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Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal, 2022
Opening message for Issue 18.4 on The Kidney & The ...
Miguel Quinones
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When Prevention is Truly Better than Cure: Contrast-Associated Acute Kidney Injury in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal, 2022
Contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) is a fairly frequent complication of cardiovascular angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Isaac Tea, Salima Gilani, Neal S. Kleiman   +2 more
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SGLT2 Inhibitors in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Heart Disease: A Literature Review

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal, 2022
Sodium-glucose transport protein 2 inhibitors, commonly referred to as SGLT2i, are a group of prescription pharmaceuticals that are approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use with diet and exercise to lower blood glucose in adults
Abhishek Kansara, Faiza Mubeen, Jawairia Shakil   +2 more
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Clinical outcomes in kidney transplant recipients receiving tixagevimab/cilgavimab for outpatient treatment of COVID-19: a single-center retrospective study

Frontiers in Transplantation
Kidney transplant recipients (KTR) show higher morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 than the general population and have an impaired response to vaccination.
Bilgin Osmanodja, Friederike Bachmann, Mira Choi, Wiebke Duettmann, Georgios Eleftheriadis, Fabian Halleck, Marcel G. Naik, Eva Schrezenmeier, Bianca Zukunft, Klemens Budde   +9 more
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En-Bloc Kidney Transplantation From Extremely Low-Weight (0.9–5.0 kg) Pediatric Donors: A Decade of Single-Center Experience

Transplant International
En-bloc kidney transplantation from low-weight pediatric donors (≤5 kg) is a challenging procedure performed only in limited transplant centers. We retrospectively analyzed the data from 42 en-bloc kidney transplants from donors weighing less than 5 kg ...
Xianpeng Zeng, Qiuxiang Xia, Heng Li, Miao Wang, Hanying Li, Liang He, Hua Su, Chun Zhang, Zhendi Wang   +8 more
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Cardiac Hydatid Cyst: A Rare but Potentially Life-Threatening Presentation of Hydatid Disease

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal
Cardiac echinococcosis is a rare and severe manifestation of hydatid disease. It is caused by parasitic infestation by the Echinococcus species and can lead to life-threatening complications.
Kanhai Lalani, M. Sudhakar Rao, R. Padmakumar, Pankti Parikh, M. V. Ashwini, Ujwal teja Dhulipalla   +5 more
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Sex Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women. It remains underdiagnosed, undertreated, and portends worse outcomes in women than men.
Madeline K. Mahowald, Khadeeja Esmail, Fatima M. Ezzeddine, Calvin Choi, Hanna Mieszczanska, Gladys Velarde   +5 more
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Caring for Patients with Gestational Hypertensive Disorders: Essential Takeaways

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal
Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP) are a group of conditions—including chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia with and without end-organ damage, and acute complications, which include HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes,
Paola Gomez-Aviles, Alfredo F. Gei, Pavel Martinez-Dominguez   +2 more
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Balloon-Assisted Thrombin Injection of a Profunda Femoral Pseudoaneurysm Using Radial Access

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal
The profunda femoral artery is an uncommon location for a pseudoaneurysm and is technically challenging to resolve with traditional techniques, such as ultrasound-guided compression or thrombin injection, owing to its deep anatomical location.
Medhat Chowdhury, Cameron Whilter, Phanindra Antharam, Pritham Reddy, Herman Kado, Matthew Osher   +5 more
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Exploring the Incidence and Risk Factors of Diabetic Nephropathy in Type 1 Diabetes: Insights from a Retrospective Cohort Study in Northwest China

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity
Zouxi Du,1,2,* Xiaoning Liu,3,* Leyuan Zhang,4 Hui Zhao,5,6 Limin Tian1,7 1The First School of Clinical Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Endocrinology, Gansu Provincial Hospital ...
Du Z, Liu X, Zhang L, Zhao H, Tian L
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