Effect of probucol on hyperlipidemia in patients with nephrotic syndrome.

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Glomerular basement membrane (GBM) thickening and mesangial matrix expansion are characteristic features of diabetic nephropathy. The present study investigates the role of endothelins (ETs) in the pathogenesis of such changes in diabetic nephropathy. METHODS:Diabetic (streptozotocin-induced, 65 mg/kg)...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Chen S,Evans T,Deng D,Cukiernik M,Chakrabarti S

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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：:Renal scarring is considered to be a characteristic of reflux nephropathy. The effects of ulinastatin, a strong inhibitor of polymorphonuclear leukocyte elastase, on renal scarring following direct parenchymal or intravesical ascending infection by Serratia marcescens or Escherichia coli were determined. Four days of ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Matsumoto T,Haraoka M,Mizunoe Y,Takahashi K,Kubo S,Sakumoto M,Tanaka M,Kumazawa J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolongation of repolarization dispersion (QT interval dispersion) measured from the 12-lead surface ECG has been associated with sudden cardiac death and ventricular tachyarrhythmias in a variety of cardiac disorders. The aim of our study was to assess the effects of hemodialysis (HD) and continuous ambulatory perito...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kantarci G,Ozener C,Tokay S,Bihorac A,Akoğlu E

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present prospective study was conducted in order to establish the relationship between complement activation and stimulation of phagocyte oxidative metabolism observed in long-term hemodialysis (HD) patients during the early phase of dialysis with cellulosic membranes. Two groups of 10 randomized (HD) patients tre...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Descamps-Latscha B,Goldfarb B,Nguyen AT,Landais P,London G,Haeffner-Cavaillon N,Jacquot C,Herbelin A,Kazatchkine M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified sieving technique has been developed to isolate pure glomeruli from monkey, sheep, dog, rabbit and rat kidney. Glomeruli from all these species have been grown in tissue culture and the glomerular cell outgrowth studied by light microscopy and time-lapse cinemicroscopy. The pattern of growth was the same fo...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Holdsworth SR,Glasgow EF,Atkins RC,Thomson NM

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Renal function deteriorates with age, but a few studies have addressed this longitudinally in elderly women. Our objective was, using 5 estimated glomerular filtration rates (eGFR)-equations, to evaluate changes in renal function and association with adverse outcomes for a decade in 75-year-old women. ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Malmgren L,McGuigan FE,Berglundh S,Westman K,Christensson A,Åkesson K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic renal failure was produced in rabbits by occluding the renal arteries for 90 min. Group 1 (n = 8) received radiocontrast media at the time of occlusion, group 2 (n = 8) 24 h after occlusion, and group 3 (n = 8) 3 days after occlusion. Group 4 (n = 12) was subjected to ischemic injury alone, group 5 (n = 4) se...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Schultz SG,Lavelle KJ,Swain R

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Alterations to the procurement biopsy are one of the main reasons that kidneys are not suitable for transplant and are discarded. The literature on procurement and reperfusion biopsy is inconsistent and heterogeneous. The objective of this study is to describe the correlation of the different histological ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Perez-Gutierrez A,Danz D,Chang A,Sekar P,Cummings R,Bachul PJ,Becker Y,Fung J

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Haemophilus influenzae infection is a mild and self-limited disease in the healthy population. However, it may show an aggressive course in the immunocompromised state which underlines the importance of vaccination against this agent. On the other hand, posttranplant immunosuppression may impair immune respo...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Sever MS,Yildiz A,Eraksoy H,Badur S,Yüksel-Onel D,Görçin B,Türk S,Erkoç R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:29 patients receiving haemodialysis treatment for chronic renal failure were divided into two groups on the basis of the presence or absence of bone disease as defined by radiology and bone alkaline phosphatase. The group of patient with bone disease showed a significantly greater increase in protein-bound calcium dur...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Gosling P,Naik RB,Price CP,Sammons HG,Robinson BH

