Effects of oral supplementation with evening primrose oil for six weeks on plasma essential fatty acids and uremic skin symptoms in hemodialysis patients.

abstract：:Two observers, unaware of each other's findings and of the diagnosis, examined red cells in the urine of 109 patients by phase-contrast microscopy. All specimens were examined uncentrifuged by inverted microscopy, and 48 of the 109 were also examined under a light microscope after centrifugation. We were unable to con...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Venkat Raman G,Pead L,Lee HA,Maskell R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Episodes of acute kidney injury (AKI) have been associated with the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, follow-up pathways for patients who have survived AKI complicating critical illness are not well established. We hypothesised that patients who had AKI requiring renal replacement therapy...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kirwan CJ,Blunden MJ,Dobbie H,James A,Nedungadi A,Prowle JR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are no data available on the effects of intravenous (i.v.) methylcobalamin (Me-Cbl), the coenzymatically active form of vitamin B12 that acts as a cofactor for methionine synthase in the conversion of total homocysteine (tHcy) to methionine, with or without oral folic acid (FA) supplementation, on fast...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Trimarchi H,Schiel A,Freixas E,Díaz M

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A preparation for performance of renal clearances in the conscious dog is described. The important aspect of the technique is the use of a Pavlov sling and a specially designed restraining apparatus. Of most importance is the use of a 7 French Swan-Ganz balloon-tipped catheter for urinary bladder catheterization. The ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Garner D,Laks MM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of progressive systemic sclerosis with rapidly progressing renal failure after a successful delivery is described. The presenting syndrome was malignant hypertension. The blood pressure was refractory to the various therapeutic measures which were instituted, including hemodialysis. The patient, theref...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ehrenfeld M,Licht A,Stessman J,Yanko L,Rosenmann E

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the effects of sodium depletion on tubular Na and H2O transport in man, renal clearance studies were performed under control conditions and after sodium depletion in 7 normal subjects. The control diet contained 250 mEq of Na daily. Sodium depletion was induced by placing subjects on a 20-mEq/day na...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： DiScala VA,Stein RM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HCV is seen as an emergent problem in Dialysis Units; in fact, the patients of these centers are at high risk for blood-transmitted infections, through coming microepidemies. For this reason and using the same method, we have studied the prevalence of anti-HCV and virus-derived hepatitis in a dialytic population of 10...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Scotto G,Savastano AM,Forcella M,Tantimonaco G,Amato G,Salatino G,Pappani A,Stella I

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course of left ventricular hypertrophy was investigated in anemic hemodialysis patients treated with recombinant human erythropoietin (r-huEPO). 12 patients, aged 60.8 +/- 9.9 years (mean +/- SD) were treated for 18.8 +/- 2.7 months. Left ventricular size was estimated by echocardiography performed before treatmen...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Zehnder C,Zuber M,Sulzer M,Meyer B,Straumann E,Jenzer HR,Blumberg A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the case of a 50-year-old male with end-stage renal failure accompanied with congenital heart disease and polycythemia. After he had received continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis for 1 year, he still remained polycythemic and his serum erythropoietin titer, assayed using fetal mouse liver ce...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Muto S,Asano Y,Hosoda S,Shionoya S,Miura Y,Urabe A,Takaku F

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 72-year-old non-diabetic uremic woman underwent right nephrectomy for urolithiasis at the age of 50. Because pyuria, fever, chilliness and left flank pain developed during preparing for arteriovenous fistula, she was admitted to National Cheng Kung University Hospital. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) complicated with emp...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Lin CH,Huang JJ,Liu HL,Lee SY,Hsieh RY,Tseng CC

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is common, costly, and it results from progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD). ESRD claims many lives every year. It is increasingly recognized that episodes of acute kidney injury (AKI) predispose to the future development of CKD and ESRD. While our understanding of the pathophysiolog...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ó hAinmhire E,Humphreys BD

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although serologic studies have identified hantaviral infection in the United States, acute disease has not been recognized. This study describes 3 cases of domestically acquired hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in the United States. Infection was due to a local strain of Seoul virus (Baltimore rat virus)....

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Glass GE,Watson AJ,LeDuc JW,Childs JE

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An abnormal level of serum lipids may be one of the major risk factors for the development of atherosclerosis in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF). In the present study, the effect of polyunsaturated fatty acid-rich and low carbohydrate diet on serum lipids and HDL-cholesterol was studied in 6 nonnephrotic and...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tsukamoto Y,Okubo M,Yoneda T,Marumo F,Nakamura H

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a ubiquitous component of extracellular matrix. After tissue injury, HA appears in greater abundance during the inflammatory response and the phase of clearance of cell and matrix debris, before collagen production and matrix degradation. The aim of this study was to examine whether normal rat ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Pedagogos E,Hewitson TD,Nicholls KM,Becker GJ

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Enamel-renal syndrome is characterized by nephrocalcinosis, enamel defects, gingival hyperplasia and eruption failures. It has been recently identified that recessive mutations in the FAM20A gene result in amelogenesis imperfecta (AI)-gingival fibromatosis. The aim of this research to determine whether ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Koruyucu M,Seymen F,Gencay G,Gencay K,Tuna EB,Shin TJ,Hyun HK,Kim YJ,Kim JW

