Clinical kidney journal
Jul 3, 2019
BACKGROUND: Experimental studies have shown fibroblast growth factor 23 FGF23)-mediated upregulation of the distal tubule sodium/chloride (NaCl) co-transporter leading to increased Na reabsorption, volume expansion and hypertension. However, data on ...
Clinical kidney journal
Jul 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Kidney transplantation should improve abnormalities that are common during dialysis treatment, like anaemia and mineral and bone disorder. However, its impact is incompletely understood. We therefore aimed to assess changes in clinical in...
Clinical kidney journal
Jun 17, 2019
BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is frequent in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest (CA) and may worsen outcome. Experimental data suggest a renoprotective effect by treating these patients with a high dose of erythropoietin (Epo) analogue...
Clinical kidney journal
Jun 10, 2019
BACKGROUND: Elderly patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are often excluded from clinical trials; this may affect their use of essential drugs for cardiovascular complications. We sought to assess the impact of age on cardiovascular drug use in...
Clinical kidney journal
Jun 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Doppler ultrasound (DU) monitoring early after arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation allows the identification of low blood flow (Qa) requiring prompt revision, but it is costly (needs skilled operators and technical instruments) and is no...
Clinical kidney journal
May 20, 2019
BACKGROUND: Observational studies relying on clinically obtained data have shown that acute kidney injury (AKI) is linked to accelerated chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression. However, prior reports lacked uniform collection of important confounde...
Clinical kidney journal
Apr 16, 2019
BACKGROUND: Interconnections between major cardiovascular events (MCVEs) and renal events are recognized in diabetes, however, the specific impact of atrial fibrillation (AF), heart failure (HF) and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) on the risk of end-st...
Clinical kidney journal
Dec 17, 2018
BACKGROUND: MYH9-related diseases (MYH9-RD) are autosomal dominant disorders caused by mutations of the gene encoding the non-muscle myosin heavy chain IIA. They are characterized by congenital thrombocytopenia, giant platelets and leucocyte inclusi...
Clinical kidney journal
Dec 15, 2018
BACKGROUND: New high-retention onset dialysers have shown improved efficacy in the elimination of uraemic toxins, and their depurative capacity has been compared with high convective volumes of online haemodiafiltration. Haemodialysis (HD) using high...
Clinical kidney journal
Dec 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: Conversion from tacrolimus to belatacept has been shown to be beneficial for an increasing number of kidney transplant (KT) patients. Predicting factors for favorable outcomes are still unknown. We aimed to investigate whether histologica...