Value of quantitative ultrasound and bioelectrical impedance analysis in detecting low bone mineral density in hemodialysis.

abstract：:A case of severe prolonged acute renal failure with a histological picture of acute tubulointerstitial lesions in an adult patient with Henoch-Schoenlein purpura after an episode of macroscopic hematuria is described. The macroscopic hematuria lasted only for 5 days and the renal biopsy was performed 50 days after the...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Michail S,Stathakis C,Nakopoulou L,Aroni K,Revenas K,Avdikou K,Vaiopoulos G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethylene-di-bromide is a popular fumigant. Delayed long-term effects of this chemical include carcinogenicity and genotoxicity in animals. Only a few cases of acute ethylene-di-bromide toxicity have been reported and all of them have resulted in a fatal outcome. We report the first case of ethylene-di-bromide poisonin...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Prakash MS,Sud K,Kohli HS,Jha V,Gupta KL,Sakhuja V

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A successful prevention of renal diseases induced by occupational or environmental exposure to toxic metals such as mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), or cadmium (Cd) largely relies on the capability to detect nephrotoxic effects at a stage when they are still reversible or at least not yet compromising renal function. The know...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Roels HA,Hoet P,Lison D

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual differences in susceptibility may be caused by genetical as well as external variables. In mice as well as rats, autoimmune response can be induced by mercury or gold. The present data demonstrates that the autoimmune response depends qualitatively on the H-2 haplotype. If a strain of mice does not have the...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Nielsen JB,Hultman P

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium clearance measurements are based on the observation that lithium undergoes isoosmotic reabsorption in the proximal renal tubule to the same extent as salt and water, but undergoes neither reabsorption nor secretion elsewhere in the nephron. Consequently, lithium clearance values estimate the delivery of isoosm...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Whiting PH

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural antierythrocytic antibodies may be stimulated by bacterial antigens and the immune type may occur as a result of pregnancy or blood transfusions. The prevalence increases with the number of red cell units transfused. Specificity, on the other hand, depends on ethnic backgrounds. The clinical importance of thes...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Angulo IL,Lima EG

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to examine the usefulness of 2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) for the purpose of reducing cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (DDP)-induced nephrotoxicity and effective clinical use of DDP and safe. The effectiveness of DMSA on the DDP-excretion in rat kidney was observed by measuring the pla...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Mishima K,Hidaka S,Takamura N,Shinozawa S

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The objective of this study was to evaluate the percentage of unrecognized renal damage in patients with normal creatinine and urea in serum and normal creatinine clearance and to evaluate the usefulness of various proteins and enzymes as supplementary procedures for the investigation of renal function. M...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Dehne MG,Mühling J,Papke G,Nopens H,Kuntzsch U,Hempelmann G

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lipoprotein abnormalities characteristic of renal dyslipoproteinemia are significantly associated with different stages of chronic renal insufficiency. The renal dyslipoproteinemia may contribute not only to accelerated development of atherosclerosis but also to progression of human chronic renal insufficien...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Kimak E,Solski J,Janicka L

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors that affect the absorption of cyclosporin A (CsA) were examined in gentamicin-induced acute renal failure (ARF) rats. In ARF rats, the area under the blood CsA concentration-time curve after oral administration was significantly decreased in comparison with that of control rats; 5.81 +/- 0.55 vs 11.30 +/- 1.59...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Shibata N,Morimoto J,Hoshino N,Minouchi T,Yamaji A

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HELLP syndrome, a syndrome of hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelets may occur in pregnancy with pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, and its a significant complication is acute renal failure (ARF). The aim of study was to determine frequency and outcome of HELLP syndrome complicated by ARF. Thirty-nine patients with...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Selçuk NY,Odabas AR,Cetinkaya R,Tonbul HZ,San A

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of IgM on immunofluorescence in renal biopsy specimens remains unclear. This retrospective case study was conducted to define the clinical features, response to therapy and outcome of patients with Mesangioproliferative Glomerulonephritis (MGN) with diffuse IgM deposition. Of 1919 native renal biopsie...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Little MA,Dorman A,Gill D,Walshe JJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular disease accounts for almost half of the total mortality in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). It has recently been debated whether coronary revascularization has the same rate of risks and successes in this cohort of patients compared to patients without renal disease. Since 1991, 17 dialysis...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Rollino C,Formica M,Minelli M,Boero R,Beltrame G,Bonello F,Pignataro A,Borsa S,Quarello F

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological study of the kidney is generally the first step in the diagnosis of Alport's syndrome. Light microscopy study allows to suggest the diagnosis with the association of focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis, GBM anomalies when studied with silver staining, interstitial foam cells, and negative standard imm...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Noël LH

