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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, Surya Manivannan, Ria Dancel   +2 more
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Kidney [PDF]

American Journal of Transplantation, 2016
Kidney transplant provides significant survival, cost, and quality-of-life benefits over dialysis in patients with end-stage kidney disease, but the number of kidney transplant candidates on the waiting list continues to grow annually. By the end of 2014, nearly 100,000 adult candidates and 1500 pediatric candidates were waiting for kidney transplant ...
A, Hart, J M, Smith, M A, Skeans, S K, Gustafson, D E, Stewart, W S, Cherikh, J L, Wainright, G, Boyle, J J, Snyder, B L, Kasiske, A K, Israni   +10 more
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Correlation of the Dietary Protein Intake between Those Estimated from a Short Protein Food-Recall Questionnaire and from 24-Hour Urinary Urea-Nitrogen Excretion in Stages 3-4 Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

International Journal of Nephrology, 2023
Introduction. High protein intake may accelerate progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Estimation of dietary protein intake (DPI) is indispensable for management of CKD, but to achieve optimum DPI is quite challenging in routine clinical practice.
Teerawat Thanachayanont, Methee Chanpitakkul, Akhathai Saetie, Salyaveth Lekagul, Kriang Tungsanga   +4 more
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Editor's note

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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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, Evans, Julie, Oke, Jason, Smart, Benjamin, Hobbs, Richard, Holloway, Elizabeth, Horwood, Jeremy, Judd, Marion, Locock, Louise, McLellan, Julie, Perera, Rafael   +10 more
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Seasonal mortality trends for hospitalised patients with acute kidney injury across England

BMC Nephrology, 2023
Background Incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) is known to peak in winter months. This is likely influenced by seasonality of commonly associated acute illnesses.
Esther Wong, Javeria Peracha, David Pitcher, Anna Casula, Retha Steenkamp, James F Medcalf, Dorothea Nitsch   +6 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
Binu M, Paul, Gregory B, Vanden Heuvel
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The significance of serum levels of soluble interleukin-2 receptor in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis

Renal Failure, 2020
Background Elevated serum levels of sIL-2R are commonly observed in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (MHD). However, the clinical implications in these subjects are unclear.
Xiaohong Chen, Yang Li, Xiaoqiang Ding, Jianzhou Zou, Bo Shen, Zhonghua Liu, Wenlv Lv, Xuesen Cao, Fangfang Xiang   +8 more
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Low-dose IL-2 expands CD4+ regulatory T cells with a suppressive function in vitro via the STAT5-dependent pathway in patients with chronic kidney diseases

Renal Failure, 2018
Background: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) often have CD4+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) dysfunction and chronic inflammation. We aim to investigate the effect, function, and related mechanism of low-dose IL-2 on CD4+ regulatory T cells ...
Yuanyuan Li, Xueyong Liu, Wei Wang, Shaohua Wang, Jianchun Zhang, Song Jiang, Yang Wang, Liping Li, Jinghua Li, Youkang Zhang, Haichang Huang   +10 more
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Prescription characteristics of phosphate binders in a high pill burden for hemodialysis patients

Renal Replacement Therapy, 2021
Background Dialysis patients have to take many oral drugs, causing a high pill burden. Phosphate binders (PBs) account for a large proportion of daily pill burden; however, the relationship between patient background and prescription status of PBs is not
Nobuo Nagano, Kyoko Ito, Takashi Ono, Yuichi Ariyoshi, Soichiro Masima, Hajime Kobayashi, Tetsuo Ando, Takaaki Tsutsui, Tetsuya Ogawa   +8 more
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