Maimonides: physician and nephrologist.

abstract：:Two patients who developed bilateral renal cortical necrosis as a consequence of Neisseria meningitidis infections are described: 1 patient had meningococcemia and the other had meningococcal meningitis. Both patients developed a Shwartzman-like reaction, disseminated intravascular coagulation and irreversible renal f...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Chervu I,Koss M,Campese VM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Home dialysis patients may be at an increased risk of adverse events after transitional states. The home dialysis virtual ward (HDVW) trial was conducted in Canadian dialysis centers and aimed to evaluate potential care gaps and patient satisfaction during the HDVW. METHODS:The HDVW was a multicenter single...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Nadeau-Fredette AC,Chan CT,Bargman JM,Copland MA,Finkle SN,Oliver MJ,Pauly RP,Perl J,Shah NA,Zimmerman DL,Tennankore KK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terminal complement-inhibitor eculizumab has dramatically changed the management of patients with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), and has also shown promise for treating certain forms of secondary HUS (sHUS), including that caused by drugs and solid-organ/hematopoietic stem cell transplant. While effect...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Olson SR,Lu E,Sulpizio E,Shatzel JJ,Rueda JF,DeLoughery TG

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effect of multiple dialyzer use on intradialytic symptoms, data from 26,592 successive dialyses on 147 patients were analyzed. Over the 26-month period of study 4,933 new dialyzers were used. All symptoms, considered together, occurred 1.3 times more frequently during the initial than during the subse...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Robson MD,Charoenpanich R,Kant KS,Peterson DW,Flynn J,Cathey M,Pollak VE

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medical history of salt begins in ancient times and is closely related to different aspects of human history. Salt may be extracted from sea water, mineral deposits, surface encrustations, saline lakes and brine springs. In many inland areas, wood was used as a fuel source for evaporation of brine and this practic...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Cirillo M,Capasso G,Di Leo VA,De Santo NG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 29-year-old female with recurrent focal glomerulosclerosis (FGS) presenting as heavy proteinuria immediately following renal transplantation. From day 13 after transplantation, daily plasma exchange was performed 6 times. Proteinuria decreased from 13 to 0.2 g/day after plasma exchange and remained to be l...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Li PK,Lai FM,Leung CB,Lui SF,Wang A,Lai KN

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of the duration of anuria to the recovery in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was studied in 71 children with diarrhea-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome. A significant relationship was found, and regression analysis revealed that y = 114.61 - 5.68 x, where y is predicted GFR (ml/min/1.73 m2) and x ...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Robson WL,Leung AK,Brant R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malnutrition-inflammation score (MIS) is a comprehensive and quantitative system to assess malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome, and a strong correlation between MIS and morbidity/mortality in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients had been demonstrated. However, there is no cut-off value of MIS to ca...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Ho LC,Wang HH,Peng YS,Chiang CK,Huang JW,Hung KY,Hu FC,Wu KD

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypercholesterolemia is one of the major manifestations of nephrotic syndrome. We have previously shown that nephrotic hypercholesterolemia is associated with and, in part, due to dysregulation of hepatic HMG-CoA reductase, acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) and cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase, as we...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Vaziri ND,Liang K

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:45 bone biopsies from patients with chronic uremia were reviewed to define which noninvasive investigations were of value in predicting the histological diagnosis and to quantify the spectrum of uremic bone disease at a center that has consistently used an aluminum-free dialysis bath. 17 biopsies were taken postmortem...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Heaf JG,Joffe P,Pødenphant J,Andersen JR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the prevalence and clinical implications of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) in lupus nephritis (LN), we examined ANCA by indirect immunofluorescence and by ELISA against antilactoferrin (anti-LF) and antimyeloperoxidase (anti-MPO) antibody. To discriminate perinuclear ANCA (pANCA) with antinucl...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Chin HJ,Ahn C,Lim CS,Chung HK,Lee JG,Song YW,Lee HS,Han JS,Kim S,Lee JS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overt albuminuria (urinary albumin-creatinine ratio [ACR] > 300 mg/g) is an established risk factor for progression of nephropathy and total mortality. However, whether a reduction in ACR translates into a reduction in mortality and/or cardiovascular (CV) events among insulin-treated patients with type 2 dia...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Anyanwagu U,Donnelly R,Idris I

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Three million people in the United States are estimated to have chronic kidney disease (CKD). Management of these CKD patients in the outpatient primary care clinic setting has not been well studied. HYPOTHESIS:Primary care management of CKD can be assessed and opportunities for improvement can be identifie...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Israni A,Korzelius C,Townsend R,Mesler D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out a prospective 2-year study on the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in a chronic dialysis unit with a high prevalence (11%) of the infection. Only 1 of 45 HIV-negative patients seroconverted, and this was related to the administration of contaminated blood. We conclude that cu...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Perez GO,Ortiz C,De Medina M,Schiff E,Bourgoignie JJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies on end-of-life (EOL) care among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have been largely limited to White hemodialysis patients. In this study, we sought to explore racial variability in EOL communication, care preferences and advance care planning (ACP) among patients with advanced CKD ...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Eneanya ND,Wenger JB,Waite K,Crittenden S,Hazar DB,Volandes A,Temel JS,Thadhani R,Paasche-Orlow MK

