Showing Results for
- Academic Journals (23)
Search Results
- 23
Academic Journals
- 23
- Search Terms:
- 1From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA recent study reported that combination therapy with sirolimus plus either tacrolimus or ciclosporin resulted in effective immunosuppression in high-risk renal allograft recipients. Does such combination therapy really...
- 2From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe close proximity of coronary thromboses to the coronary ostium in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) might account for the high incidence and poor prognosis of myocardial infarction (MI) in these individuals,...
- 3From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPostinfectious glomerulonephritis is an immunologic response of the kidney to infection, commonly triggered by streptococci, although many other organisms can cause the condition. In recent decades, the prevalence of...
- 4From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAltitude is inversely associated with all-cause mortality among patients on dialysis in the US, according to researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Previous research had shown that...
- 5From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThree new biomarkers could help pinpoint patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are at high risk of progression to end-stage renal disease. Circulating levels of A-type natriuretic propeptide, proadrenomedullin...
- 6From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground. A 60-year-old man with a history of diabetes and hypertension was referred to a nephrology clinic for investigation of his elevated serum creatinine level. Investigations. Physical examination; laboratory...
- 7From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAntineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitides are usually treated with a combination of high-dose corticosteroids and cyclophosphamide therapy to induce remission, commonly followed by maintenance...
- 8From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA novel approach to the treatment of Secondary hyperparathyroidism has shown promise in in vitro and in vivo studies conducted by investigators at Tokai University in Japan. "We expect that RNA interference could reduce...
- 9From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe addition of a novel induction assay for interleukin 1[beta] to a classic method for determining the purity of dialysis water (the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate test) could improve detection of microbial contaminants. GI...
- 10From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedHow can we improve the diagnostic value of donor kidney graft biopsies and the management of renal transplant recipients? A recent study developed a morphologic scoring system--the Maryland Aggregate Pathology Index--to...
- 11From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA genotype match thought to be associated with favorable outcomes after deceased-donor kidney transplantation offers no advantage over other genotype pairings, Mira Varagunam and colleagues report. The complement C3...
- 12From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedLithium is widely used to treat bipolar disorder. Nephrogenic diabetes insipid us (NDI) is the most common adverse effect of lithium and occurs in up to 40% of patients. Renal lithium toxicity is characterized by...
- 13From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedShockwaves reverberated worldwide last September when it became apparent that Chinese milk supplies had been deliberately spiked with the toxic industrial chemical melamine to increase their apparent protein content....
- 14From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedCharacteristics of centers where patients are registered on the waiting list for a deceased-donor kidney transplant in the US can account for as much as a 4-year difference in life expectancy, Jesse Schold and...
- 15From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedRemoval of a failed renal allograft does not influence survival of subsequent grafts, researchers in the UK have found. The presence of a failed kidney graft is thought to promote sensitization and induce chronic...
- 16From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedChronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with accelerated progression of cardiovascular disease, perhaps because patients with CKD have a high burden of traditional cardiovascular risk factors in addition to a range...
- 17From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedDetermining the presence of microalbuminuria in a first morning void is more reliable than analysis of spot urine samples. A team from The Netherlands demonstrated that the prevalence of microalbuminuria estimated using...
- 18From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedSmall-vessel vasculitic syndromes such as Wegener granulomatosis and microscopic polyangiitis, which are associated with circulating antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies, are an important cause of renal failure....
- 19From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTrials that compared sodium bicarbonate and sodium chloride for the prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury have yielded highly conflicting results. The authors of a recent meta-analysis endeavored to provide...
- 20From: Nature Reviews Nephrology. (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedRates of living-donor kidney transplantation have increased steadily in many countries over the past 10 years, according to researchers in Canada. An estimated 27,000 living-donor kidney transplantations are now...