Fungal peritonitis in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. Three recoveries in 5 cases without catheter removal.

abstract：:Recurrent intradialytic hypotension is probably the most severely disabling feature in dialysis patients and the etiology is multifactorial. We assessed the efficacy and safety of midodrine, a selective alpha1-adrenergic pressor agent in 12 patients with recurrent intradialytic hypotension. Symptomatic intradialytic h...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Lim PS,Yang CC,Li HP,Lim YT,Yeh CH

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal hemodynamics and sodium excretion were determined before and during infusion of dopamine in doses ranging from 0.25 to 8 micrograms/kg/min in healthy volunteers (n = 15) and in patients with renal disease and moderately impaired renal function (n = 21, baseline glomerular filtration rate 34-85 ml/min). While in ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Smit AJ,Meijer S,Wesseling H,Reitsma WD,Donker AJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The widespread use of diuretics, potassium supplements, and medications that block renin angiotensin system puts the chronic kidney disease (CKD) population at high risk for dyskalemia, both hyperkalemia and hypokalemia. The optimal potassium level in a CKD patient is unknown. Subject of review: Two recent stud...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tandukar S,Fried LF

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:The assessment of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) on hemodialysis is often hampered by abnormal responses to the standard 1-mg dexamethasone suppression test. Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain this lack of suppressibility. The present study was design...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Van Herle AJ,Birnbaum JA,Slomowitz LA,Mayes D,Chandler DW,Rosenblit PD,Nissenson A

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent efforts have standardized definitions and classification systems for acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). These efforts have enhanced communication, recognition, and awareness of acute and CKDs and stimulated research on both disorders. However, abnormalities of kidney function and struct...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Barry R,James MT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 24-hour urinary excretion of kallikrein (K) and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), which reflects their intrarenal synthesis, was measured in 7 normal women (NW), 10 women with essential hypertension (EH), 26 normal pregnant women (NP), 12 women with hypertension in pregnancy (HP), and 4 women with toxemia. All pregnant wom...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kovatz S,Arber I,Korzets Z,Rathaus M,Ben Aderet N,Bernheim J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chyloperitoneum is a rare condition in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis. We report here a patient who developed chylous ascites during the course of tuberculous peritonitis. The diagnosis was confirmed by cultures of dialysate and peritoneal biopsy, and laparoscopy revealed severe hyperemia and intestine adhesi...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Huang CH,Chen HS,Chen YM,Tsai TJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous therapy with an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor has been shown to have a glomerular vasodepressor effect in the newly diabetic rat and to largely prevent subsequent development of severe sclerosing glomerular injury. Preliminary studies in humans with established diabetic glomerular injury rev...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Myers BD,Meyer TW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postnephrectomy serum has been proved to enhance proliferation of mesangial cells in culture. Studies in offspring to uninephrectomized (UNx) mothers indicate that it remains active for a long period following UNx. On the other hand, postnephrectomy renal compensatory growth in vivo is known to be completed within a s...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Weissgarten J,Modai D,Cohn M,Berman S,Averbukh Z

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement factor D, a complement system serine protease, circulating in vivo as its active form, accumulates in patients with chronic renal failure. The pathophysiological role of this active protease in these patients was examined by studies on activities of excess factor D on 10 synthetic peptide substrates for som...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Inagi R,Miyata T,Oda O,Maeda K,Inoue K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradykinin (BK) elicits extracellular-dependent [Ca2+](i) elevations in mouse mesangial cells (MMC) that are not blocked by verapamil, nifedipine, L-nicardipine, NiCl(2), or LaCl(3). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the mechanisms involved in calcium influx induced by BK in MMC. [Ca2+](i) was analyzed thro...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Campos AH,Calixto JB,Schor N

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:Thymopentine is a synthetic immunomodulator that positively affects T-lymphocyte maturation, reproduction and differentiation. In elderly uremic patients nonresponders to hepatitis B vaccine, the administration of this drug has been shown to improve the response to the new vaccination. ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Melappioni M,Baldassari M,Baldini S,Radicioni R,Panichi N

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a cause of biopsy-proven acute kidney injury, more common in the elderly. Treatment requires immunosuppression, which can have significant toxic effects. The aim of this study was to assess whether morbidity and mortality that are a...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Judge PK,Reschen ME,Haynes R,Sharples EJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible role of altered renal prostaglandin metabolism in the generation of post-obstruction diuresis (POD) was examined in 16 adult male Sprague-Dawley rats. Inhibition of cyclooxygenase by the administration of a combination of two nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID), meclofenamate and indomethacin in ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kauker ML,Zawada ET

