Background: Patients with End-stage renal disease (ESRD) who are dialysis-dependent have an elevated risk of peri-operative morbidity and mortality. There are many scoring tools that can help predict perioperative risk. Unfortunately, none were validated specifically for patients with ESRD. We aimed to compare the performance of the Revised cardiac risk (RCRI) and the AUB-HAS2 scores [...]

Case Presentation: Our patient is a 42-year-old male with history significant for hypertension, end stage renal disease (ESRD) on hemodialysis (HD), anemia of chronic disease, renal osteodystrophy, and right wrist calciphylaxis who presented with worsening right wrist erythema and bleeding. Patient had reported non-compliance with his dialysis schedule and noted to have multiple previous admissions [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 51 year old male with diabetes, peripheral arterial disease with extensive vascular surgeries including left below the knee amputation, ESRD on hemodialysis, multivessel coronary artery disease, history of seizures, who presented with altered mental status likely from missed dialysis. Patient was found to be afebrile, hypertensive to the 200s [...]