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meeting on the History of Nephrology is an opportunity to discuss the links between science and faith which were split until the 6th century. However, this was changed by Cassiodorus and monasticism. From the times of Abbot Bertario (died 883 AD) in Montecassino, medicine was regarded as an art and a science. Codex ...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： D'Onorio B

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Conditionally immortalized podocytes are valuable research tools but are difficult to efficiently transfect and do not provide graded transgene expression. METHODS:Conditionally immortalized mouse podocyte cell lines were established employing a tetracycline-inducible system. Glomerular cells, isolated from...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Kajiyama H,Titus S,Austin CP,Chiotos K,Matsumoto T,Sakairi T,Kopp JB

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of biopsy material from human kidneys with different forms of glomerulonephritis (n = 1,240) and with diabetic glomerulosclerosis (n = 406) performed in order to find changes caused by hyperperfusion of the kidney tissue gave the following results: (1) Hyperperfusion injury occurs in the different forms...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Bohle A,Biwer E,Christensen JA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperkalemia is a commonly encountered problem in dialysis patients with end-stage renal disease. In this study we evaluated the effect of mineralocorticoid therapy (MCT; fludrocortisone 0.1-0.3 mg per os daily) on serum potassium of hyperkalemic end-stage renal disease patients. Consecutive monthly clinical and bioch...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Singhal PC,Desroches L,Mattana J,Abramovici M,Wagner JD,Maesaka JK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid-base balance of 199 patients with cystic fibrosis, seen from 1987 through 1992 at the Bern Outpatient Clinic, were evaluated. Simple metabolic alkalosis was demonstrated in 16 and mixed metabolic alkalosis and respiratory acidosis in 9 patients. When compared with 10 patients with simple respiratory acidosis ...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Pedroli G,Liechti-Gallati S,Mauri S,Birrer P,Kraemer R,Foletti-Jäggi C,Bianchetti MG

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is still debate as to the preferred extracorporeal treatment modality for severe lithium intoxication. Because lithium is readily diffusable, intermittent hemodialysis is usually performed. However, this bares the risk of a post-dialysis rebound concentration and, in the case of severe lithium poisoning collapse...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： van Bommel EF,Kalmeijer MD,Ponssen HH

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one renal transplant recipients, submitted to treatment with cyclosporin in association with other immunosuppressive agents, were also treated for 9 months with two hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors, simvastatin (10 mg/day) or pravastatin (20 mg/day), for concomitant hypercholesterolemia and...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Capone D,Stanziale P,Gentile A,Imperatore P,Pellegrino T,Basile V

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Current status of primary hyperoxaluria (PH) has not been surveyed in Japan. METHODS:Japanese patients with PH were reviewed in the published literature. RESULTS:Fifty-nine patients were diagnosed as PH from 1962 to 2003. The median ages both at diagnosis and at the onset of initial symptoms were 17 (...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Takayama T,Nagata M,Ichiyama A,Ozono S

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic dysfunction was observed in 34 patients with nontraumatic rhabdomyolysis. The serum levels of lactic dehydrogenase were markedly elevated in all patients. The peak values occurred within 72 h of hospitalization. There was no significant difference among patients with (9,044 +/- 1,154 U/l) and without acute ren...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Akmal M,Massry SG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasingly common and disproportionately affects older adults. The contribution of kidney disease to the functional impairment noted in the elderly CKD population is unclear. METHODS:This is a cross-sectional analysis of a hypertensive cohort of people aged ≥75 years from t...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Wolfgram DF,Garcia K,Evans G,Zamanian S,Tang R,Wiegmann T,Sharma R,Campbell R,Whittle J,SPRINT Study Research Group.

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to find out whether Ramadan fasting would affect the renal function in kidney transplant recipients with normal or impaired graft function. Twenty-three transplant recipients, 17 with a normal function and 6 with an impaired but stable function with plasma creatinine levels not exceeding 300...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Abdalla AH,Shaheen FA,Rassoul Z,Owda AK,Popovich WF,Mousa DH,al-Hawas F,al-Sulaiman MH,al-Khader AA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Post-renal transplant recurrent glomerulonephritis (GN) contributes to allograft loss. Rituximab treatment has been used in a multidose strategy with variable efficacy and toxicity. We investigated a novel single-dose approach. METHODS:A single center, retrospective, cohort study was conducted between ...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Spinner ML,Bowman LJ,Horwedel TA,Delos Santos RB,Klein CL,Brennan DC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Man-made or massive natural disasters may be followed by 'epidemics' of the muscle crush syndrome. The first descriptions of the crush syndrome were in the German-language literature following the earthquake of Messina in 1909 and World War II. On the threshold of World War II, the English-language literature was stil...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Better OS

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The optimal level of serum ferritin (s-ft) for anemia control and good survival in hemodialysis (HD) patients remains unclear. A 10-year survey was performed to clarify the appropriate quantities of s-ft and investigate the relationships among s-ft, transferrin saturation (TSAT), and mortality in HD patients...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Ogawa C,Tsuchiya K,Kanda F,Maeda T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:African Americans (AAs) suffer the widest gaps in chronic kidney disease (CKD) outcomes compared to Caucasian Americans (CAs) and this is because of the disparities that exist in both health and healthcare. In fact, the prevalence of CKD is 3.5 times higher in AAs compared to CAs. The disparities exist at al...

journal_title：American journal of nephrology

authors： Harding K,Mersha TB,Vassalotti JA,Webb FA,Nicholas SB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00