Changes in metabolic parameters and adverse kidney and cardiovascular events during glomerulonephritis and renal vasculitis treatment in patients with and without diabetes mellitus [PDF]
Kidney Research and Clinical Practice, 2021 Background Cardiovascular disease causes significant morbidity and mortality in patients with glomerulonephritis, which is increasingly diagnosed in older individuals who may have diabetes mellitus (DM). We evaluated the impact of DM on metabolic profile,
Cynthia C. Lim +6 more
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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in patients with chronic venous catheters: a case report and literature review. [PDF]
, 2014 Chronic indwelling catheters have been reported to be associated with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) via the activation of the classical complement pathway in association with bacterial infections such as coagulase negative ...
Nast, Cynthia C +3 more
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Nature Communications, 2017 Mesangial cells-mediated glomerulonephritis is a frequent cause of end-stage renal disease. Here, we show that celastrol is effective in treating both reversible and irreversible mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis in rat models, but find that its ...
Ling Guo +8 more
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Pathologic manifestations of levamisole-adulterated cocaine exposure. [PDF]
, 2015 UnlabelledRheumatic manifestations of cocaine have been well described, but more recently, a dramatic increase in the levamisole-adulterated cocaine supply in the United States has disclosed unique pathologic consequences that are distinct from pure ...
Jen, Kuang-Yu, Nolan, Amber L
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Standardized classification and reporting of glomerulonephritis
Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, 2018 A kidney biopsy is done to determine the etiology of the glomerulonephritis (GN) and the severity of the lesion, to identify whether other lesions, related to or not related to the GN, are present on the kidney biopsy and finally to ascertain the extent ...
S. Sethi, F. Fervenza
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Differences in clinicopathologic variables between Borrelia C6 antigen seroreactive and Borrelia C6 seronegative glomerulopathy in dogs. [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundRapidly progressive glomerulonephritis has been described in dogs that seroreact to Borrelia burgdorferi, but no studies have compared clinicopathologic differences in Lyme-seroreactive dogs with protein-losing nephropathy (PLN) versus dogs ...
Goldstein RE +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Retinal drusen are characteristic of macular degeneration and complement activation, but also occur in C3, lupus and IgA nephropathy. This cross-sectional observational study compared drusen counts in different forms of glomerulonephritis.
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Clinicopathological and prognostic study of IgA-dominant postinfectious glomerulonephritis
BMC Nephrology, 2021 Background The clinicopathological and prognostic features of IgA-dominant postinfectious glomerulonephritis and its difference from the primary IgA nephropathy remains to be investigated.
Ziyuan Huang +8 more
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Protease-activated receptor 1 mediates thrombin-dependent, cell-mediated renal inflammation in crescentic glomerulonephritis. [PDF]
, 2000 Protease-activated receptor (PAR)-1 is a cellular receptor for thrombin that is activated after proteolytic cleavage. The contribution of PAR-1 to inflammatory cell-mediated renal injury was assessed in murine crescentic glomerulonephritis (GN).
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Hypothyroidism and nephrotic syndrome: why, when and how to treat [PDF]
, 2017 Hypothyroidism, characterised by low/normal free thyroxine (FT4) and free tri-iodothyronine (FT3) with elevated thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), is a well-known complication of nephrotic syndrome (NS).
Barbano, Biagio +7 more
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