Sevoflurane protects against acute kidney injury in a small-size liver transplantation model.

abstract：:The present study evaluated thyroid hormone indices of patients with acute renal failure without other systemic illnesses (n = 12), as compared to patients with critical illnesses in the presence (n = 16) and absence (n = 6) of acute renal failure. Abnormalities in the group with acute renal failure alone included dec...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Kaptein EM,Levitan D,Feinstein EI,Nicoloff JT,Massry SG

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Hemodialysis treatment requires a well-functioning vascular access. Access patency is limited by the development of venous intimal hyperplasia, which predisposes to fistula stenosis and subsequent thrombosis. In animal models, the renin-angiotensin system has a major role in the development of intimal h...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Heine GH,Ulrich C,Köhler H,Girndt M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis associated with dialysis was studied at the Artificial Kidney Unit (AKU) in Abha, Saudi Arabia. There were 13 tuberculosis patients out of 270 patients on maintenance hemodialysis from August 1986 to July 1993, a prevalence of 4.8%. Ten (77%) were female and 3 (23%) were male, mean age of 51.23 +/- 11.62 ...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： al-Homrany M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Contemporary prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and thrombotic cardiovascular (CV) events remains unclear in Veterans enrolled in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System (VA) care. Although oral P2Y12 inhibitors (P2Y12i) are increasingly being prescribed to this patient population, the overall prescr...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Singh M,Raghavan D,Williams JS,Martin BC,Hudson TJ,Owen RR,Jain N

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Almost 20 million people in the US have chronic kidney disease (CKD). Cardiovascular disease and arterial wall abnormalities are common in this population. Because angiotensin II may have adverse effects on the arterial wall, we hypothesized that an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) would improve arterial c...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Garg JP,Ellis R,Elliott WJ,Hasabou N,Chua D,Chertow GM,Bakris GL

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion-selective electrodes have been designed for determining the ionized concentration of magnesium in blood, the biologically active form of this ion. The effect of acute acidosis induced by ammonium loading on circulating and urinary magnesium was investigated in 11 volunteers. No changes in plasma total and ionized ...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Blumberg D,Bonetti A,Jacomella V,Capillo S,Truttmann AC,Lüthy CM,Colombo JP,Bianchetti MG

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three million people in the United States are estimated to have chronic kidney disease (CKD). Management of these CKD patients in the outpatient primary care clinic setting has not been well studied. HYPOTHESIS:Primary care management of CKD can be assessed and opportunities for improvement can be identifie...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Israni A,Korzelius C,Townsend R,Mesler D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A poor nutritional state is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events in end-stage renal disease. It is unclear whether malnutrition itself can induce cardiovascular disease (CVD). We examined the impact of nutritional status on patients' arterial stiffness in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patien...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Tang W,Cheng LT,Lu XH,Wang T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with advanced chronic renal failure secondary to polycystic kidney disease suffered an episode of volume contraction during which his urinary sodium concentration fell to less than 5 mEq daily. Urine sodium excretion remained at this level when later in his course he became clinically volume expanded. The pa...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Danovitch GM,Jacobson E,Licht A

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated the gender differences in the effect of ACE I/D and AGT M235T polymorphisms on the prognosis of diabetic nephropathy (DN). METHODS:A total of 525 type 2 diabetics were enrolled to participate in this prospective observational study. ACE and AGT gene polymorphisms were analyzed by polymerase ...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Tien KJ,Hsiao JY,Hsu SC,Liang HT,Lin SR,Chen HC,Hsieh MC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been an increasing incidence of hemodialysis (HD) due to old age and comorbid condition such as diabetes. In general, socioeconomic status (SES) is known as one of the most important risk factors for patient mortality and morbidity. Whether low SES is associated with poorer outcome in HD patients i...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Park HC,Kwon YE,Choi HY,Oh HJ,Chang TI,Kang EW,Park KS,Yang KH,Won EM,Shin JH,Ryu DR,Lee YK

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor therapy has recently been shown to be effective in the treatment of post-renal transplant erythrocytosis (PTE). In an attempt to assess the effect of drug treatment on serum erythropoietin level, glomerular filtration rate, and urinary protein excretion, we prospectively e...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Mulhern JG,Lipkowitz GS,Braden GL,Madden RL,O'Shea MH,Harvilchuck H,Guarnera JM,Germain MJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the significant morbidity and mortality attributable to cardiovascular disease (CVD), risk stratification remains an important challenge in the chronic kidney disease (CKD) population. We examined the discriminative ability of noninvasive measures of atherosclerosis, including carotid intima-media th...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Adeseun GA,Xie D,Wang X,Joffe MM,Mohler ER 3rd,Townsend RR,Budoff M,Rosas SE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glomerular ultrastructure was retrospectively reviewed from 45 renal transplant biopsies with the clinical and light microscopic diagnosis of acute rejection (25 cases) and chronic rejection (20 cases). Three grades of morphologic alteration were ultrastructurally defined. In acute rejection, capillary lumenal obl...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Verani RR,Bergman D,Kerman RH

