Nephrology

Managing Drug Interactions in Cancer Therapy: A Guide for the Advanced Practitioner.

Mrs. P is a 30-year-old woman who presented to our bone marrow transplant program with myelodysplast...

Interstitial inflammation and interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy predict renal survival in lupus nephritis.

BACKGROUND: This study examines the effect of interstitial inflammation and interstitial fibrosis an...

Investigating the antifungal activity and mechanism of a microbial pesticide Shenqinmycin against Phoma sp.

Tea white scab (TWS) is a major disease affecting tea trees in mid-elevation regions and often occur...

A Machine Learning Approach Using Survival Statistics to Predict Graft Survival in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Cohort Study.

Accurate prediction of graft survival after kidney transplant is limited by the complexity and heter...

An efficient method for kidney allocation problem: a credibility-based fuzzy common weights data envelopment analysis approach.

Given the perennial imbalance and chronic scarcity between the demand for and supply of available or...

Re: Selective Arterial Clamping Does Not Improve Outcomes in Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy: A Propensity-Score Analysis of Patients without Impaired Renal Function.

The relationship between kidney function and quality of life among community-dwelling adults varies by age and filtration marker.

BACKGROUND: The impact of a diminished level of kidney function on the well-being of an older indivi...

Pressure-related flow rates for continuous renal replacement therapy in very small children: an in vitro study.

OBJECTIVE: Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is extremely challenging in very small childr...

A scheme based on ICD-10 diagnoses and drug prescriptions to stage chronic kidney disease severity in healthcare administrative records.

BACKGROUND: Information about renal function is important for drug safety studies using administrati...

Patterns of progression of chronic kidney disease at later stages.

BACKGROUND: At later stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD), a pattern of linear and irreversible re...

Cardiovascular risk of circulating endotoxin level in prevalent hemodialysis patients.

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients ...

Intra-Abdominal Cooling System Limits Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury During Robot-Assisted Renal Transplantation.

Robot-assisted kidney transplantation is feasible; however, concerns have been raised about possible...

Quality of care and practice patterns in anaemia management at specialist kidney clinics in Ireland: a national study.

BACKGROUND: Although anaemia is a common complication of advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), know...

Renal recovery after severe acute kidney injury in critically ill myeloma patients: a retrospective study.

BACKGROUND: Despite substantial improvements in the management of multiple myeloma, renal failure re...

Synthesis and Biological Evaluations of Ring Substituted Tetrahydroisoquinolines (THIQs) as Anti-Breast Cancer Agents.

Breast cancer is a leading cause of mortality among women, resulting in more than half a million dea...

Extended-release calcifediol for secondary hyperparathyroidism in stage 3-4 chronic kidney disease.

Extended-release calcifediol (ERC) 30 µg capsules were recently approved as Rayaldee® by the United ...

A Novel Case of Somatic Mutation in Pediatric-Onset Aldosterone-Producing Adenoma.

Aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA), a subtype of primary aldosteronism, is a common cause of second...

Editorial Comment to Robot-assisted laparoscopic versus open partial nephrectomy in patients with chronic kidney disease: A propensity score-matched comparative analysis of surgical outcomes.

Complications of Endovascular Aneurysm Repair: Mortality, Myocardial Infarction and Acute Kidney Injury.

OBJECTIVE: Patients undergoing endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) have comorbidities that increase ...

Prediction of marker genes associated with hypertension by bioinformatics analyses.

This study aimed to explore the underlying marker genes associated with hypertension by bioinformati...

Automatic Segmentation of Kidneys using Deep Learning for Total Kidney Volume Quantification in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is the most common inherited disorder of the ki...