wazil AWM1, Nanayakkara N1, Deepani AAR1, Chathurani MMI1, Thennakoon TDK1, Wijayawickrama BA1, Nayanamali MAA1, Devagiri DMSDK1 1Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplant, National Hospital Kandy, Sri Lanka Background: Pregnancy in a woman with lupus nephritis (LN) carries a high risk of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Aim of this study is to

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Evaluation of biochemical profile of Chronic Kidney Disease of uncertain etiology in Sri Lanka

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Buddhi N. T. W. Fernando1, Thilini S. H. Sudeshika2, Thilini W. Hettiarachchi3, Zeid Badurdeen3, Thilak D. J. Abeysekara3, Hemalika T. K. Abeysundara4, Sakunthala Jayasinghe5, Shirani Ranasighe6, Nishantha Nanayakkara7 1 Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka, 2 Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University

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Health literacy, knowledge and patient satisfaction among haemodialysis patients attending to Emergency Dialysis Unit, National Hospital, Kandy

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APACPH Conference 2020 Hemodialysis (HD) Patients’ non-adherence to therapeutic recommendations and treatment satisfaction was determined by multidimensional factors and it has been recognized as foremost determinant of quality of life of a patient. Thus main purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and treatment satisfaction of the patients undergoing HD treatment in Emergency

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Snap shot view on anaemia in chronic kidney disease of uncertain aetiology

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WARNAKULASURIYA BNT FERNANDO,1 THILINI W HETTIARACHCHI,1 THILINI SUDESHIKA,2 ZEID BADURDEEN,1 HEMALIKA ABEYSUNDARA,3 SHIRANI RANASINGHE,4 MANEL P RATHNAYAKE5 and NISHANTHA NANAYAKKARA6 1 Centre for Education, Research and Training on Kidney Diseases (CERTKiD), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, 2Department of Pharmacy, Facultyof Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya, 3Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Faculty of

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Serum and urine fluoride levels in populations of high environmental fluoride exposure with endemic CKDu: a case–control study from Sri Lanka

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W. B. N. T. Fernando1 . Nishantha Nanayakkara 2. Lishanthe Gunarathne3, Rohana Chandrajith4 1Centre for Education, Research and Training on Kidney Diseases (CERTKiD), Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 2Transplant and Dialysis Unit, Teaching Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka 3Base Hospital, Girandurukotte, Sri Lanka 4Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya,

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