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forced migration is on the rise, mainly from the Middle East to western countries, resulting in unprecedented moral, political, and economic challenges for both refugees and host communities. Recent research showed that refugees represent around 1.5% of the dialysis population in several European and Middle Eastern co...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Sekkarie MA,Abdel-Rahman EM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:8 patients with thrombotic microangiopathy were treated with a new antithrombotic agent, defibrotide. This drug displays considerable fibrinolytic and antithrombotic activity, and induces generation and release of a prostacyclin-like substance from vascular tissue. At admission all patients presented severe renal invo...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Bonomini V,Frascà GM,Raimondi C,Liviano D'arcangelo G,Vangelista A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:World Kidney Day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in childhood differs from that in adults, as the largest diagnostic group among children includes congenital anomalies and inherited disorders, wit...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ingelfinger JR,Kalantar-Zadeh K,Schaefer F,World Kidney Day Steering Committee.

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of each of several tannins purified from Rhei Rhizoma on serum constituents were investigated in rats with adenine-induced renal failure. Blood levels of urea nitrogen, methylguanidine (MG), and guanidinosuccinic acid (GSA) were significantly decreased in rats given (-)-epicatechin 3-O-gallate at a dose of...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Yokozawa T,Fujioka K,Oura H,Nonaka G,Nishioka I

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classic renal tubular acidosis is characterized by a primary defect in establishment of a large hydrogen ion gradient across the distal renal tubule. Thus the development of hyperchlorenic metabolic acidosis follows. In addition, hypokalemia results from renal potassium wasting secondary hyperaldosteronism from sodium...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Chan JC

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma immunoreactive atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) levels, their chromatographic profiles (high-performance liquid chromatography; HPLC) and changes during sequential ultrafiltration (UF; 1 litre/h) and biochemical correction without fluid removal (BC; 3 h) were studied in 8 end-stage chronic renal failure patients...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Tonolo G,McMillan M,Richards AM,Montorsi P,Polonia J,Soro A,Troffa C,Glorioso N

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of simvastatin, a competitive inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methyl glutaryl coenzyme A reductase, was investigated in 12 patients treated with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), displaying hypercholesterolemia and moderate hypertriglyceridemia. After a 4-week placebo period, simvastatin was admi...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Wanner C,Lubrich-Birkner I,Summ O,Wieland H,Schollmeyer P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in renal function and structure are frequently observed in patients with diabetes mellitus. In the early phases of the disease, alterations in glomerular filtration rate, renal plasma flow, glomerular permeability and tubular capacity for glucose reabsorption occur. In the late stages of juvenile onset diabete...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Rubenstein AH,Mako ME,Horwitz DL

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transplant cure tubular necrosis (ATN) represents the most frequent cause of delayed graft function in the immediate post-transplant period. Several causes have been associated with the development of post-transplant ATN such as donor and recipient ages, cold-warm ischemia times, HLA mismatches, and postoperative...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Torregrosa JV,Campistol JM,Fenollosa B,Montesinos M,Romar A,Martinez de Osaba MJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like other biguanide agents, metformin is an anti-hyperglycemic agent with lower tendency towards hypoglycemia compared to other anti-diabetic drugs. Given its favorable effects on serum lipids, obese body habitus, cardiovascular disease, and mortality, metformin is recommended as the first-line pharmacologic agent fo...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Rhee CM,Kovesdy CP,Kalantar-Zadeh K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Little is known about the effect of posttransplant opioid use on adherence to immunosuppressant therapy (IST) among adult renal transplant recipients (RTRs). OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between opioid use and IST adherence among adult RTRs during the first year posttran...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Chisholm-Burns MA,Spivey CA,Potukuchi PK,Streja E,Kalantar-Zadeh K,Kovesdy CP,Molnar MZ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of mast cells in the skin was evaluated in 25 patients with end-stage renal failure on different treatment modality (conservative, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis). According to the presence of pruritus, uremic patients were divided into two groups: group A, 13 patients with diffuse pruritus, and group...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Dimković N,Djukanović L,Radmilović A,Bojić P,Juloski T

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：BACKGROUND/AIM:The impact of dialysis membrane permeability on neutrophil transmigration properties in vitro was examined in the present study. This issue has not been fully scrutinized before. METHODS:We studied the capacity of neutrophils collected from a group of dialysis patients randomly treated with cuprophan, l...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Moshfegh A,Jacobson SH,Halldén G,Thylén P,Lundahl J

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00