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Interest of a Kidney Biopsy to Rule out ANCA-Associated Renal Vasculitis in Glomerulonephritis Patients with a Positive ANCA

open access: yesCase Reports in Nephrology and Dialysis, 2022
Kidney biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosing glomerular kidney disease. Some authors debate the necessity of systematically performing kidney biopsies in ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) to confirm the diagnosis and assess the severity of renal ...
Florian Garo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Case Report: C-Reactive Protein Apheresis in a Patient With COVID-19 and Fulminant CRP Increase

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2021
BackgroundPlasma levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), induced by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) triggering COVID-19, can rise surprisingly high.
Jens Ringel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research progress of iron deficiency in apheresis donors

open access: yesZhongguo shuxue zazhi, 2022
Objective The loss of iron stores is well documented in whole blood donors, and a large number of studies have confirmed that blood donors are at risk of iron deficiency.
Guanglin XIAO   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prognostic significance of concentric left ventricular hypertrophy at peritoneal dialysis initiation

open access: yesBMC Nephrology, 2021
Background Concentric left ventricular hypertrophy (cLVH) is a common left ventricular geometric pattern in patients undergoing maintenance dialysis, including peritoneal dialysis (PD).
Misato Tomura   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Primary antiphospholipid syndrome associated with anti-phospholipase A2 receptor antibody-positive membranous nephropathy

open access: yesBMC Nephrology, 2020
Background The kidney is a major target in primary antiphospholipid syndrome. Several types of nephropathy have been reported, the most frequent being acute or chronic specific vascular nephropathies and membranous nephropathy.
Maxime Teisseyre   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Study on the production efficiency of platelet components in 24 prefecture-level blood stations in China

open access: yesZhongguo shuxue zazhi, 2022
Objective To learn the production efficient of platelet components among prefecture-level blood stations in China, to provide supporting data for those blood stations to optimize the production mode of platelet components and continuously improve ...
Minyu HUA   +25 more
doaj   +1 more source

Red Blood Cell Transfusions in Greece: Results of a Survey of Red Blood Cell Use in 2013

open access: yesTurkish Journal of Hematology, 2017
Objective: Greece is ranked as the second highest consumer of blood components in Europe. For an effective transfusion system and in order to reduce variability of transfusion practice by implementing evidence-based transfusion guidelines it is necessary
Serena Valsami   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tocilizumab and Active Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplantation: A Literature Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2022
IntroductionChronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major public-health problem that increases the risk of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), cardiovascular diseases, and other complications.
Lara Cabezas   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

SARS-CoV-2 IgG spike protein antibody response in mRNA-1273 Moderna® vaccinated patients on maintenance immunoapheresis – a cohort study

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2022
BackgroundThe SARS-CoV-2 pandemic increased mortality and morbidity among immunocompromised populations. Vaccination is the most important preventive measure, however, its effectiveness among patients depending on maintenance immunoglobulin G (IgG ...
Martina Gaggl   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Apheresis In Developing Countries Around The World

open access: yes, 2016
At the combined American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) Annual Meeting/World Apheresis Association (WAA) Congress in San Francisco, California, in April of 2014, the opening session highlighted the status of apheresis outside of the United States.
Jr.; Comenalli Marques   +9 more
core   +2 more sources

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