The determination of plasma transferrin receptor as good index of erythropoietic activity in renal anemia and after renal transplantation.

abstract：:We analyzed 10 patients (male:female 9:1, mean age 64.2 years) who developed hepatocellular carcinoma during the observation period of 2 years among 2,164 chronic hemodialysis patients in 23 dialysis centers. Among them, 409 patients were positive for serum anti-HCV antibodies (19%). They were all positive for serum a...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Sakai Y,Izumi N,Tazawa J,Uchihara M,Akiba T,Marumo F,Sato C

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several underlying metabolic abnormalities may be present in patients with recurrent calcium calculus disease (RCCD). The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of deficiencies of 2 well-known potent inhibitors of crystal formation and growth, citrate and pyrophosphate, in the various metabolic subgroups an...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Laminski NA,Meyers AM,Sonnekus MI,Smyth AE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complement factor H (hCFH) plays a key inhibitory role in the control of the alternative complement pathway. We examined whether urinary hCFH (U-hCFH) levels is useful as an indirect indicator of renal damage. METHODS:Urine samples were obtained from 104 patients with renal disease. Urine was collected with...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tamano M,Fuke Y,Endo M,Ohsawa I,Fujita T,Ohi H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased plasma and red blood cell concentrations of riboflavin have been reported in uremia. The possible role of altered intestinal absorption of riboflavin in the genesis of this abnormality is not known. For this reason we examined the intestinal absorption of riboflavin in rats made uremic by subtotal nephrectom...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Vaziri ND,Said HM,Hollander D,Barbari A,Patel N,Dang D,Kariger R

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diseases affecting both the lung and the kidney have grave prognosis and serious diagnostic and therapeutic consequences. Here, 3 cases of pulmonary-renal syndrome caused by antiphospholipid syndrome are reported. The patients presented with dyspnea, renal insufficiency, pulmonary infiltrates on chest X-ray and areas ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Henning BF,Gröne HJ,Tepel M,Büchner N,Kirchner J,Zidek W

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During hemodialysis therapy, a large amount of water is removed from the patient's blood in a short time; however, blood pressure remains stable in most patients. As water is removed, the circulating serum proteins become more concentrated, resulting in a marked increase in the driving force which pulls water from the...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tabei K,Nagashima H,Imura O,Sakurai T,Asano Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mizoribine has been shown to possess an immunosuppressive action that inhibits the proliferation of lymphocytes selectively by interfering with inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase. Recent studies have demonstrated that mizoribine improves renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis in the rat model of unilateral ureteral obstru...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Sato N,Shiraiwa K,Kai K,Watanabe A,Ogawa S,Kobayashi Y,Yamagishi-Imai H,Utsunomiya Y,Mitarai T

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 62-year-old woman gave clinical manifestation of liver cirrhosis. Urinary protein was false positive, no uremia was found and renal changes were entirely overlooked. Deposition of abundant lipids (globoside and ceramide trihexoside) was found in the kidneys; essentially degenerative changes of the tubular epithelia ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Miyasaki K

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, two isoforms of cyclooxygenase (COX) have been identified, a constitutive form (COX-1) and a mitogen-inducible form (COX-2). Several studies have suggested that COX is activated in renal insufficiency, but little is known about the relationship between progression of renal insufficiency and the COX...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Horiba N,Kumano E,Watanabe T,Shinkura H,Sugimoto T,Inoue M

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple three-pump-based system for the performance of continuous venovenous haemodialysis is described. The method employs access to the circulation via a double-lumen catheter, and by means of a standard extracorporeal peristaltic pump the blood is circulated through a haemofiltration filter. Standard solutions for...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Møller Jensen D,Bistrup C,Pedersen RS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroidectomy was carried out in 26 patients over a 14-year period. Excellent results were obtained in patients with severe hyperparathyroidism. Vascular calcification, hypercalcaemia and pruritus did not justify surgery unless associated with unequivocal hyperparathyroidism. 13 patients required intravenous calci...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Dawborn JK,Brown DJ,Douglas MC,Eddey HH,Heale WF,Thomas DP,Xipell JM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent experience of six large trials of antihypertensive therapy has not clearly demonstrated any beneficial effect on the prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD). The data from the HDFP study have been analyzed by three cholesterol strata at baseline. The higher the baseline cholesterol levels, the greater th...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Schneider KA,Heyden S,Ford C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 55-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital, complaining of general malaise, muscular weakness, anorexia and weight loss. She had a history of ingesting of a certain germanium (Ge) compound over the preceding 19 months, with a total dose of 47 g as Ge element. She was found to have renal failure (blood urea nitro...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Takeuchi A,Yoshizawa N,Oshima S,Kubota T,Oshikawa Y,Akashi Y,Oda T,Niwa H,Imazeki N,Seno A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed in dogs that there is a close relationship between bicarbonate reabsorption and glomerular filtration rate (GFR). The present studies were designed to confirm these findings in five normal men. Bicarbonate titrations were done after ingesting a low protein diet for one week and were repeated followi...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Bennett CM,Falkinburg NR,Springberg PD

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of chitosan-coated dialdehyde cellulose (chitosan DAC), a newly developed oral adsorbent for urea and ammonia, were examined in a glomerulonephritis model in rats. Mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis accompanied with proteinuria was induced by an intravenous injection of anti-rat Thy-1.1 monoclonal ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Yagi M,Kato S,Nishitoba T,Sato H,Kobayashi N,Iinuma N,Nagano N