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum specimens from 99 selected renal patients were examined over a 3-year period by both a hemagglutination technique (HA) and an indirect immunofluorescent (IIF) method for the presence of circulating antibody against tubular basement membrane (TBM). 11 patients were found with anti-TBM antibodies. 6 of them also h...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Cattran DC

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the antiplatelet agents, ticlopidine and dipyridamole, on nephrotoxic serum nephritis (NTN) was evaluated in rats. An accelerated form of NTN was induced with preimmunization of rabbit IgG 7 days before injection of rabbit antirat nephrotoxic serum. Twelve animals received a peroral dose of 20 mg of ticl...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Izumino K,Iida H,Asaka M,Sasayama S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma renin reactivity (PRR) is the in vitro rate of angiotensin generation after addition of exogenous renin to plasma. The purpose of the present study is to compare measurements of PRR in venous effluent from the involved and uninvolved kidneys in both experimental and clinical renovascular hypertension. A two-kid...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kotchen TA,Welch WJ,Daugherty M,Ernst CB

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical survey of the literature suggests that elevated serum uric acid is definitely associated with hypertension and may function as an independent risk factor in the development of this disease. The possible role of an elevated serum uric acid as an independent risk factor for the development of ischemic heart d...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tweeddale MG,Fodor JG

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of antimitotic chemotherapy in hemodialysis patients is not yet well codified, and each individual decision remains difficult. We report the case of a 68-year-old hemodialyzed man who developed a squamous cell carcinoma of the upper third of the esophagus. Necessarily disabling surgery was rejected, and three ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Rebibou JM,Chauffert B,Dumas M,Mousson C,Bone MC,Tanter Y,Rifle G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum leptin concentrations in normal humans have been reported to correlate with the body mass index (BMI) as well as with the body fat mass. In this study, we measured serum leptin concentrations in 107 patients on hemodialysis, 30 of whom had diabetes mellitus as the cause, and examined the clinical significance. F...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Nakazono H,Nagake Y,Ichikawa H,Makino H

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatinine clearance has been repeatedly measured in three groups of chronic uremics. In the first control group (31 cases), following a conventional low-protein diet, creatinine clearance declined linearly with time. In the second group (12 cases), following very low nitrogen diet supplemented with essential amino ac...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Barsotti G,Guiducci A,Ciardella F,Giovannetti S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A constant finding in beta (2)-microglobulin (beta 2m) amyloidosis is an increase in tissue heparan sulfate (HS) and chondroitin sulfate (CS) proteoglycans (PGs) at sites of amyloid deposits. However, the binding characteristics of PGs with beta 2m have not been elucidated yet. METHODS:Using affinity retard...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ohashi K,Kisilevsky R,Yanagishita M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new case of acute renal failure after rifampicin is presented, together with a review of the 36 similar cases published up to date in the literature. Evidence is provided that irregularities in drug intake, either as true intermittent treatment or as discontinuation of continuous therapy, play an important role in t...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Nessi R,Bonoldi GL,Redaelli B,di Filippo G

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the best time of administration of desferrioxamine (DFO) with respect to the dialysis session, using the approach of the stochastic dynamic system, integrated with the classical pharmacokinetic models. In the 6 patients studied, the mean arrival times of DFO, aluminoxamine (AlO) and ferrioxamine (FO) w...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Andriani M,Nordio M,Saporiti E

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old Japanese boy showed nephritis similar to, but distinct from, that in Alport syndrome. Nephrotic syndrome without hematuria was noticed at age 2, although renal biopsy at age 4 revealed widespread irregular thickening of the glomerular basement membrane with splitting of the lamina densa on electron micros...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kawakami H,Murakami T,Murano I,Ushijima T,Taguchi T,Hattori S,Kajii T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-term hemodialysis male patient was known to have systemic iron overload due to regular blood transfusions. As he was suspected to have aluminum overload, he received a single intravenous administration of desferrioxamine (that supported the hypothesis). Four days later, he became highly febrile with no focus of...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Hoen B,Renoult E,Jonon B,Kessler M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 25 patients with nephrotic syndromes of different origin, indomethacin caused an immediate decrease in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and urinary protein excretion. This effect of indomethacin on GFR and proteinuria was more pronounced when the renin-angiotensin system was stimulated by a low-sodium diet and 50 m...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Donker AJ,Brentjens JR,van der Hem GK,Arisz L

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that hyperoxalemia can be aggravated by vitamin C supplementation in regular hemodialysis patients. The present study was undertaken to examine the validity of this observation in an experimental setting. Fifty five-sixths nephrectomized rats were divided into two groups: 30 rats were allow...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ono K,Ono H,Ono T,Kikawa K,Oh Y

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gentamicin doses of 40 mg/kg body weight/day were administered intravenously to 62 Wistar rats. Nineteen animals were also treated orally with an NaHCO3 solution in place of water. The gentamicin-treated animals showed increased albuminuria immediately after the 3rd day of treatment. The fact that this increase was ma...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Coimbra TM,Lachat JJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00