Impact of baseline health-related quality of life scores on survival of incident patients on peritoneal dialysis: a cohort study.

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：:A study was undertaken in 24 Chinese patients on maintenance continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, using bezafibrate in its sustained-release form to correct lipid abnormalities. Six patients who received 400 mg/day developed severe muscle weakness with grossly elevated creatine phosphokinase activities within 3 ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Chan MK

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:In order to estimate a regenerative response in the early phase after renal ischemia-reperfusion in rat, we examined the time course of the activation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) as a response of signal transduction pathway after 45 min ischemia in kidney. The activation of EGFR was observed 5-30 min af...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Yano T,Yazima S,Hagiwara K,Ozasa H,Ishizuka S,Horikawa S

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a renal transplant recipient with colchicine-induced myopathy is presented. He was on colchicine therapy for 10 months. He was hospitalized for investigation of fatigue, severe myalgia in the lower extremities and elevated serum aminotransferase levels. His viral markers and other factors that may cause myal...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Caglar K,Safali M,Yavuz I,Odabaşi Z,Yenicesu M,Vural A

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 57-year-old man with end-stage renal failure due to chronic glomerulonephritis, who had been on hemodialysis for 13.5 years and had suffered from recurrent painful swelling of the left leg for 4.7 years. A diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis was made by the phlebography. Coagulation studies showed decreas...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Maruyama H,Gejyo F,Hanano M,Arakawa M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cultured peripheral-blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to release interleukin-1 alpha and beta (IL-1 alpha, IL-1 beta) in response to concanavalin A (con A) was investigated in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) and in renal transplant recipients. Mean IL-1 alpha level released by PBMC of healthy sub...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kang XX,Hirano T,Oka K,Tamaki T,Sakurai E,Kaji N,Yoshida M,Kozaki M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of dilazep, an adenosine potentiator and platelet aggregation inhibitor, on experimental diabetic nephropathy was investigated in spontaneous diabetic Chinese hamster. Prediabetic animals, 8 weeks of age, were divided into two groups. In one group, 5 mg/kg dilazep was injected i.p. once a day. In the other ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Morikawa A,Eto M,Makino I

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By April 26, 2020, infections related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affected people from 210 countries and caused 203,818 reported deaths worldwide. A few studies discussed the outcome of COVID-19 in kidney transplant recipients. This short series demonstrates our experience in managing COVID-19 disease in re...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Elhadedy MA,Marie Y,Halawa A

更新日期：2020-12-08 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：:Clearance and in vitro microperfusion studies were performed in rabbits to determine the effect of cisplatin on proximal straight tubule transport of calcium and magnesium. Rabbits were injected with cisplatin (2.5 mg/kg i.p. once weekly) for 3 weeks, whereas control rabbits received normal saline solution which serve...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Wong NL,Sutton RA,Dirks JH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ischemia on renal blood flow (RBF) in the rat has been an unsettled question. This study used a totally extractable indicator, radioactive microspheres, with a reference arterial sample, to study RBF quantitatively 10 and 60 min after 1 h of unilateral renal artery clamping in anesthetized, heparinized r...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Riley AL

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific lipid alterations in plasma and four different tissues, as well as the activities of plasma lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) and tissue lipolytic enzymes were determined in experimental nephrotic and control rats. In nephrotic rats, the cholesterol level in the heart was significantly increased...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Agbedana ED,Yamamoto T,Moriwaki Y,Suda M,Takahashi S,Higashino K

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Exaggerated natriuresis in response to hypertonic saline infusion occurs with great regularity in patients with documented previous attacks of poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis. Five patients were studied before and after 1 week of dietary sodium restriction in order to examine the possibility that increased extrac...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Schacht RG,Steele JM Jr,Lowenstein J,Baldwin DS

