Nephrology

Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Comparing a Novel Equation With Commonly Used Equations in this Population.

BACKGROUND: Assessment of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is important in kidney transplantation. The aim was to develop a kidney transplant specific equation for estimating GFR and evaluate against published equations commonly used for GFR estimation in these patients.

Fast segmentation of kidney components using random forests and ferns.

PURPOSE: This paper studies the feasibility of developing a fast and accurate automatic kidney component segmentation method. The proposed method segments the kidney into four components: renal cortex, renal column, renal medulla, and renal pelvis.

Eight Weeks of Ledipasvir/Sofosbuvir in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Hepatitis C Genotype 1 Infection.

Short treatment duration of ledipasvir/sofosbuvir (LDV/SOF) has been successfully used to treat hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection in treatm...

Accuracy of glomerular filtration rate estimationequations in patients with hematopathy.

Renal dysfunction is a common side-effect of chemotherapeuticagents in patients with hematopathy. Although broadly used, glomerularfiltration rate (GF...

Lupus pneumonitis presenting with high titre of anti-Ro antibody.

Lupus pneumonitis carries high mortality and is a rare manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, it is difficult to diagnose and i...

[Assessment of diet in patients with chronic kidney diseases without dialysis and relationship with the nutritional status].

BACKGROUND: Diet is one of the pillars of the treatment for patients with chronic kidney disease without dialysis (NDD-CKD). Despite this, very few st...

First Ever Use of Proton Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Delivered with Curative Intent to Bilateral Synchronous Primary Renal Cell Carcinomas.

Limited therapeutic options exist for inoperable bilateral kidney tumors. We report the first ever use of proton therapy to treat primary renal cell c...

A new machine-learning method to prognosticate paraquat poisoned patients by combining coagulation, liver, and kidney indices.

The prognosis of paraquat (PQ) poisoning is highly correlated to plasma PQ concentration, which has been identified as the most important index in PQ ...

Loculated transudative pleural effusion masquerading as right upper lobe consolidation in a haemodialysis patient.

Pleural effusion is a common encounter in renal failure patients and frequently possess a diagnostic challenge to clinician especially when it was exu...

A novel machine learning approach reveals latent vascular phenotypes predictive of renal cancer outcome.

Gene expression signatures are commonly used as predictive biomarkers, but do not capture structural features within the tissue architecture. Here we ...

Noninvasive Evaluation of Portal Hypertension Using a Supervised Learning Technique.

Portal hypertension (PHT) is a key event in the evolution of different chronic liver diseases and leads to the morbidity and mortality of patients. Th...

Low-dose Rituximab therapy in resistant idiopathic membranous nephropathy: single-center experience.

BACKGROUND: Persistent significant proteinuria has been associated with increased risk of progression to end-stage kidney disease in patients with idi...

Sub-acute administration of lower doses of nicotine caused sex-dependent improvement of renal function in Wistar rats.

The adverse and beneficial health effects of nicotine (NIC), the major alkaloid found in cigarettes and tobacco, are controversial. Most studies on NI...

Associations of ambient coarse particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon monoxide with the risk of kidney disease: a cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Experimental evidence and preliminary clinical evidence suggest that environmental air pollution adversely effects kidney health. Previous...

Relations of established aging biomarkers (IL-6, D-dimer, s-VCAM) to glomerular filtration rate and mortality in community-dwelling elderly adults.

BACKGROUND: Biomarkers improving risk prediction for elderly populations with chronic kidney disease (CKD), an independent predictor of mortality, cou...

A validated capillary electrophoretic method for the determination of indacaterol and its application to a pharmaceutical preparation.

Indacaterol is a new inhaled ultra-long acting β-agonist. It has been recently approved in the European Union for the treatment of chronic obstructive...

Clinical management of patients on peritoneal dialysis in Italy: results from the ATENA study.

BACKGROUND: In Italy, few studies have examined the clinical management of peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients, resulting in a lack of information and a...

[Evaluation of equations using cystatin C for estimation of the glomerular filtration rate in healthy adult population of canidates for kidney donors.].

The determination of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is critical for the selection of potential kidney donors. Methods of measurement of GFR are ...

Influence of Referral to a Combined Diabetology and Nephrology Clinic on Renal Functional Trends and Metabolic Parameters in Adults With Diabetic Kidney Disease.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of a diabetes renal clinic (DRC) on renal functional and metabolic indices in adults who have diabetes mellitus (DM) ...

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 myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). She received a haploidentical a...