Nephrology

Discrimination of driver and passenger mutations in epidermal growth factor receptor in cancer.

Cancer is one of the most life-threatening diseases and mutations in several genes are the vital cau...

Exposure to Aroclor-1254 impairs spindle assembly during mouse oocyte maturation.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), as typical environmental estrogen disruptors, are a structurally-r...

Using local lexicalized rules to identify heart disease risk factors in clinical notes.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death globally and a significant part of the human population ...

Myocardial function in Saudi adolescents with vitamin D deficiency: Tissue Doppler imaging study.

Vitamin D deficiency is a common health problem in Saudi Arabia especially in children and adolescen...

Understanding safety-critical interactions with a home medical device through Distributed Cognition.

As healthcare shifts from the hospital to the home, it is becoming increasingly important to underst...

Lack of association between anemia and renal disease progression in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.

AIMS/INTRODUCTION: Anemia has a close interaction with renal dysfunction in diabetes patients. More ...

Biofertilizer and biostimulant properties of the microalga .

Microalgae represent a potential sustainable alternative for the enhancement and protection of agric...

Can Serum Gdf-15 be Associated with Functional Iron Deficiency in Hemodialysis Patients?

Functional iron deficiency (FID) incidence is gradually increasing in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Re...

Re: Robot-Assisted Surgery for Kidney Cancer Increased Access to a Procedure that can Reduce Mortality and Renal Failure.

Simple enucleation for the treatment of highly complex renal tumors: Perioperative, functional and oncological results.

AIM: To assess the role of simple enucleation (SE) for the treatment of highly complex renal tumors.

Types of vicarious learning experienced by pre-dialysis patients.

OBJECTIVE: Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis renal replacement treatment options are in clinical...

Re: Robotic Trans-Abdominal Transplant Nephrectomy for a Failed Renal Allograft.

Generating a focused view of disease ontology cancer terms for pan-cancer data integration and analysis.

Bio-ontologies provide terminologies for the scientific community to describe biomedical entities in...

Usage of neural network to predict aluminium oxide layer thickness.

This paper shows an influence of chemical composition of used electrolyte, such as amount of sulphur...

A new machine learning approach for predicting the response to anemia treatment in a large cohort of End Stage Renal Disease patients undergoing dialysis.

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) anemia is one of the main common comorbidities in patients undergoing E...

Long-term effectiveness of agalsidase alfa enzyme replacement in Fabry disease: A Fabry Outcome Survey analysis.

Outcomes from 5 years of treatment with agalsidase alfa enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for Fabry d...

IgA nephropathy in systemic lupus erythematosus patients: case report and literature review.

Systemic erythematosus lupus (SLE) is a multisystemic autoimmune disease which has nephritis as one ...

Should post-kidney transplant patients with localized prostate cancer be undergoing robotic radical prostatectomy?

Serum tests, liver stiffness and artificial neural networks for diagnosing cirrhosis and portal hypertension.

BACKGROUND: The diagnostic performance of biochemical scores and artificial neural network models fo...

PhenoMiner: a quantitative phenotype database for the laboratory rat, Rattus norvegicus. Application in hypertension and renal disease.

Rats have been used extensively as animal models to study physiological and pathological processes i...

Perioperative and long-term renal functional outcomes of robotic versus laparoscopic partial nephrectomy: a multicenter matched-pair comparison.

PURPOSE: We compared perioperative and long-term renal functional outcomes of robot-assisted partial...