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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World Health Organization (WHO)/International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) grading in fine‐needle aspiration biopsies of renal masses [PDF]
Background Utilization of fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy for the evaluation of renal masses has been increasing at our institution. At times diagnostic material on direct smears is superior to that in the cell block/core biopsy, therefore assigning
Al Nazer +20 more
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A discrete cluster of urinary biomarkers discriminates between active systemic lupus erythematosus patients with and without glomerulonephritis. [PDF]
BackgroundManagement of lupus nephritis (LN) would be greatly aided by the discovery of biomarkers that accurately reflect changes in disease activity.
Avila-Casado, Carmen +10 more
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Initial Experience of Renal Biopsy at a New Nephrology Center in Eastern Nepal
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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Pauci-immune glomerulonephritis in individuals with disease associated with levamisole-adulterated cocaine: a series of 4 cases. [PDF]
Exposure to levamisole-adulterated cocaine can induce a distinct clinical syndrome characterized by retiform purpura and/or agranulocytosis accompanied by an unusual constellation of serologic abnormalities including antiphospholipid antibodies, lupus ...
Butcher, Brad +6 more
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Renal papillary carcinoma developed in a kidney transplant recipient with late IgA-nephropathy [PDF]
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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Future of the Renal Biopsy: Time to Change the Conventional Modality Using Nanotechnology
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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Risk factors for bleeding complications after nephrologist-performed native renal biopsy [PDF]
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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Differences in clinicopathologic variables between Borrelia C6 antigen seroreactive and Borrelia C6 seronegative glomerulopathy in dogs. [PDF]
BackgroundRapidly progressive glomerulonephritis has been described in dogs that seroreact to Borrelia burgdorferi, but no studies have compared clinicopathologic differences in Lyme-seroreactive dogs with protein-losing nephropathy (PLN) versus dogs ...
Goldstein RE +6 more
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A Rare and Serious Complication of Percutaneous Renal Biopsy: Retroperitoneal Hemorrhage
Renal biopsy is the gold standard diagnostic method in adults with the renal parenchymal disease. Retroperitoneal hemorrhage is one of the rare and most severe complications of percutaneous renal biopsy.
Tamer Selen +3 more
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