A magnetic resonance imaging study of destructive spondyloarthropathy in long-term hemodialysis patients.

abstract：:Patients with familial lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) deficiency very often show progressive glomerulosclerosis with evolution to end-stage disease. High levels of an abnormal lipoprotein (lipoprotein X) cause glomerular capillary endothelial damage. The ultrastructural study of renal biopsy specimens sho...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Sessa A,Battini G,Meroni M,Daidone G,Carnera I,Brambilla PL,Viganò G,Giordano F,Pallotti F,Torri Tarelli L,Calabresi L,Rolleri M,Bertolini S

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Idiopathic membranous nephropathy remains the leading cause of nephrotic syndrome in Caucasian adults. Immunosuppressive therapy with cyclosporine (CSA) is often successful in reducing proteinuria, but its use is associated with a high relapse rate. Rituximab, a monoclonal antibody that specifically targets ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Fervenza FC,Canetta PA,Barbour SJ,Lafayette RA,Rovin BH,Aslam N,Hladunewich MA,Irazabal MV,Sethi S,Gipson DS,Reich HN,Brenchley P,Kretzler M,Radhakrishnan J,Hebert LA,Gipson PE,Thomas LF,McCarthy ET,Appel GB,Jeffers

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1991, to assess the risk of occupational exposure to blood or other body fluids in health-care workers (HCWs) working in the dialysis setting, properly trained interviewers used standardized questionnaires asking the 583 HCWs employed in 19 Italian dialysis units to recall exposures sustained in the previous year. ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ippolito G,Petrosillo N,Puro V,Arici C,Jagger J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of isotonic mannitol and saline in the early phase of mercuric chloride-(HgCl2-)induced acute renal failure (ARF) in the dog was evaluated. During the first 3 h after HgCl2 alone, glomerular filtration rate (GFR) fell from 1.94 +/- 0.14 to 1.04 +/- 0.11 and renal blood flow (RBF) from 13.99 +/- 1.18 to 7.28...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Vanholder R,Leusen I,Lameire N

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 100 patients followed for 1-4 years after successful renal transplantation was undertaken to assess the amelioration of previously present metabolic bone disease and to determine the risk factors associated with the development of osteonecrosis. 42% of patients showed some evidence of bony abn...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Gottlieb MN,Stephens MK,Lowrie EG,Griffiths HJ,Kenzora J,Strom TB,Lazarus JM,Tilney NL,Merrill JP

更新日期：1978-01-01 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：:A retrospective analysis of renal vein renin results has been done in 96 patients with renal artery stenosis and hypertension studied in two Italian centers (Sassari and Pisa) with respect to the outcome of either surgery or percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA). In all patients the renal vein renin ratio and th...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Rappelli A,Glorioso N,Madeddu P,Dessì-Fulgheri P,Leoni C,Fiori C,Manca GB,Sanna G,Arzilli F,Pedrinelli R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The daily loss of apolipoproteins into the dialysate from 5 patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) was measured. The mean excretion of apolipoprotein (apo) AI and apo AII, major proteins of high-density lipoproteins (HDL), were 84 and 17 mg/day, respectively, while that of apo B, a major protein ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Saku K,Sasaki J,Naito S,Arakawa K

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:25 patients undergoing regular haemodialysis for chronic renal failure underwent Holter ECG monitoring for a continuous 48-hour period covering dialysis and the intermediate period of everyday activity at home. A low dialysate potassium concentration (1.7 mEq/l) was used. Clinically significant arrhythmias (greater th...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Kyriakidis M,Voudiclaris S,Kremastinos D,Robinson-Kyriakidis C,Vyssoulis G,Zervakis D,Toutouzas P,Komninos Z,Avgoustakis D

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied complexes composed of C1q and beta 2-microglobulin (C1q.beta 2M) or serum amyloid P-component (C1q.SAP) in the sera of 38 patients receiving hemodialysis (HD) and 20 healthy control subjects using an enzyme-linked immunoassay. We also compared complex levels in HD patients with and without symptoms of HD-as...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Hasegawa M,Kawashima S,Shikano M,Kojima K,Yanai T,Hassegawa H,Tomita M,Murakami K,Kawamura N,Katsumata H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a crucial event in the development of renal interstitial fibrosis (RIF). A growing body of evidence indicates that β-catenin plays an important role in various types of fibrosis. Although members of the microRNA (miRNA)-200 family have been suggested to suppress...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Gong Y,Qin Z,Zhou B,Chen H,Shi Z,Zhang J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal nerves were stimulated either directly (loop electrodes) or indirectly (bilateral carotid occlusion with maintenance of control blood pressure) in anesthetized dogs to determine the effects on renal blood flow (RBF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), sodium excretion (UNaV), and intrarenal distribution of blood ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Katz MA,Shear L

