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Carla Maria Avesani, Lilian Cuppari, Fabiana Baggio Nerbass, Bengt Lindholm, Peter Stenvinkel
High energy intake combined with low physical activity generates positive energy balance, which, when maintained, favours obesity, a highly prevalent morbidity linked to development of non-communicable chronic diseases, including chronic kidney disease (CKD). Among many factors contributing to disproportionately high energy intakes, and thereby to the obesity epidemic, the type and degree of food processing play an important role. Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) are industrialized and quite often high-energy-dense products with added sugar, salt, unhealthy fats and food additives formulated to be palatable or hyperpalatable...
November 2023: Clinical Kidney Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zhihao Li, Ashwin Rammohan, Vasanthakumar Gunasekaran, Suyoung Hong, Chih-Yi Chen, Jongman Kim, Kris Ann Hervera Marquez, Shih Chao Hsu, Onur Kirimker, Nobuhisa Akamatsu, Oren Shaked, Michele Finotti, Marcus Yeow, Lara Genedy, Philipp Dutkowski, Silvio Nadalin, Markus U Boehnert, Wojciech G Polak, Glenn K Bonney, Abhisek Mathur, Benjamin Samstein, Jean C Emond, Giuliano Testa, Kim M Olthoff, Charles B Rosen, Julie K Heimbach, Timucin Taner, Tiffany Cl Wong, Chung-Mau Lo, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Deniz Balci, Mark Cattral, Gonzalo Sapisochin, Nazia Selzner, Long Bin Jeng, Dieter Broering, Jae-Won Joh, Chao-Long Chen, Kyung Suk Suh, Mohamed Rela, Pierre-Alain Clavien
OBJECTIVE: To define benchmark values for adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT). BACKGROUND: LDLT utilizes living-donor hemiliver grafts to expand the donor pool and reduce waitlist mortality. While references have been established for donor hepatectomy, no such information exists for recipients to enable conclusive quality and comparative assessments. METHODS: Patients undergoing LDLT were analyzed in 15 high-volume centers (≥10 cases/year) from three continents over 5 years (2016-2020), with a minimum follow-up of one year...
July 21, 2023: Annals of Surgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Luis Antonio Díaz, Eduardo Fuentes-López, Gustavo Ayares, Francisco Idalsoaga, Jorge Arnold, María Ayala Valverde, Diego Perez, Jaime Gómez, Rodrigo Escarate, Alejandro Villalón, Carolina A Ramírez, Maria Hernandez-Tejero, Wei Zhang, Steve Qian, Douglas A Simonetto, Joseph C Ahn, Seth Buryska, Winston Dunn, Heer Mehta, Rohit Agrawal, Joaquín Cabezas, Inés García-Carrera, Berta Cuyàs, Maria Poca, German Soriano, Shiv K Sarin, Rakhi Maiwall, Prasun K Jalal, Saba Abdulsada, Fátima Higuera-de-la-Tijera, Anand V Kulkarni, P Nagaraja Rao, Patricia Guerra Salazar, Lubomir Skladaný, Natália Bystrianska, Ana Clemente-Sanchez, Clara Villaseca-Gómez, Tehseen Haider, Kristina R Chacko, Gustavo A Romero, Florencia D Pollarsky, Juan Carlos Restrepo, Susana Castro-Sanchez, Luis G Toro, Pamela Yaquich, Manuel Mendizabal, Maria Laura Garrido, Sebastián Marciano, Melisa Dirchwolf, Victor Vargas, César Jiménez, Alexandre Louvet, Guadalupe García-Tsao, Juan Pablo Roblero, Juan G Abraldes, Vijay H Shah, Patrick S Kamath, Marco Arrese, Ashwani K Singal, Ramon Bataller, Juan Pablo Arab
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score better predicts mortality in alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH) but could underestimate severity in women and malnourished patients. Using a global cohort, we assessed the ability of the MELD 3.0 score to predict short-term mortality in AH. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study of patients admitted to hospital with AH from 2009 to 2019. The main outcome was all-cause 30-day mortality. We compared the AUC using DeLong's method and also performed a time-dependent AUC with competing risks analysis...
August 2023: JHEP reports: innovation in hepatology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mary E Soyster, Peter J Arnold, Ramzy T Burns, Jason L Zappia, Joshua D Roth, M Francesca Monn, Richard Bihrle, Matthew J Mellon
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a subset of patients who develop strictures requiring Ileal Ureter (IU) in the setting of prior urinary diversion or augmentation (ileal conduits, neobladders, continent urinary diversions). To our knowledge, there are no prior studies on patients with IU substitution into established lower urinary tract reconstructions. METHODS: A retrospective review of patients(18 years) undergoing IU creation from 1989 to 2021 was performed. 160 patients were identified...
