Nephrology

Medium-Term Renal Function in a Large Cohort of Stable Kidney Transplant Recipients Converted From Twice-Daily to Once-Daily Tacrolimus.

BACKGROUND: There is some evidence pointing toward better renal function in kidney transplant recipients (KTR) treated with once-daily tacrolimus (QD-TAC) vs. twice-daily tacrolimus (BID-TAC).

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 cause in tumorigenesis. Protein kinases play essential roles in cancer progression and specifically, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is an important target for cancer therapy. In this work, we have developed a method to classify single amino acid polymorphisms (SAPs) in EGFR into disease-causin...

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

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), as typical environmental estrogen disruptors, are a structurally-related group of halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons ...

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 lives with it. A number of risk factors have been ...

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 adolescents. Many studies have reported the relation betwee...

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 understand how patients interact with home medical device...

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 proof is still awaited on the relationship between...

Biofertilizer and biostimulant properties of the microalga .

Microalgae represent a potential sustainable alternative for the enhancement and protection of agricultural crops. Cellular extracts and dry biomass o...

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. Recently, high levels of GDF-15 supressed the iron r...

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 equipoise, although the cost of haemodialysis to ...

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 a standardized manner. There are multiple initiat...

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 sulphuric acid in electrolyte, amount of aluminium cation...

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 End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Iron supplement and...

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 disease in patients enrolled in the Fabry Outcome S...

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 of the most striking manifestations. Although it c...

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 for portal hypertension and cirrhosis is not well es...