更新日期：1977-01-01 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：:Computerized tomography (CT) has the advantage of allowing the isolation of trabecular bone of the axial skeleton, which is the more sensitive to metabolic changes. By means of single-energy X-ray CT we have devised a method for assessing trabecular bone mass (TBM) at L-4 vertebral body, which has an acceptable reprod...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Torres A,Lorenzo V,Gonzalez-Posada JM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gradual loss of cell viability was observed during in vitro incubation of peritoneal cells from chronically uremic mice in commercial peritoneal dialysis solutions. The magnitude of this cytotoxicity toward peritoneal cells harvested from uremic mice and controls was comparable. Resident peritoneal cells were always...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Gallimore B,Gagnon RF,Stevenson MM

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：: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 effect of water immersion to the neck on renal calcium and magnesium handling was studied in 11 nephrotic patients. There was an increase in the urinary excretion of both calcium and magnesium on immersion, and a return towards preimmersion control values in the hour following immersion. Clearances of calcium and ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Brown C,Sutton JV,Adler A,Feinroth MV,Feinroth M,Friedman EA,Berlyne GM

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Children with a solitary functioning kidney have a risk of renal injury caused by hyperfiltration. Timely intervention with renin-angiotensin inhibitors may be beneficial. We examined whether trajectory of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) would predict renal injury, defined as microalbuminuri...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Matsumura K,Sugii K,Awazu M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conglomerates of food and mucus or phytobezoars composed of vegetable matter are sometimes found in the stomach in the general population. Reports of phytobezoars in uremic patients are, however, scarce. Here we describe 2 uremic patients in which esophagogastroduodenoscopy was performed due to dyspepsia associated wi...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Catalano C,Leone L,Fabbian F,Conz PA

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mean renal blood flow (MRBF), cortical blood flow (CBF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), heart rate, arterial blood pressure, Na+ and K+ excretion were determined before and 10 min after intrarenal administration of dihydroergocristine (0.017 mg/kg b.w.) in 13 patients suffering from liver cirrhosis. Cardiac output ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Gatta A,Merkel C,Grassetto M,Milani L,Zuin R,Ruol A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During hemodialysis, platelets are activated across a dialyzer. Soluble P-selectin (sP-selectin) is a form of P-selectin which is a glycoprotein relocated from secretory granules to the surfaces of platelets and endothelial cells after these cells have been physiologically activated. To investigate whether sP-selectin...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kawabata K,Nagake Y,Shikata K,Fukuda S,Nakazono H,Takahashi M,Ichikawa H,Makino H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the plasma determinations of erythropoietic (EPO) and transferrin receptor (TfR) would provide a good characterization of anemia especially when mixed erythron disorders underlie, such as in renal failure. Immunologic assays of EPO and TfR, as well as standard hematologic determinations (hematocrit, reticulocyte ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： de Paoli Vitali E,Ricci G,Perini L,Malacarne F,Vedovato M,Guerra G,Dapporto M,Gilli P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstructed shunt vessels were studied immunohistochemically to clarify the mechanism of shunt obstruction in hemodialysis patients. The subjects were 12 hemodialysis patients with shunt obstruction, and 8 patients newly started on hemodialysis were used as the controls. Cryosections of shunt tissue were prepared and s...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Taniguchi Y,Yorioka N,Yamashita K,Masaki T,Yamakido M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:136 patients on hemodialysis, 89 males and 47 females, were studied; we evaluated the index of hepatic function (SGOT and SGPT) and antibodies against HCV. We observed 42 cases of increased transaminases classified as non-A, non-B (NANB) hepatitis. Antibodies against HCV were present in 40 patients. Among 42 patients ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： La Russa A,Bufano G,Cauzzi L,Pecchini P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The introduction of automated biopsy devices and the localization of the kidney by ultrasound were aimed at optimizing efficacy and safety of the percutaneous renal biopsy procedure. We evaluated these technological advances in our renal biopsies performed in children. METHODS:We sequentially used the Silve...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Feneberg R,Schaefer F,Zieger B,Waldherr R,Mehls O,Schärer K

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00