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Patients on chronic hemodialysis have a high prevalence of heart disease and poor self-reported physical function. The association between structural heart disease and self-reported physical function in patients on hemodialysis is unknown. METHODS:We studied the association between elevated pulmonary a...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Abreo AP,Herzog CA,Kutner NG,Lea J,Johansen KL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:African Americans (AAs) suffer the widest gaps in chronic kidney disease (CKD) outcomes compared to Caucasian Americans (CAs) and this is because of the disparities that exist in both health and healthcare. In fact, the prevalence of CKD is 3.5 times higher in AAs compared to CAs. The disparities exist at al...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Harding K,Mersha TB,Vassalotti JA,Webb FA,Nicholas SB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an elderly women who died of renal failure secondary to spontaneous renal atheroembolic disease. The sole clinical clue to this diagnosis was a profound eosinophilia up to 19,100/mm3 and a relative eosinophil count of 80%. Renal atheroembolic disease should be a prominent consideration in any patient with ...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Levine J,Rennke HG,Idelson BA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The value of neutrophil-gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), a novel biomarker in the detection of acute renal failure in children after cardiac surgery, has been highlighted in previous studies. The incidence of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) increases, which may possibly result in increas...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Bachorzewska-Gajewska H,Malyszko J,Sitniewska E,Malyszko JS,Dobrzycki S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes 10 cases of IgM nephropathy in whom the main morphological findings consisted of diffuse mesangial deposition of IgM and varying degrees of mesangial cell proliferation. In addition, focal segmental sclerosis was present in 1 patient and global sclerosis in another. An ill-defined electron-dense d...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Kopolovic J,Shvil Y,Pomeranz A,Ron N,Rubinger D,Oren R

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Recent retrospective studies suggest an association of therapy with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) and increased mortality in renal transplant recipients (RTR). Large artery structure and function are significantly impaired in RTR which contributes to their high cardiovascular morbidity and co...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Bartels V,Hillebrand U,Kosch M,Hausberg M,Kisters K,Di Marco GS,Reiermann S,Pavenstaedt H,Lang D

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effect of multiple dialyzer use on intradialytic symptoms, data from 26,592 successive dialyses on 147 patients were analyzed. Over the 26-month period of study 4,933 new dialyzers were used. All symptoms, considered together, occurred 1.3 times more frequently during the initial than during the subse...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Robson MD,Charoenpanich R,Kant KS,Peterson DW,Flynn J,Cathey M,Pollak VE

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic dysfunction was observed in 34 patients with nontraumatic rhabdomyolysis. The serum levels of lactic dehydrogenase were markedly elevated in all patients. The peak values occurred within 72 h of hospitalization. There was no significant difference among patients with (9,044 +/- 1,154 U/l) and without acute ren...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Akmal M,Massry SG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transglutaminase 2 (TGM2) is a calcium-dependent enzyme that can cross-link nearly all extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins and can facilitate cell-ECM interaction through integrins. Given the importance of the ECM in vascular calcification we tested the hypothesis that increased TGM2 activity may accelerate ...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Chen NX,O'Neill K,Chen X,Kiattisunthorn K,Gattone VH,Moe SM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Renal insufficiency is a well-described risk factor for perioperative morbidity and shortened survival after major vascular procedures. Due to the potential inaccuracy of serum creatinine levels alone in measuring kidney function, our aim was to determine whether estimated creatinine clearance more consisten...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Maithel SK,Pomposelli FB,Williams M,Sheahan MG,Scovell SD,Campbell DR,LoGerfo FW,Hamdan AD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is a disease with an aging population and a high prevalence of cognitive impairment affecting quality of life, health care costs and mortality. Structural changes in the brain with decreased white matter integrity have been observed in ESRD. Understanding the changes in cogniti...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Gupta A,Lepping RJ,Yu AS,Perea RD,Honea RA,Johnson DK,Brooks WM,Burns JM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nutrition has been shown to predict clinical outcome in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients. However, despite the positive relationship between KT/V (urea) and the normalised protein catabolic rate, the ability of urea kinetic modelling to predict clinical outcome or nutrition remains inconclusiv...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Harty J,Boulton H,Heelis N,Uttley L,Venning M,Gokal R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and pathologic findings are described in 14 patients whose main abnormality was an excessively thin glomerular basement membrane (GBM). The subjects were aged 11-51 years, the majority males: most were referred because of hematuria, but proteinuria was the main problem in 2, while hypertension or renal functi...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Dische FE,Weston MJ,Parsons V

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy proteinuria in patients with essential hypertension raises the question of underlying primary renal disease. While malignant hypertension may be associated with proteinuria in the nephrotic range, it is generally held that protein excretion in benign nephrosclerosis is almost invariably less than 0.5-1.0 g/24 h....

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Mujais SK,Emmanouel DS,Kasinath BS,Spargo BH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Growth hormone (GH) resistance in CKD is partly due to increased expression of SOCS2, a GH signaling negative regulator. In SOCS2 absence, body growth is exaggerated. However, GH overexpression in mice causes glomerulosclerosis. Accordingly, we tested whether lack of SOCS2 improves body growth, but accelerat...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Landau D,Assadi MH,Abu Hilal R,Chen Y,Rabkin R,Segev Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore the association between CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 gene polymorphisms and blood pressure response to amlodipine among participants from the African-American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension Trial randomized to amlodipine (n = 164). METHODS:Cox proportional hazards models were used to determine the ri...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Bhatnagar V,Garcia EP,O'Connor DT,Brophy VH,Alcaraz J,Richard E,Bakris GL,Middleton JP,Norris KC,Wright J,Hiremath L,Contreras G,Appel LJ,Lipkowitz MS,AASK Study Investigators.

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00