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Purpose. Chronic malnutrition and cachexia are common in chronic kidney disease (CKD), and importance should be given to these complications because they affect the patient’s quality of life and prognosis.
Lilin Liu+6 more
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Prescription characteristics of phosphate binders in a high pill burden for hemodialysis patients
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+8 more
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Background Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (S. maltophilia) is being increasingly recognized as an important cause of nosocomial infections, particularly in immunocompromised patients, such as patients undergoing dialysis. S.
Hisato Shima+8 more
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Background Crescentic immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy, defined as > 50% of the glomeruli with crescents, often has a poor renal prognosis. Because of the high prevalence of pre-eclampsia in the second trimester of pregnancy, we often fail to ...
Hisato Shima+8 more
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Background Minimal change disease is a common cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults. Higher relapse rate put patients at risk of steroids toxicity due to long-term exposure.
Diankun Liu+8 more
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Background and Aim. Strong evidence exists supporting the utility of sodium glucose cotransporter inhibitors (SGLT2is) for treating not only cardiovascular events but also renal events.
Kazuo Kobayashi+6 more
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Effect of a Hemodialysis Session on Markers of Inflammation and Endotoxin
Background. People receiving hemodialysis (HD) treatment have higher cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, ascribed to an increased prevalence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors.
Shyam Dheda+4 more
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Background Peritonitis is a serious and potentially fatal complication of peritoneal dialysis. We report a case of fatal peritonitis caused by Mycobacterium mageritense that was detected for the first time in peritonitis. Case presentation A male patient
Nobuhiro Hashimoto+10 more
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Phenotype standardization for drug-induced kidney disease. [PDF]
Drug-induced kidney disease is a frequent cause of renal dysfunction; however, there are no standards to identify and characterize the spectrum of these disorders.
Awdishu, Linda+8 more
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Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a fatal complication of diabetes and the main cause of end-stage renal disease. Due to the suboptimal effects of current treatments, there is an urgent need to develop new therapeutic strategies for DN. Trametenolic acid (TA),
Qi Duan+7 more
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