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Increasing urinary net acid (titratable acid + NH4 - HCO-3) excretion is accompanied by an increased urinary Ca excretion because of reduced renal tubular reabsorption of filtered Ca. The relationships between urinary Ca excretion rates and urinary net acid excretion rates are reviewed for data: (1) among healthy adul...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Lemann J Jr

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective study with 750 peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients in a Spanish multicenter registry between 1993 and 1999 to analyze comorbidity and mortality in type 1 diabetes (T1D), type 2 diabetes (T2D) and nondiabetic (ND) patients. 163 patients (21.7%) were diabetic--96 T1D (58.8%) and 67 T2D (42.2%)...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Miguel A,García-Ramón R,Pérez-Contreras J,Gómez-Roldán C,Alvariño J,Escobedo J,García H,Lanuza M,López-Menchero R,Olivares J,Tornero F,Albero D,Levante PD Multicenter group.

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of changes in the dialysate calcium concentration on calcium fractions and parathyroid hormone species in plasma during hemodialysis has been examined. C-terminal immunoreactive parathyroid hormone was suppressed when plasma calcium increased by greater than 25% whereas N-terminal fragments demonstrated an ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： McIntosh CH,Fuchs C,Dorn D,Quellhorst E,Henning HV,Hesch RD,Scheler F

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Cerebral salt-wasting syndrome (CSWS) has been regarded as a misnomer of the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH). We take the position that CSWS does exist and might be more common than SIADH. Differentiation between groups has been difficult because of overlapping signs, symptoms, and ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Maesaka JK,Gupta S,Fishbane S

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:We attempted to treat 5 patients on CAPD with fungal peritonitis without removing the catheter. In 1 case, amphotericin B caused a severe chemical peritonitis. The other 4 patients received amphotericin B intravenously and miconazole or flucytosine intraperitoneally. Recovery was obtained in 3 cases without removing t...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Benevent D,Peyronnet P,Lagarde C,Leroux-Robert C

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preeclampsia (PE) represents an important cause of acute kidney injury during pregnancy with a high rate of both maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. The presence of endothelial dysfunction is the main cause of PE development; however, the pathogenic mechanisms are not still fully elucidated. A plethora of harm...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Pagani F,Cantaluppi V

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:We report two cases of patients with analgesic nephropathy presenting with the symptoms of hypercalcaemia, and who were found to have transitional cell carcinomas of the renal pelvis. On removal of the tumours, calcium levels fell to normal, indicating that a humoral factor produced by the tumour caused the hypercalca...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Derbyshire ND,Asscher AW,Matthews PN

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acid-base disturbances are frequent in critically ill patients. Arterial blood gas (ABG) is the gold standard in the diagnosis of these disturbances, but it is invasive with potential hazards. For patients with a central venous catheter, venous blood gas (VBG) sampling may be an alternative, less-invasive di...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Schrauben SJ,Negoianu D,Costa C,Cohen RM,Goldfarb S,Fuchs BD,Berns JS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify whether the changes of parathyroid size have any correlations with the long-term prognosis of calcitriol pulse therapy, we examined the time course of serum levels of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and size of parathyroid glands in 14 chronic dialysis patients during and after the oral calcitriol pulse therapy. ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Fukagawa M,Kitaoka M,Yi H,Fukuda N,Matsumoto T,Ogata E,Kurokawa K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a cytokine which plays an important role in the division, proliferation and migration of endothelial cells. In the kidney, VEGF expression is found in glomerular podocytes and in tubular epithelial cells, which may result in acute inflammatory reactions. METHODS:...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Prakash S,Agrawal S,Kumar S,Prasad N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ultrastructure of the bovine glomerular basement membrane (GBM) and tubular basement membrane (TBM) using ultra-high-resolution scanning electron microscopy after conductive staining without metal coating. Purified basement membranes (BMs) were obtained by sonication and acellular BMs by detergent trea...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Yamasaki Y,Makino H,Ota Z

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene polymorphism has been shown to be associated with cardiovascular disease in healthy subjects as well as in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). In this study, we examined the allelic frequency and genotype distribution of the MTHFR gene in 151 Chinese ESRD ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Lim PS,Hung WR,Wei YH

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00