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 56-year-old woman with end stage renal failure, who has an unusual complication in relation to catheter placement. She started hemodialysis in 1992 and until October of 1996 had many arteriovenous fistulas in her upper arms and we placed a lot of grafts. Because she had no vascular access for hemodialysi...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Sotirakopoulos N,Skandalos L,Tsitsios T,Stambolidou M,Karamoschos K,Mavromatidis K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Changes in renal hemodynamics are suspected to be one of the major pathogenetic correlates in radiocontrast media-induced nephrotoxicity. We investigated whether color-coded duplex sonography is an appropriate method to document changes in intrarenal vascular resistance, after intravenous injection of the ...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Hetzel GR,May P,Hollenbeck M,Voiculescu A,Mödder U,Grabensee B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the organ system failures hospital mortality predictions in critically ill patients with acute renal failure requiring dialysis. DESIGN:Prospective, cohort study. SETTING:Intensive care units in a tertiary care university hospital in Taiwan. PATIENTS:A total of 112 patients admitted to the inte...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Chen YC,Chen CY,Tien YC,Fang JT,Huang CC

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determinants of glomerular capillary wall (GCW) permeability to proteins have been subject of controversial discussion. To study this question we have developed a modified isolated perfused rat kidney model in which tubular transport processes are completely blocked by perfusion fixation with glutaraldehyde. This ...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Ciarimboli G,Bökenkamp A,Schurek HJ,Fels LM,Kilian I,Maess B,Stolte H

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive renal injury in diabetes mellitus leads to major morbidity and mortality. The manifestations of diabetic nephropathy may be a consequence of the actions of certain cytokines and growth factors. Prominent among these is transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) because it promotes renal cell hypertrophy an...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Chen S,Hong SW,Iglesias-de la Cruz MC,Isono M,Casaretto A,Ziyadeh FN

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FMF Amyloidosis is an important etiological factor of end stage renal disease (ESRD) in Mediterranean Countries. Apart from major target organs as cardiovascular, respiratory and gastrointestinal system, endocrine organs can also be involved. We planned to investigate the thyroid involvement in our amyloidosis group. ...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Ozdemir BH,Akman B,Ozdemir FN

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the rare complication of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) in an elderly patient with the uncommon scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) at the advanced age of 85 years. Initially, she was treated by standard daily one and a half plasma volume therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE), in combination with steroid t...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Kfoury Baz EM,Mahfouz RA,Masri AF,Jamaleddine GW

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral femoral neck fractures are rarely reported in patients with end-stage renal disease before chronic dialysis. We report on a 39-year-old woman with neglected bilateral femoral neck fractures, who presented with severe uremic complications prior to chronic dialysis. Three years before admission, she had injure...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Hung KH,Lee CT,Gau YL,Chen JB

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To guide the administration of fat emulsion in the nutritional support of acute renal failure (ARF), pharmacokinetic analysis with an one-compartment open model after bolus intravenous injection was performed to compare the elimination kinetics of long-chain triglycerides (LCT) and medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) in ...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Ge Y,Xu Y,Liao L

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the release of proteases from neutrophils infiltrated into the peritoneal cavity in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), we investigated the regulation of CD43, LAM-1 and Mac-1 expression on the neutrophil plasma membrane using FACS analysis in CAPD patients with peritonitis. Five CAPD patients ...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Shiota J,Kubota M,Abe M,Shirai T,Shimada N,Koide H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] concentrations and apolipoprotein(a) apo(a) phenotypes were determined in 81 hemodialysis (HD) patients, 37 chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients, 25 post-transplant patients and 99 healthy subjects as the reference group. The CAPD patients had significantly higher serum L...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Kimak E,Solski J

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated perfusion of the rat kidney causes hypoxic damage in the cells of the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle. The cell damage is driven by active solute transport, which generates an imbalance of oxygen supply and demand. This injury is paradoxically prevented by adding the mitochondrial electron transport...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Shanley PF,Johnson GC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant enzymes, catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase (SOD), in renal transplant patients and at the same time to report on the degree of lipid peroxidation observed in these patients. In order to do so we measured erythrocyte malondialdehyde (MDA), a product of lipid p...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Pérez Fernandez R,Martín Mateo MC,De Vega L,Bustamante Bustamante J,Herrero M,Bustamante Munguira E

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work is to study the temporary variation of oxidative stress in renal transplants, both in plasma and in erythrocytes (CR). In order to do so, we determined total glutathione (GST) levels, both oxidized (GSSG) and reduced (GSH), and the activity of enzymes, glutathione peroxidase (G-px), glutathione re...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： De Vega L,Férnandez RP,Mateo MC,Bustamante JB,Herrero AM,Munguira EB

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cyclosporine A (CSA) administration, started as early as renal lesion is induced, on the development of Adriamycin-induced nephropathy were assessed by comparing the time course of this nephropathy in rats receiving CSA with that in non-treated animals (group ADR) over 16 weeks. Throughout the experimen...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Japaulo EG,Soares V

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycosides are widely used in the treatment of gram-negative bacterial infections. Gentamicin (GE) acts mainly in proximal tubular cells, where it is uptake via organic anion transport system and it induces a high incidence of nephrotoxicity, which is characterized by tubular necrosis leading to acute renal failu...

journal_title：Renal failure

authors： Cunha MA,Schor N

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00