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：: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：:Cadmium-induced renal effects were followed (1989) in 16 workers previously exposed to cadmium, who had been shown 5 years earlier to have had tubular damage; all but 1 worker had persistent tubular damage (beta 2-microglobulin > 60 micrograms/mmol creatinine). The mean glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decreased from ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Järup L,Persson B,Edling C,Elinder CG

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Hypokalemia and potassium depletion are frequent complications of amphotericin B therapy. Both ischemic and gentamicin-induced renal failure is potentiated by potassium depletion; it is, therefore, possible that amphotericin B nephrotoxicity is similarly influenced. This study evaluated whether the acute nephrotoxic r...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Bernardo JF,Murakami S,Branch RA,Sabra R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 51-year-old man with diabetes mellitus and the nephrotic syndrome on renal biopsy was found to have diabetic glomerulosclerosis, amyloidosis and membranous glomerulopathy. The presence of three distinct glomerular diseases in the same patient is unique. Possible factors involved in their pathogenesis are discussed a...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Bertani T,Olesnicky L,Abu-Regiaba S,Glasberg S,Pirani CL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the regulation of vasopressin receptors in an animal model of hypertension, localization and age-related changes in renal arginine vasopressin (AVP) receptors in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were investigated using in vitro (macro) autoradiography and a radiolabeled receptor assay. Autoradiograp...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Hosoya M,Ogura T,Watanabe H,Ota Z,Kageyama Z

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Collagenolytic activity of rat kidneys with streptozotocin diabetes was estimated by means of a biological collagenase assay and compared to healthy controls. Collagenolytic activity was found significantly decreased in rat kidneys with diabetes correlating with blood glucose levels (r = -0.82, p less than 0.001). Ele...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Lubec G,Leban J,Peyroux J,Sternberg M,Pollak A,Latzka U,Coradello H

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A few cases of nephrotic syndrome with the glomerular deposition of an amyloid-like material which did not stain with Congo red have been documented. But extrarenal deposits have not been previously reported in this disease. We describe here a case of nephrotic syndrome associated with the deposition of an amyloid-lik...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Ozawa K,Yamabe H,Fukushi K,Osawa H,Chiba N,Miyata M,Seino S,Inuma H,Sasaki T,Yoshikawa S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional ultrastructure of glomerular basement membrane (GBM) in surgically resected human kidneys was observed by the quick-freezing and deep-etching method. In three layers of human GBM, the middle layer exhibited polygonal meshwork structures, which were composed of fine fibrils. In addition, the outer...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Moriya T,Ohno S,Yajima Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 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

abstract：:Previous studies of IgA nephropathy have demonstrated a number of prognostically significant clinical and pathological factors in groups of patients with the full histological spectrum of the disease. Whether these factors can be applied to a group of IgA nephropathy patients with disease of moderate degree is unknown...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Magil AB,Ballon HS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gender-biased outcomes are associated with acute kidney injury (AKI) and human and animal studies have shown that females are preferentially protected from renal ischemia. However, the reason for this is not known. One clue might lie with pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which are triggers of ischemic i...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： DeWolf SE,Shigeoka AA,Scheinok A,Kasimsetty SG,Welch AK,McKay DB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1,026 patients undergoing haemodialysis as the only chronic treatment were studied in all the dialysis units of the Veneto region, Italy. Aluminium was determined in water, dialysis fluids, and patients' serum. Aluminium mean concentration was 9.1 micrograms/l in tap water and 13.3 and 15.7 micrograms/l in ...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Piccoli A,Andriani M,Mattiello G,Nordio M,Modena F,Dalla Rosa C

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To eliminate the discomfort caused by surgical methods and the risks involved using the trocar, for 1 year we have been using a new technique for insertion of peritoneal catheters (PC). We devised a steel instrument, vaguely resembling a rhinoscope, composed of two semicones. The handles are connected by a screw to pe...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Di Paolo N,Manganelli A,Strappaveccia F,De Mia M,Gaggiotti E

更新日期：1985-01-01 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

abstract：:A 64-year-old woman presenting with a history of increasing oedema was found to have nephrotic syndrome with a 24-hour urinary protein excretion of 20.7 g and renal impairment with an initial serum creatinine level of 197 mumol/l (2.16 mg/dl). A renal tumour was demonstrated by ultrasound scanning and subsequent nephr...

journal_title：Nephron

authors： Woodrow G,Innes A,Ansell ID,Burden RP

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00