Causes of chronic renal failure in hemodialysis patients of Abadan

Treatmant of chronic renal failure by permanent hemodialysis, in addition to high costs for society, has many physical and psychological problems for patients. The present study was carried out to investigate the most important causes of this failure in hemodialysis patients of Abadan.

In this cross-sectional study, all 59 patients under permanent hemodialysis during March 6, 2005 to April 6, 2006 in Abadan’s hemodialysis center were evaluated. Required data including age, gender, age of first hemodialysis session, causes of chronic renal failure and dialysis-related variables were collected by checklist from patient’s file and interview as needed.

Hypertension (40.4%), diabetes mellitus (28.1%), infections (12.3%), congenital abnormalities (10.5%) and obstructions (8.8%) were the most common causes of chronic renal failure. Also, 5.3% of cases were causes including glomerulonephritis (3.5%) and lupus (1.8%).

Hypertension is the most cause of end stage renal disease in Abadan and diabetes mellitus and infections are the next.