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Association Between Syndecan-1, Fluid Overload, and Progressive Acute Kidney Injury After Adult Cardiac Surgery

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2021
Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication after cardiac surgery and the prognosis of AKI worsens with the increase in AKI severity. Syndecan-1(SDC-1) is a biomarker of endothelial glycocalyx degradation.
Jiarui Xu   +31 more
doaj   +1 more source

Renal hemosiderosis presenting with acute kidney Injury and macroscopic hematuria in Immunoglobulin A nephropathy: a case report

open access: yesBMC Nephrology, 2021
Background Macroscopic hematuria-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) is a well-known complication of immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy. In such cases, intratubular obstruction by red blood cell (RBC) casts and acute tubular necrosis are mainly observed
Shinya Taguchi   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate change and the kidney [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The worldwide increase in temperature has resulted in a marked increase in heat waves (heat extremes) that carries a markedly increased risk for morbidity and mortality.
Butler-Dawson, Jaime   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Chronic kidney disease [PDF]

open access: yesThe Lancet, 2021
Chronic kidney disease is a progressive disease with no cure and high morbidity and mortality that occurs commonly in the general adult population, especially in people with diabetes and hypertension. Preservation of kidney function can improve outcomes and can be achieved through non-pharmacological strategies (eg, dietary and lifestyle adjustments ...
Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Chronic Kidney Disease

open access: yesDisease-a-Month, 2015
In his review article in the March 2015 edition ofCME, Prof. A M Meyers refers to chronic kidneydisease as 'an important disease group that threatenshealth'. I fully concur with this observation andwish to go a step further and assert that kidneydisease, together with other related non-communicable diseases(NCDs), poses not only a threat to health but ...
Catherine E. Langston, Adam E. Eatroff
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Pyruvate kinase M2 regulates mitochondrial homeostasis in cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury

open access: yesCell Death and Disease, 2023
An important pathophysiological process of acute kidney injury (AKI) is mitochondrial fragmentation in renal tubular epithelial cells, which leads to cell death.
Wenjia Xie   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dual mTOR/PI3K inhibition limits PI3K-dependent pathways activated upon mTOR inhibition in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

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

open access: yesRenal 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   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vanishing kidney disease [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Case Reports, 2013
A 60-year-old woman with a known case of diabetes mellitus for last 25 years, presented to our emergency department with symptoms of severe colicky pain in the right lumbar region and paraumbilical region of abdomen and recurrent episodes of vomiting the day before admission. Her family doctor recently moved her on to insulin as her blood sugar was not
Gopal Chandra, Ghosh   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Effect of a reduction in glomerular filtration rate after nephrectomy on arterial stiffness and central hemodynamics: rationale and design of the EARNEST study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: There is strong evidence of an association between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular disease. To date, however, proof that a reduction in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is a causative factor in cardiovascular disease is ...
Alam   +73 more
core   +2 more sources

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