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Kidney age, not kidney disease [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018 KEY POINTS Although a variety of conditions and syndromes may affect the kidneys over either chronic or acute time frames, the term “chronic kidney disease” (CKD) is used to describe a decrease in the filtration ability of the glomerular capillaries in the kidney.
Stevens, Richard J +10 more
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Kidney: polycystic kidney disease [PDF]
WIREs Developmental Biology, 2014 Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a life‐threatening genetic disorder characterized by the presence of fluid‐filled cysts primarily in the kidneys. PKD can be inherited as autosomal recessive (ARPKD) or autosomal dominant (ADPKD) traits. Mutations in either the PKD1 or PKD2 genes, which encode polycystin 1 and polycystin 2, are the underlying cause of
Gregory B. Vanden Heuvel +2 more
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Troponins, Acute Coronary Syndrome and Renal Disease: From Acute Kidney Injury Through End-stage Kidney Disease [PDF]
, 2019 The diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is heavily dependent on cardiac biomarker assays, particularly cardiac troponins. ACS, particularly non-ST segment elevation MI, are more common in patients with acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease (
Banerjee, A, Banerjee, D, Ferrett, C
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Journal of Kidney Cancer and VHL, 2014 Dear fellow researchers,Welcome to the first issue of the Journal of Kidney Cancer and VHL (JKCVHL).JKCVHL is an open access journal created to fill the vacuum for a specialized journal to disseminate information on the advances in kidney cancer and VHL ...
Journal of Kidney Cancer and VHL
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Massive Lymphocele Associated with Allograft Hydronephrosis: An Ultrasound Case Study
POCUS Journal, 2022 Lymphocele is a lymphocyte-rich fluid collection that results from disruption of lymphatics in the recipient during renal transplantation. While small collections resolve spontaneously, larger, symptomatic ones may cause obstructive nephropathy ...
Harini Bejjanki +2 more
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Integrative Volume Status Assessment
POCUS Journal, 2022 Volume status assessment is a critical but challenging clinical skill and is especially important for the management of patients in the emergency department, intensive care unit, and dialysis unit where accurate intravascular assessment is necessary to ...
David Kearney +2 more
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A new outlook towards kidney injuries [PDF]
, 2012 Acute and chronic progression of injury to the kidney leads to the failure of the renal system and has become an increasingly important cause of morbidity and mortality.
Abhijeet Satwekar, Mahesh Satwekar
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Bedside Assessment of the Kidneys and Bladder Using Point of Care Ultrasound
POCUS Journal, 2022 Given the contrasting echogenic characteristics of the urinary system and their easily identifiable distortion in response to numerous pathologic processes, the sonographic examination of the kidney and bladder can provide a wealth of clinical ...
Patrick J. Taus +2 more
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Diabetic microangiopathy in Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients after successful pancreatic and kidney or solitary kidney transplantation [PDF]
, 1991 To evaluate the beneficial effect of pancreatic grafting on peripheral microcirculation and long-term clinical outcome, we compared data of 28 Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients either given a pancreatic and kidney graft simultaneously or given
Abendroth, D. +4 more
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Dual mTOR/PI3K inhibition limits PI3K-dependent pathways activated upon mTOR inhibition in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease [PDF]
, 2018 Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is characterized by the development of kidney cysts leading to kidney failure in adulthood. Inhibition of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) slows polycystic kidney disease (PKD) progression in ...
Arcaro, Alexandre +10 more
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