Renal AA-amyloidosis in intravenous drug users - a role for HIV-infection? [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Chronic renal disease is a serious complication of long-term intravenous drug use (IVDU). Recent reports have postulated a changing pattern of underlying nephropathy over the last decades.
Amann, Kerstin Ute +7 more
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A rare case of renal thrombotic microangiopathy associated with Castleman’s disease [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: Castleman’s disease (CD) is an uncommon, heterogeneous lympho-proliferative disorder leading to high circulating levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).
Chen, Ying Maggie +3 more
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SAGE Open Medicine, 2019 Introduction: Renal biopsy is a useful diagnostic procedure. In developing countries, two techniques of renal biopsy, blind percutaneous renal biopsy and real-time ultrasound-guided percutaneous renal biopsy, have been performed.
Wanjak Pongsittisak +7 more
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Initial Experience of Renal Biopsy at a New Nephrology Center in Eastern Nepal
Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, 2021 We report the initial experience of renal biopsy at a new nephrology center in eastern Nepal. A prospective analysis of patients who underwent renal biopsy from January 2016 to December 2018 at the department of nephrology, Nobel Medical College Teaching
Shailendra Shrestha, Tejendra Karki
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Risk factors for bleeding complications after nephrologist-performed native renal biopsy [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Bleeding is a recognized complication of native percutaneous renal biopsy. This study aimed to describe the incidence of major bleeding after biopsy in a single centre over a 15-year period and examine factors associated with major ...
Fox, Jonathan G. +5 more
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Biomarkers in solid organ transplantation: establishing personalized transplantation medicine. [PDF]
, 2011 Technological advances in molecular and in silico research have enabled significant progress towards personalized transplantation medicine. It is now possible to conduct comprehensive biomarker development studies of transplant organ pathologies ...
Khatri, Purvesh +3 more
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A Case of Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Associated with Rotavirus Infection in an Elderly Asian Male and Review of the Literature. [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP), a small vessel vasculitis mediated by deposition of immune-complexes containing IgA in the skin, gut, and glomeruli, often presents with abdominal pain, purpuric rash in the lower extremities and buttocks, joint
Adderley +13 more
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Tacrolimus rescue therapy for renal allograft rejection - Five-year experience [PDF]
, 1997 Over the 5 year period from 7/14/1989 until 5/24/1994, we have attempted graft salvage with tacrolimus conversion in a total of 169 patients (median age 33 years, range 2-75 years) with ongoing rejection on baseline CsA immunosuppression after failure of
Demetris, AJ +12 more
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Future of the Renal Biopsy: Time to Change the Conventional Modality Using Nanotechnology
International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, 2017 At the present time, imaging guided renal biopsy is used to provide diagnoses in most types of primary and secondary renal diseases. It has been claimed that renal biopsy can provide a link between diagnosis of renal disease and its pathological ...
Hamid Tayebi Khosroshahi +4 more
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Renal papillary carcinoma developed in a kidney transplant recipient with late IgA-nephropathy [PDF]
, 2016 With improvements in immunosuppressive therapy, patient and graft survival in renal transplant recipients have been prolonged. Increasing donor age and patient survival rates have been related to an increase in the number of de novo tumors ...
BERLOCO, Pasquale Bartolomeo +7 more
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