Elevated circulating growth differentiation factor 15 is related to decreased heart rate variability in chronic kidney disease patients.

abstract：:Cyclosporin (CSA) has been universally used as an immunosuppressant for the management of allotransplantation and autoimmune diseases. However, nephrotoxicity of CSA limits its use to optimum level. Aluminum (Al) is an extensively distributed element in the environment and human exposure to this metal is unavoidable. ...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Tariq M,Morais C,Sujata B,Sobki S,al Sulaiman M,al Khader A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on the oxidative stress in patients with severe chronic renal failure who are not undergoing dialysis treatment. The erythocyte levels, creatinine clearing and plasma- and cell activities of the following enzymes were determined: glutathione peroxidase (Gpx), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CA...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Martín-Mateo MC,Sánchez-Portugal M,Iglesias S,de Paula A,Bustamante J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past population studies have indicated a higher prevalence of high albumin excretion in children than in adults. In this study, NHANES III United States population data was analyzed to study factors associated with elevated albumin excretion in children 8 to 18 years of age. The analysis confirmed a higher prevalence ...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Mueller PW,Caudill SP

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between hydrocarbon exposure and chronic glomerulonephritis is still a controversial scientific issue. Recent epidemiological evidence suggests a role of exposure to hydrocarbons in the progression of glomerulonephritis towards chronic renal failure. The present experimental study on rats has been desi...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Mutti A,Coccini T,Alinovi R,Toubeau G,Broeckaert F,Bergamaschi E,Mozzoni P,Nonclercq D,Bernard A,Manzo L

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accelerated hemodialysis (AHD) is a new safe method of hemodialysis that is done using accelerated hemodialysis blood lines (registered). These lines allow partial controlled recirculation of blood through a recirculation segment. AHD allows increase in the filter blood flow without increasing the patient blood flow a...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Mohamad EH

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-trimoxazole is an antibiotic that is frequently used in organ transplant patients. Our objective was to determine the effect of co-trimoxazole on tacrolimus-mediated functional impairment of the kidney in rats. Sprague Dawley rats were divided into three groups. Group 1 (dextrose) received 5% dextrose and Group 2 (...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Agarwala S,Ou J,Subbotin V,Zuckermann S,Randhawa P,Burckart G,Venkataramanan R

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outline is given of the pathophysiology of IgA nephropathy (IgA) in order to emphasize the role of eicosanoids, angiotensin II, and reactive oxygen species. ACE inhibitors and early corticosteroid usage are prime therapies. Tonsillectomy is to be considered, certainly for individual cases. It is logical that other ...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Wardle EN

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-existing renal insufficiency serves as a common risk factor in the development of acute renal failure. Acute renal failure is a common finding in patients with bacteremia and is associated with poor prognosis. A total of 2722 consecutive patients 18 years old or older, fulfilling strike criteria of bacteremia or f...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Shmuely H,Pitlik S,Drucker M,Samra Z,Konisberger H,Leibovici L

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of a total of 1545 admissions of end stage renal failure (ESRD) patients, fifty-six (3.6%) were admitted during a ten-year period with hypoglycemia. Thirty-eight of them were diabetic while the others were non-diabetic patients. The most common etiology found to be drug-induced hypoglycemia in 26 (46%) patients. In 22...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Haviv YS,Sharkia M,Safadi R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac arrhythmias are noted in a significant proportion of chronic renal failure (CRF) patients on hemodialysis (HD), and may contribute to cardiovascular mortality. A number of factors have been implicated in the genesis of these arrhythmias. The role of silent myocardial ischemia (SMI), however, has not been evalu...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Narula AS,Jha V,Bali HK,Sakhuja V,Sapru RP

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac surgery can either induce acute renal failure or improve GFR by improving the cardiac performance. In order to study renal function changes after elective cardiac surgery (CS) with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPBP), 21 patients undergoing valvular CS (VCS) or coronary artery bypass (CAB) were prospectively evaluat...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： de Moraes Lobo EM,Burdmann EA,Abdulkader RC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN) nephropathy in rats has been induced by the intraperitoneal injections of PAN. One group of animals which received PAN has been treated simultaneously with captopril (angiotensine converting enzyme-ACE-inhibitor) with the aim to test whether continuing treatment with captopril along wit...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Djordjevic VB,Cosic V,Pavlovic D,Vlahovic P,Jevtovic T,Kocic G,Savic V

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute renal failure in pregnancy is not common in industrialized countries. HELLP syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzyme, and low platelets) was one of the causes of acute renal failure in pregnancy, but renal pathological findings in case of acute renal failure had rarely been reported. We reported an unusual cas...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Fang JT,Chen YC,Huang CC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence in literature suggests that acute effects of either chloroquine or ethanol on kidney function partly depend on influencing plasma concentrations of arginine vasopressin (AVP). Therefore, the goal of the current study was to explore the effects of chloroquine and/or various doses of ethanol on plasma A...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Cooper RG,Musabayane CT

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney biopsy is an indispensible procedure for making a pathologic diagnosis of renal diseases by fixing and staining the biopsy specimen. However, it is not a routine procedure to culture the cells from a renal biopsy specimen directly, or to utilize the cultured cells for any kind of diagnostic or functional evalua...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Kim JS,Hwang HZ,Yeo SH,Ko SW,Song SM,Kim YK,Kim DJ,Oh HY,Choi HY,Kim MK,Toru S,Kohsaka T,Kim Y,Jin DK

