Acute Kidney Disease Increases the Risk of Post-Kidney Biopsy Bleeding Complications
Introduction: Kidney biopsy, providing the insightful information for most kidney diseases, is an invasive diagnostic tool with certain risks ranging from the least severe macroscopic hematuria to the most severe life-threatening bleeding necessitating ...
Jing Xu +12 more
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Hepatitis B and C co-Infection are independent predictors of progressive kidney disease in HIV-positive, antiretroviral-treated adults [PDF]
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in HIV-positive individuals. Hepatitis C (HCV) co-infection has been associated with increased risk of CKD, but prior studies lack information on potential mechanisms.
Bickel, M +37 more
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Rationale & Objective: The number of glomeruli is often used to determine the adequacy of a kidney biopsy (eg, at least 10 glomeruli). It is often assumed that biopsy specimens with limited amounts of cortex are too imprecise for detection of focal ...
Robert S. Niznik +7 more
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Coping strategies in candidates of kidney biopsy: A qualitative content analysis study
BACKGROUND: Kidney biopsy is the gold standard in the diagnosis and management of many kidney diseases. Due to the physical and mental burden of disease diagnosis on a person’s life and the impact of adaptation strategies on the physical and mental well ...
Mohammad-Rafi Bazrafshan +6 more
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Clinicopathological Evaluation of Renal Biopsies Among Older Adults in Turkiye
Aim: Kidney disease is common in older adults due to age-related structural and functional changes in the kidneys, higher rates of chronic disease, and increased drug use.
Mürsel KARADAVUT +6 more
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Introduction: Current processing of renal biopsy samples provides limited information about immune mechanisms causing kidney injury and disease activity.
Kimberly A. Muczynski +4 more
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Kidney Biopsy Utility: Patient and Clinician Perspectives from the Kidney Precision Medicine Project
RATIONALE & OBJECTIVE: Limited data exist on patient perspectives of the implications of kidney biopsies. We explored patients\u27 perspectives alongside those of clinicians to better understand how kidney biopsies affect patients\u27 viewpoints and the ...
Tuttle, Katherine +18 more
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Utility of interval kidney biopsy in ANCA-associated vasculitis [PDF]
ObjectivesAnti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a rare autoimmune disorder that commonly involves the kidney. Early identification of kidney involvement, assessing treatment-response and predicting outcome are important
Farrah, Tariq +24 more
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Anticoagulant-Related Nephropathy in Kidney Biopsy: A Single-Center Report of 41 Cases
Rationale & Objective: In 2009, the first case of acute kidney injury and occlusive red blood cell (RBC) tubular casts associated with a high international normalized ratio in a patient receiving warfarin was identified.
Sergey V. Brodsky +6 more
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Precision Medicine in Nephrology: An Integrative Framework of Multidimensional Data in the Kidney Precision Medicine Project [PDF]
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney injury (AKI) are heterogeneous syndromes defined clinically by serial measures of kidney function. Each condition possesses strong histopathologic associations, including glomerular obsolescence or acute ...
El-Achkar, Tarek M. +4 more
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