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Deletion of TLR4 reduces apoptosis and improves histology in a murine kidney transplant model

Scientific Reports, 2021
Acute kidney injury (AKI) after transplantation of human deceased donor kidneys is associated with upregulation of tubular toll like receptor 4 (TLR4), but whether TLR4 is required for AKI is unknown.
Swati Jain, Robert Plenter, Trevor Nydam, Ronald G. Gill, Alkesh Jani   +4 more
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Renal impairment in a rural African antiretroviral programme [PDF]

, 2009
Background: There is little knowledge regarding the prevalence and nature of renal impairment in African populations initiating antiretroviral treatment, nor evidence to inform the most cost effective methods of screening for renal impairment.
Till Barnighausen, Cooke, GS, Barnighausen, Till, Cara Franey, Lessells, RJ, Newell, Marie-Louise, Knott, Deborah, Franey, C, Dedicoat Martin, Dedicoat, Martin, Newell Marie-Louise, Adam, A, Deborah Knott, Martin Dedicoat, Knott, D, Adam, Ahmed, Ahmed Adam, Newell, M-L, Franey, Cara, Lessells Richard J, Adam Ahmed, Richard J Lessells, Cooke Graham S, Marie-Louise Newell, Cooke, Graham S, Barnighausen Till, Lessells, Richard J, Dedicoat, M, Graham S Cooke, Knott Deborah, Barnighausen, T, Franey Cara   +31 more
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The cuffless SOMNOtouch NIBP device shows poor agreement with a validated oscillometric device during 24‐h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2021
Repeated cuff‐based blood pressure (BP) measurements may cause discomfort resulting in stress and erroneous recording values. SOMNOtouch NIBP is an alternative cuff‐less BP measurement device that calculates changes in BP based on changes in pulse ...
Jakob Nyvad, Kent L. Christensen, Niels Henrik Buus, Mark Reinhard   +3 more
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Ornipressin in the treatment of functional renal failure in decompensated liver cirrhosis [PDF]

, 1991
In 11 patients with decompensated cirrhosis and deteriorating renal function, the effect of the vasoconstrictor substance 8-ornithin vasopressin (ornipressin; POR 8; Sandoz, Basel, Switzerland) on renal function, hemodynamic parameters, and humoral ...
Reither, H., Druml, W., Schneeweiss, B., Lenz, K., Hörtnagl, H., Schmid, R., Grimm, G., Laggner, A., Gerbes, Alexander L.   +8 more
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Rehydration with fructose worsens dehydration-induced renal damage

BMC Nephrology, 2018
Background Increasing evidence suggests heat stress induced chronic kidney disease (CKD) may be mediated by endogenous fructose generation and may be exacerbated by rehydration by fructose-containing solutions.
Tamara Milagres, Fernando E. García-Arroyo, Miguel A. Lanaspa, Gabriela Garcia, Takuji Ishimoto, Ana Andres-Hernando, Masanari Kuwabara, Thomas Jensen, Yuka Sato, Jason Glaser, Laura G. Sánchez-Lozada, Richard J. Johnson, Carlos Roncal-Jimenez   +12 more
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Hypertension in mice lacking 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 [PDF]

, 1999
Deficiency of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11beta-HSD2) in humans leads to the syndrome of apparent mineralocorticoid excess (SAME), in which cortisol illicitly occupies mineralocorticoid receptors, causing sodium retention, hypokalemia ...
Mullins, A J, Edwards, Christopher R. W., Seckl, Jonathan R., Jonathan R. Seckl, Christopher R.W. Edwards, Stewart Fleming, Kotelevtsev, Yuri, John J. Mullins, Kotelevtsev, Y, Kenyon, C, Seckl, J R, Mullins, John J., Edwards, C R W, Fleming, S, Christopher Kenyon, Kenyon, Christopher, Brown, R W, Yuri Kotelevtsev, Roger W. Brown   +18 more
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Postbiopsy arteriovenous fistula in renal allograft: An ultrasound case study

Clinical Case Reports, 2019
Key Clinical Message Arteriovenous fistula is a well‐known but rarely diagnosed complication of percutaneous renal biopsy. On Doppler sonography, these fistulae are characterized by a region of high velocity shifts and random color assignment due to ...
Harini Bejjanki, Alfonso H. Santos, Abhilash Koratala   +2 more
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Prevention And Treatment of Hypertension With Algorithm-based therapy (PATHWAY) number 2:protocol for a randomised crossover trial to determine optimal treatment for drug-resistant hypertension [PDF]

, 2015
INTRODUCTION: Resistant hypertension is inadequately controlled blood pressure (BP) despite treatment with at least three BP-lowering drugs. A popular hypothesis is that resistant hypertension is due to excessive Na(+)-retention, and that 'further ...
Williams, B, Caulfield, M, MacDonald, TM, Cruickshank, JK, MacDonald, Thomas M, Ford, I, Morant, S, Sever, Peter, Webb, David J, Caulfield, Mark, Brown, MJ, McInnes, G, Salsbury, J, Cruickshank, J Kennedy, Williams, Bryan, MacDonald, Thomas M., McInnes, Gordon, Salsbury, Jackie, Morant, Steve, Ford, Ian, Webb, DJ, Brown, Morris J., Cruickshank, J. Kennedy, Webb, David J., Brown, Morris, Sever, P   +25 more
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Lithium treatment reduces the renal kallikrein excretion rate [PDF]

, 1990
Lithium treatment reduces the renal kallikrein excretion rate. Lithium salts are widely used agents for the prophylactic treatment of affective disorders. Lithium salts may be associated with distal nephron dysfunction.
Marin-Grez, Marcos, Sauer, Heinrich, Gross, Peter, Reinhard, Caroline, Fink, Edwin   +4 more
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Not all that is red is blood: a curious case of chromaturia

Clinical Case Reports, 2018
Key Clinical Message Hydroxocobalamin causes reddish discoloration of the urine, mimicking hematuria. Clinicians should be aware of this common side effect of the rarely used drug to prevent unnecessary consultations and work‐up. Additional benign causes
Abhilash Koratala, Gajapathiraju Chamarthi, Mark S. Segal   +2 more
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