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Diabetic kidney disease. new clinical and therapeutic issues. Joint position statement of the Italian Diabetes Society and the Italian Society of Nephrology on "the natural history of diabetic kidney disease and treatment of hyperglycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes and impaired renal function" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Recent epidemiological studies have disclosed heterogeneity in diabetic kidney disease (DKD). In addition to the classical albuminuric phenotype, two new phenotypes have emerged, i.e., “nonalbuminuric renal impairment” and “progressive renal decline ...
Barutta, Federica   +7 more
core   +1 more source

APOL1 Nephropathy: From Genetics to Clinical Applications.

open access: yesAmerican Society of Nephrology. Clinical Journal, 2020
Rates of many types of severe kidney disease are much higher in blacks than most other groups. Much of this disparity can now be attributed to genetic variants in the apoL1 (APOL1) gene found only in individuals with recent African ancestry.
D. Friedman, M. Pollak
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preoperative proteinuria may be a risk factor for postoperative acute kidney injury:a meta-analysis

open access: yesRenal Failure, 2021
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
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

Urinary excretion of RAS, BMP, and WNT pathway components in diabetic kidney disease. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The renin-angiotensin system (RAS), bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), and WNT pathways are involved in pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease (DKD).
Afkarian, Maryam   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Hantavirus Nephropathy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2008
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
openaire   +2 more sources

Incidence, risk factors and prognosis of acute kidney injury in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a retrospective study

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) change the prognosis of many cancer patients. With the increasing use of ICIs, immune-related adverse events are occurring, including acute kidney injury (AKI).
Ming-Su Ji   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

New 'Antigens' in Membranous Nephropathy.

open access: yesJournal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2020
Membranous nephropathy (MN) occurs due to deposition of immune complexes along the subepithelial region of glomerular basement membrane. Two previously identified target antigens for the immune complexes, PLA2R (identified in 2009) and THSD7A (in 2014 ...
S. Sethi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Perinatal Nephropathies [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Health Perspectives, 1976
The purpose of this paper is to review the development of the mammalian kidney and to assess the influence that various perinatal manipulations may have on the developmental process either morphologically or functionally. Immature kidneys in general have less functional capacity than adult kidneys and a low rate of glomerular filtration, perhaps ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Upregulation of Transglutaminase andε(γ-Glutamyl)-Lysine in the Fisher-Lewis Rat Model of Chronic Allograft Nephropathy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background. Tissue transglutaminase (TG2), a cross-linking enzyme, modulates deposition of extracellular matrix protein in renal fibrosis. This study aimed to examine TG2 and its cross-link product ε(γ-glutamyl)-lysine in the Fisher-Lewis rat renal ...
Butt, Imran   +7 more
core   +6 more sources

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