A new technique for insertion of the Tenckhoff peritoneal dialysis catheter.

abstract：:In this study we investigated the interactions between volume changes (body weight), plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (pANP) and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) in 10 patients with end-stage renal disease undergoing regular hemodialysis (HD) treatment three times weekly. Most patients retained their diurnal BP variati...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ojanen S,Pietilä K,Pasternack A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5 cases of severe acute renal failure caused by ethyl alcohol-induced rhabdomyolysis are reviewed. 4 patients were dialyzed. All patients recovered completely from the renal failure. ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Haapanen E,Pellinen TJ,Partanen J

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sprague-Dawley rats given gentamicin from 10 to 70 mg/kg/day for 9 days showed a linear decrease in glomerular filtration rate with increasing dose, paralleled by histologic changes of acute tubular necrosis and cast formation only at the higher doses. Nephrotoxicity was correlated with the peak, rather than trough, s...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Sugarman A,Brown RS,Silva P,Rosen S

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:It has been assumed, but not documented, that hypercalcemia induces an appreciable reduction in the serum anion gap (AG) because it represents an increase in the level of unmeasured cations. To test this question, we retrospectively compared the data of 59 hypercalcemic patients with malignancy [group 1, serum Ca 13.3...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Oster JR,Gutierrez R,Schlessinger FB,Taylor A,Federman DG,Vaamonde CA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreased serum levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are a well-known risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) in the general population and have been suggested as one of the best predictor of CHD after renal transplantation. However, very heterogeneous HDL-C levels have been reported in renal tr...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Radeau T,Vohl MC,Houde I,Lachance JG,Noël R,Després JP,Douville P,Bergeron J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe an unusual case of radial artery pseudoaneurysm in a patient with a Brescia-Cimino fistula. Evaluation of a pulsatile mass on the patient's forearm which occurred after hemodialysis led to a nondiagnostic fistulogram. Color flow ultrasound was helpful in identifying the nature of the abnormality, ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Labus TP,Trerotola SO,Savader SJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats pretreated with sodium bicarbonate were functionally protected from the damage of bilateral renal artery occlusion. The rise in serum creatinine (day 1 minus day 0) during the first 24 h after ischemia was 2.88 +/- 0.28 mg% in the bicarbonate-loaded animals versus 3.90 +/- 0.26 mg% in their matched controls (p le...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Atkins JL

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：:In pharmacologic doses E series prostaglandins attenuate the development of immune complex nephritis. We studied the effect of the dietary prostaglandin precursor linoleic acid on murine apoferritin-induced immune complex glomerulonephritis. High, normal, or low linoleic acid diets were fed to mice for 4 weeks prior t...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kher V,Barcelli U,Weiss M,Pollak VE

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:The effects of free radicals on the development of crystals attached to the living epithelium have been studied using an experimental model that enables close simulation of the conditions prevailing in the kidney. The results obtained clearly demonstrate that free radical-damaged cells produce a favorable environment ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Grases F,García-Ferragut L,Costa-Bauzá A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary calcifications are known to occur in patients with chronic renal failure. Recently, scintigrams with bone-seeking radionuclides have been used to detect subclinical pulmonary calcium deposits. We studied 18 children on maintenance dialysis without evidence of pulmonary calcification on chest X-ray. Four chil...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Drachman R,Baillet G,Gagnadoux MF,de Vernejoul P,Broyer M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Home hemodialysis is usually considered a superior therapy, whose decline is related to demographic, social, psychological and financial factors as well as to competition with renal transplantation and PD. METHODS:A home hemodialysis program was started in November 1998 in the University of Torino, Italy (2...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Piccoli GB,Bermond F,Mezza E,Quaglia M,Pacitti A,Jeantet A,Segoloni GP

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Urinary excretion of oxalate, calcium and urate has been investigated in 88 patients affected by idiopathic calcium oxalate stone disease and in 20 normal subjects. Of these ions, only oxalate was found significantly higher in stone formers. Defining hyperoxaluria as urinary oxalate excretion greater than 2 SD above n...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Baggio B,Gambaro G,Favaro S,Borsatti A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anderson-Fabry disease (AFd) is a rare X-linked disorder characterized by deficiency of alpha-galactosidase A that leads to systemic accumulation of neutral glycosphingolipids, predominantly globotriaosylceramide (Gb3), in body fluids and visceral tissues, including the kidney. End-stage renal failure is a common mani...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Sessa A,Meroni M,Battini G,Maglio A,Nebuloni M,Tosoni A,Panichi V,Bertagnolio B

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：: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：:The clinical profile of a patient with a 15 years' evolution of acne conglobata developing systemic amyloidosis with severe renal involvement is described, and the possible influence of suppurative skin foci surgical excision on the rapid progression to terminal renal failure is discussed. This etiological cause of se...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Naya MT,Soria C,Quereda C,Orte L,Romero R,Ortuño J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic nephropathy (DN), a distinct manifestation of diabetic kidney disease, affects approximately 30% of patients with diabetes. While most attention has been focused on glomerular changes related to DN, there is growing evidence that tubulopathy is a key feature in the pathogenesis of this disease. The renal prox...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Hinden L,Tam J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities in plasma composition of essential fatty acids (EFAs) may be associated with the etiology of pruritus and other skin problems in patients undergoing hemodialysis. To study whether an oral supplementation with omega-6 (n-6) EFAs would restore deranged plasma EFAs and ameliorate skin symptoms, 9 and 7 dial...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Yoshimoto-Furuie K,Yoshimoto K,Tanaka T,Saima S,Kikuchi Y,Shay J,Horrobin DF,Echizen H

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that cigarette-smoking affects platelets and endothelium in men and women without renal failure. The present study compared 10 male habitual smokers receiving maintenance hemodialysis for chronic renal failure with 11 healthy male habitual smokers before and after controlled cigarette-smoking a...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Davis JW,Arnold J,Wiegmann T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three unusual cases are described which demonstrated hypomagnesemia and symptoms resembling magnesium deficiency syndrome. The hypomagnesemia was most likely secondary to urinary losses from diuresis following release of post-renal obstruction and renal homotransplantation. Heretofore, this association has not been de...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Davis BB,Preuss HG,Murdaugh HV Jr

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of ionic calcium (Ca2+ in the smooth muscular cells of the resistance vessels is a determining factor of their contraction. It depends on the influx of Ca2+ to the interior of the cells through the calcium channels in the sarcolemma. The effect of a specific Ca2+-channel blocking agent - nifedipine -...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Moreira J,Barata JD,Olias J

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：: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：: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