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Special Pharmacological Aspects of Kidney Diseases

, 2022
The bean-shaped kidney has diverse important functions vital for life, which requires important treatments that may save this organ of any injuries. Amongst the kidney cancers, renal cell carcinoma is the most common, associated with VHL (Von Hippel ...
Hafez, Emran
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Prevalence of Drug-Related Transaminitis in Post-Renal Transplant Recipients: A Single-Center Study in Peshawar

Journal of Gandhara Medical and Dental Sciences
OBJECTIVES This study aimed to estimate the prevalence, timing, pattern, and predictors of drug-related transaminitis among kidney-transplant recipients at a tertiary center in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Farman ullah , Irfan Mirza, Muhammad Izhar, Muhammad Younas Khan   +3 more
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Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Pediatric Kidney Disease: 23-year Experience at the Severance Children's Hospital in Korea [PDF]

, 2017
Purpose: The American Society for Apheresis provides clinical guidelines for therapeutic apheresis in adults, but there are no guidelines for children. This study aimed to analyze the effect of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) in pediatric patients with
이금화, 신재일, 김지홍
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Forgotten double-J ureteral stents: clinical burden, complications, and predictors of encrustation in a Tertiary Care Center

African Journal of Urology
Background Forgotten double-J (DJ) ureteral stents represent a preventable complication with significant morbidity. Limited data exist on patient-level determinants and systematic risk factors in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Mohammad Asad Shamsher, Sajjad Muhammad Khan Shinwari, Isar Ahmad, Muhammad Afnan, Musaddif Riaz, Ikram Khan, Uzair Rahim, Zahid Ullah Khan, Hizb ullah, Niamat Ullah   +9 more
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Vanishing kidney disease [PDF]

BMJ 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, Brijesh, Sharma, Ulka, Kamble, B M S, Lamba   +3 more
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Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook, Veerain Gupta, Nicholas J. Clark, Vijay Rings, Lauren E. Corona, Douglass B. Clayton, Daniel J. Benedetti   +6 more
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Clinical features of acute kidney injury in patients with nephrotic syndrome and minimal change disease: a retrospective, cross-sectional study

Chinese Medical Journal, 2021
. Background:. Minimal change nephropathy (MCD) is a common pathological type of nephrotic syndrome and is often associated with acute kidney injury (AKI).
Shu-Peng Lin, Feng-Ge Zhu, Jin-Ling Meng, Xiao-Wei Sun, Jing Cui, Shuang Liang, Zhong Yin, Xue-Feng Sun, Guang-Yan Cai, Pei-Fang Wei   +9 more
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Efficacy and Safety Analysis of Roxarestat in Regulating Renal Anemia in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of roxarestat versus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in the management of renal anemia in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Methods This was a prospective, open‐label, randomized controlled trial.
Lingling Chen, Junjie Zhu, Qiaonan Ge
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Chronic kidney disease: regional variation in Australia [PDF]

, 2013
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common and serious problem in Australia and its management can be resource intensive. Those with CKD\u27s most severe form, end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), usually require kidney replacement therapy (KRT) to ...

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Dietary Protein Intake and Peritoneal Protein Losses in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients lose protein in their waste dialysate, potentially increasing their risk for malnutrition. We wished to determine whether there was any association between losses and dietary protein intake (DPI). Methods DPI was assessed from 24‐h dietary recall using Nutrics software.
Haalah Shaaker, Andrew Davenport
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