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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 +4 more
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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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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 +10 more
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Impact of primary kidney disease on the effects of empagliflozin in patients with chronic kidney disease: secondary analyses of the EMPA-KIDNEY trial. [PDF]
, 2023 BACKGROUND: The EMPA-KIDNEY trial showed that empagliflozin reduced the risk of the primary composite outcome of kidney disease progression or cardiovascular death in patients with chronic kidney disease mainly through slowing progression.
EMPA-KIDNEY Collaborative Group
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Emerging key roles for P2X receptors in the kidney [PDF]
, 2013 P2X ionotropic non-selective cation channels are expressed throughout the kidney and are activated in a paracrine or autocrine manner following the binding of extracellular ATP and related extracellular nucleotides.
Peppiatt-Wildman, Claire M. +10 more
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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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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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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 +6 more
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Paired and altruistic kidney donation in the UK: algorithms and experimentation [PDF]
, 2012 We study the computational problem of identifying optimal sets of kidney exchanges in the UK. We show how to expand an integer programming-based formulation [1, 19] in order to model the criteria that constitute the UK definition of optimality.
David F. Manlove +3 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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