Latest AI and machine learning research in nephrology for healthcare professionals.
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether using hydroxyethyl starch (HES) 130/0.4 as a pump prime and for intraoperative fluid therapy is associated with postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) after adult cardiac surgery.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the results of traditional laparoscopy and a simple, single-docking robotic approach for retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND), nephroureterectomy, and bladder cuff excision.
BACKGROUND: A few patients, after receiving solid organ transplantation, return to performing various sports and competitions; however, at present, da...
Chrysophyllum cainito L., a traditional herbal medicine, could have the potential for management of hypertension due to presence of polyphenolic compo...
BACKGROUND: Chronic inflammation is proposed to play a central role in the pathogenesis of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and serum bilirubin has antio...
BACKGROUND: Predictive models for delayed graft function (DGF) after kidney transplantation are usually developed using logistic regression. We want t...
Hypertension has a major associated risk for organ damage and mortality, which is further heightened in patients with prior cardiovascular events, com...
BACKGROUND: Open surgery is the gold standard procedure for kidney transplantation. There is a strong rationale for using minimally invasive surgery i...
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis is a late complication of organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant, the risk of which depends on the degree of imm...
BACKGROUND: Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) accumulates in cortical tubules in acute kidney injury (AKI) patients, with its levels a...
BACKGROUND: Acute heart failure (AHF) is a leading cause of death in critically ill patients and is often accompanied by significant renal dysfunction...
Robotic percutaneous interventional systems represent the future of interventional cardiology. Robotic technology significantly reduces operator expos...
Polymyxin B and colistin are currently used as a 'last-line' treatment for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. However very little is known ab...
PURPOSE: Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease. In order to reduce the morbidity of the open sur...
Kidney renal failure means that one's kidney have unexpectedly stopped functioning, i.e., once chronic disease is exposed, the presence or degree of k...
INTRODUCTION: Surgical management of duplex renal anomaly (DRA) is complex because of individual anatomic variation, competing priorities of vesicoure...
A 37- year-old man with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) was admitted to the intensive care unit following a...
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) act as a major biomarker of cancer. All miRNAs in human body are not equally important for cancer identification. We propose a meth...
TM-2 known as a potential antitumor drug is a novel semi-synthetic taxane derivative. As drug-protein interactions contribute to insights into pharmac...
Recent literature suggests that elevated vancomycin trough concentrations (>20 µg/mL) may be associated with an increased risk of nephrotoxicity and ...