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Non cellulosic membranes, as polyacrylonitrile (AN69) improves middle-molecules purification through hemodialysis, and this increased clearance of middle-molecules may have benefical effects on uremic polyneuropathy. We have tried to evaluate this effect comparing nerve conduction velocities before and after hemodi...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Robles NR,Cancho B,Pizarro J,Solis M,Alvarez Mato C,Sánchez-Casado E

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose is the main source or energy for the mammalian cells and its entry is mediated via various transporters. About 7 facilitative (GULT-1 to -7) and 2 concentrative glucose transporters (SGLT-1 and -2) have been identified. The facilitative glucose transporters allow the glucose entry into the cell interior due to...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Wallner EI,Wada J,Tramonti G,Lin S,Kanwar YS

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood tubings commonly represent an integral component of hemodialysis circuits. Different factors may influence their biocompatibility, such as the type of material, the sterilization mode and the geometry. In vivo the final biocompatibility may be further complicated by the individual host response, the flow paramet...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Baccheschi S,Sereni L,De Nitti C,Barbucci R,Tetta C

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic vascular rejection (CR) is the commonest cause of renal transplant loss, with few clues to etiology, but proteinuria is a common feature. In diseased native kidneys, proteinuria and progression to failure are linked. We proposed a pathogenic role for this excess protein at a tubular level in kidney diseases of...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Rustom R,Grime JS,Sells RA,Amara A,Jackson MJ,Shenkin A,Maltby P,Smith L,Hammad A,Brown M,Bone JM

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several lines of evidence have suggested that renal handling of proteins in rats with several nephropathies may contribute to the tubulointerstitial damage observed in these animals. It has been suggested that proteins filtered by the glomeruli may be toxic for tubule cells. The aim of this study was to investigate th...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Galli LG,Volpini RA,Costa RS,da Silva CG,Coimbra TM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence of NF-kappaB independent inflammatory signals in the cortical tubulointerstitium may explain the incomplete suppression of interstitial monocyte accumulation by the antioxidant NF-kappaB inhibitor, pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC), in nephrotic rats with established Adriamycin nephropathy (AN). Becau...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Rangan GK,Wang Y,Tay YC,Harris DC

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old woman suffering from chronic renal failure (Creatinine 480 micromol/L) underwent a gadolinium renal angiography, which visualized a stenosis of the right renal artery. There was no deterioration of renal function after the arteriography. A review of the literature is presented which show the efficiency o...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Bassilios N,Vantelon C,Cluzel P,Baumelou A,Deray G

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Although the majority of patients with end stage renal failure have anemia, some have relative erythrocytosis. Patients treated with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) having relative erythrocytosis were studied in order to determine the factors that would be responsible. METHODS:Nine ...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Altiparmak MR,Ataman R,Ozaras R,Tahan V,Aydin S,Uzun H,Serdengecti K,Soysal T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of the cyclooxygenase inhibitor, indomethacin, and some vasoactive agents on the renal functional parameters during the early liver injury induced by four days bile duct ligation (BDL). Wistar rats with four days-BDL and control-sham operated were used. Renal functio...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Monasterolo LA,Ochoa JE,Elías MM

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a recent outbreak of leptospirosis in northeastern Thailand, 148 patients with serologically diagnosed leptospirosis were seen in Loei hospital. The common serotypes were L. pyrogenes, and L. sejroe. Hypotension with a mean arterial pressure less than 70 mmHg upon admission or within 24 h after admission was ob...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Niwattayakul K,Homvijitkul J,Niwattayakul S,Khow O,Sitprija V

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Star fruit intoxication is a rare cause of consciousness disturbance in patients with renal failure. Most cases in the literature are uremic patients on maintenance dialysis. We present a patient with chronic renal failure, who was not on dialysis program yet, suffered from star fruit intoxication with presentation of...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Chang CT,Chen YC,Fang JT,Huang CC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reason of variability of clinical course and progression to end-stage renal failure (ESRF) of two widespread chronic nephropathies-autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and IgA nephropathy (IGAN) is not clear. The endothelial dysfunction is considered in the number of factors possibly infl...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Merta M,Reiterová J,Tesar V,Stekrová J,Viklický O

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pruritus is a common complaint among end stage renal disease patients and has been associated with poor outcome. We characterized this problem at our outpatient hemodialysis unit. Seventy patients were surveyed over a two-day period. A visual analog scale was used to evaluate the intensity of itching. Location of itch...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Subach RA,Marx MA

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a 56-year-old man with a ruptured infected abdominal aortic aneurysm secondary to Salmonella bacteremia, initially presenting as acute pyelonephritis. Spike fever with severe back pain continued despite empiric antibiotic treatment at a local hospital. Hypotension with a sudden hemoglobin drop wa...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Chen JK,Lin JL,Huang CC,Yu CC

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melatonin, the pineal hormone with antioxidative properties was administered to rats with glycerol-induced myoglobinuric acute renal failure (Gly-ARF). This model is characterized by acute tubular necrosis mediated by heme-iron oxidative stress. Rats received melatonin (20 mg/kg) concomitant and 3 h after glycerol inj...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Ferraz FF,Kos AG,Janino P,Homsi E

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00