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured peritoneal losses of the active vitamin D metabolites 1,25(OH)2D3 and 24,25(OH)2D3 in patients receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). The serum concentration of 24,25(OH)2D3 was considerably lower than in hemodialysis patients. The serum concentration of 1,25(OH)2D3 was undetectable an...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Shany S,Rapoport J,Goligorsky M,Yankowitz N,Zuili I,Chaimovitz C

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The decarboxylation and transamination reactions of glyoxylate, which divert this precursor from oxalate formation, have been investigated. Decarboxylation of glyoxylate is synergistic with 2-oxoglutarate and catalysed by 2-oxoglutarate:glyoxylate carboligase which co-chromatographs with the 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogena...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Bais R,Rofe AM,Conyers RA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From July 1984 to December 1987, 9 patients with lupus nephritis did not respond to the administration of two courses of methylprednisolone pulse therapy and cyclophosphamide treatment for 56 days. Therefore, high-dose intravenous human gamma-globulin (IVIG) was administrated. Before IVIG therapy, renal biopsy showed ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Lin CY,Hsu HC,Chiang H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration changes, during hemodialysis treatment, of 18 characteristic uremia compounds, analyzed by high-pressure liquid chromatography in sera of renal patients were studied. Pre- to postdialysis concentration ratios (dialysis ratio, D) varied from 0.83 to 3.04 for the different solutes. A division into thre...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Schoots AC,Peeters JA,Gerlag PG

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated hindquarters of bilaterally nephrectomized and sham-operated rats were perfused in the presence and absence of 14C-labelled serine, respectively. After a perfusion period of 30 min 14C-serine was 4,074 +/- 270 dpm/ml in the perfusion medium of sham-operated animals and decreased to 2,800 +/- 190 dpm/ml in the...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Djovkar A,Hörl WH,Heidland A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of renal allografts in patients who had received pretransplant immunoadsorption in order to remove cytotoxic anti-HLA antibodies was studied. We reviewed 6 patients who received a graft which functioned beyond 3 months; the mean follow-up period was 76 (range 62-89) months. Two grafts have been lost from ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Higgins RM,Bevan DJ,Vaughan RW,Phillips AO,Snowden S,Bewick M,Scoble JE,Hendry BM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid P component (AP) is a matrix glycoprotein of adult renal glomeruli. To establish whether the deposition of AP in glomeruli is an age-related phenomenon, this study used indirect immunofluorescence (IF) to investigate 34 renal biopsy specimens and 11 renal autopsy specimens. The biopsy specimens were taken from...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Rantala IS,Helin HJ,Mustonen JT,Reunala T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Living kidney donation improves the lives of individuals with kidney failure; however, recent studies have suggested that living kidney donors may be at a relatively higher risk of reduced renal function than healthy non-donors. We therefore aimed to evaluate the clinical and pathological findings in livin...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Murata M,Takeda A,Ootsuka Y,Shinjo H,Ito C,Watanabe Y,Washino M,Nakano Y,Tomosugi T,Futamura K,Okada M,Hiramitsu T,Goto N,Ichimori T,Narumi S,Watarai Y,Nishihira M,Morozumi K

更新日期：2020-01-01 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:At present, the determination of dry weight in patients on hemodialysis is largely made empirically by trial and error. Extracellular volume (ECV) assessment by bioimpedance analysis (BIA) is a preferable technique for determining dry weight, and it also provides useful data on body composition. METHODS:We ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Chen YC,Chen HH,Yeh JC,Chen SY

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports on the nephritogenic and immunological enhancing capacity of posttransplant circulating immune complexes (CICs) are conflicting and have been confined to the study of acute rejection episode (AR). This study was undertaken to assess the nephritogenicity of CICs in patients undergoing accelerated acute...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Jordan SC,Sakai R,Ettenger RB,Fine RN

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of contrast media on renal function and the cortical retention of contrast media after abdominal angiography were investigated. Sixteen nondiabetic patients with predialytic chronic renal failure received either the nonionic dimeric contrast medium iodixanol or the monomeric contrast medium iohexol in a do...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Jakobsen JA,Berg KJ,Kjaersgaard P,Kolmannskog F,Nordal KP,Nossen JO,Rootwelt K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 42 untreated patients at various stages of chronic renal failure, plasma level of parathyroid hormone was directly proportional to the degree of renal failure and inversely proportional to the serum calcium level. Plasma parathyroid hormone levels were frequently elevated in 21 patients undergoing regular dialysis ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Fuss M,De Backer M,Brauman J,Nijs-Dewolf N,Manderlier T,Brauman H,Corvilain J

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micropuncture studies were performed in intact and thyroparathyroidectomized (TPTX) dogs to evaluate the relationship between the absolute level of serum ultrafilterable phosphate concentration (SUFP) and proximal bicarbonate reabsorption. In both groups of animals, a reverse linear relationship was noted between the ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Puschett JB,Fernandez PC

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of T cell-mediated immunity in the early phase of nephrotoxic serum nephritis (NTN) was examined by transfer of pan T, CD8-positive, and CD4-positive cells. The disease was induced by transferring rabbit gamma-globulin (RGG)-sensitized T cells to nude (rnu/rnu) rats pretreated with a subnephritogenic dose (a ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kuroda T,Kawasaki K,Oite T,Arakawa M,Shimizu F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00