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ABSTRACT Membranous nephropathy is a glomerulopathy, which main affected target is the podocyte, and has consequences on the glomerular basement membrane. It is more common in adults, especially over 50 years of age. The clinical presentation is nephrotic syndrome, but many cases can evolve with asymptomatic non-nephrotic proteinuria.
Márcio Dantas +5 more
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Association between thyroid hormones and diabetic kidney disease in Chinese adults
Objective We aimed to explore the association between thyroid hormones and different stages of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in Chinese adults. Methods This is a retrospective study involving 2,832 participants. DKD was diagnosed and classified according
Meng-chao Liu +8 more
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Normal-weight central obesity: implications for diabetes mellitus
BackgroundCurrent guidelines for obesity prevention and control focus on body mass index (BMI) and rarely address central obesity. Few studies have been conducted on the association between normal-weight central obesity and the risk of diabetes mellitus (
Xueshan Jin +9 more
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Sepsis is a heterogeneous syndrome induced by infection and results in high mortality. Even though more than 100 biomarkers for sepsis prognosis were evaluated, prediction of patient outcomes in sepsis continues to be driven by clinical signs because of ...
Tingting Zhu +30 more
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Background Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have a therapeutic effect on diabetic nephropathy (DN) but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. This study was conducted to investigate whether human umbilical cord-MSCs (hUCMSCs) can induce oxidative damage ...
Ping Nie +8 more
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Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common glomerulonephritis in the world. The etiology is unknown but a dysregulated T-cell immune response to viral, bacterial, and food antigens activating mucosal plasma cells to produce polymeric IgA has been proposed. No serological test exists to diagnosis IgAN.
Jonathan J, Taliercio, Ali, Mehdi
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Rituximab in patients with membranous nephropathy and kidney insufficiency
Introduction: Patients with membranous nephropathy and kidney insufficiency have an extremely high risk of progression to end-stage renal disease. Whether rituximab can effectively treat membranous nephropathy patients with renal dysfunction remains ...
Yanhong Guo +8 more
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Pathogenic rodent-borne hantaviruses cause in humans generalized infections that involve the peripheral vascular bed and severely affect their permeability. We describe a 30-yr-old male patient with clinical symptoms characterizing five conventional phases of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome after an uncommonly severe hantavirus infection with the
Dusan, Ferluga, Alenka, Vizjak
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Identification of Genes Reveals the Mechanism of Cell Ferroptosis in Diabetic Nephropathy
Aims/Introduction: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the main complications of diabetes. Genomics may reveal the essential pathogenesis of DN. We analyzed datasets to search for key genes to explore pathological mechanisms of DN.Materials and Methods ...
Xian Wang +11 more
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Preoperative proteinuria may be a risk factor for postoperative acute kidney injury:a meta-analysis
Objective To investigate the relationship between preoperative proteinuria and postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI). Methods We performed a search on databases included PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and Web of Science, from December 2009 to ...
Dan-Dan Huang +3 more
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