April 17, 2023: Urology
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Safwat A M Eldaboosy, Amgad Awad, Abdullah Farouk, Waheed Mahdy, Eman Abdelsalam, Sameh O Nour, Ahmed Kabil, Ahmad Taha, Sameh Makled, Ahmed Lotfi, Usama Nabway, Hatem Kanany
BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) poses a significant morbidity and mortality risk to critically ill COVID-19 patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence, predictors, and outcomes of AKI in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with critically ill COVID-19 pneumonia. METHODS: A multicenter retrospective study in Saudi Arabia of adult patients aged at least 18 years diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia and admitted to the intensive care unit between May 2020 and May 2021 was conducted...
January 17, 2023: Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
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Anlin Liu, Zhengtu Li, Guansheng Su, Ya Li, Yuzhuo Zhang, Jinkai Liang, Xiaoxue Cheng, Xidong Wang, Yongming Li, Feng Ye
More than 405 million people have contracted coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide, and mycotic infection may be related to COVID-19 development. There are a large number of reports showing that COVID-19 patients with mycotic infection have an increased risk of mortality. However, whether mycotic infection can be considered a risk factor for COVID-19 remains unknown. We searched the PubMed and Web of Science databases for studies published from inception to December 27, 2021. Pooled effect sizes were calculated according to a random-effects model or fixed-effect model, depending on heterogeneity...
2022: Frontiers in Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Urmila Anandh, Amna Noorin, Syed Khurram Shehzad Kazmi, Sooraj Bannur, Syed Shahkar Ahmed Shah, Mehrin Farooq, Gopikrishna Yedlapati, Waseem Amer, Bonthu Prasad, Indranil Dasgupta
BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) was common in the first two waves of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic in critically ill patients. A high percentage of these patients required renal replacement therapy and died in the hospital. METHODS: The present study examines the clinical presentation, laboratory parameters and therapeutic interventions in critically ill patients with AKI admitted to the ICU in two centres, one each in India and Pakistan. Patient and outcome details of all critically ill COVID 19 patients admitted to the ICU requiring renal replacement therapy were collected...
September 8, 2022: BMC Nephrology
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Fina Wurm, Clare McKeaveney, Michael Corr, Anna Wilson, Helen Noble
BACKGROUND: Renal transplantation is considered the gold standard treatment for end-stage kidney disease. Adolescent and young adult kidney transplant recipients have the highest rate of graft loss amongst transplanted patients. It is largely accepted this is due to psychosocial and behavioural difficulties, which impact adherence to prescribed therapies. This phenomenon is not isolated to a particular healthcare system having been observed in multiple countries across different continents...
July 29, 2022: BMC Psychology
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Kursat Gundogan, Faruk S Yucesoy, Nurhayat T Ozer, Sahin Temel, Serap Sahin, Gulsah G Sahin, Murat Sungur, Aliye Esmaoglu, Tutkun Talih, Cevat Yazici, Daniel P Griffith, Thomas R Ziegler
BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) treated with continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) may deplete micronutrient levels. Patients are also at risk for micronutrient depletion due to underlying illness(s), poor nutrient intake prior to intensive care unit (ICU) admission and/or increased requirements. We determined vitamin and trace element status before, during and after CRRT in critically ill patients. METHODS: This prospective observational study performed in mixed medical and surgical ICU patients...
April 5, 2022: JPEN. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Toby Humphrey, Mogamat Razeen Davids, Mogamat-Yazied Chothia, Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Carol Pollock, Glen James
BACKGROUND: The prevalence and incidence of hyperkalaemia, a potassium abnormality that can potentially have life-threatening consequences, are unclear. METHODS: The objective was to provide the most comprehensive overview of the epidemiology of hyperkalaemia to date within the general population, across different continents, in different healthcare settings and within pre-specified subgroups. Embase and MEDLINE were searched from database inception to 2 February 2021 using the Ovid SP platform...
April 2022: Clinical Kidney Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ahmet Furkan Kurt, Bilgul Mete, Fatouma Moustapha Houssein, Yesim Tok, Mert Ahmet Kuskucu, Ebru Yucebag, Seval Urkmez, Fehmi Tabak, Gokhan Aygun
Myroides spp. are opportunistic environmental Gram-negative bacteria. These affect mostly immunocompromised hosts and generally lead to soft tissue, and urinary tract infections. Bacteremia most commonly develop secondary to soft tissue or catheter related infections and may lead rarely to mortality. Myroides spp. are generally suscetible to fluoroquinolones, piperacillin/tazobactam, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, carbapenems or tetracyclines however, pan-resistant isolates and multiple resistance genes have been reported in clinical isolates of Myroides spp...
March 21, 2022: Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica
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REVIEW
Abdou Niang, Moustapha Faye, Ahmed Tall Ould Lemrabott, Maria Faye, Sidy Mohamed Seck, Mouhamadou Moustapha Cisse, El Hadji Fary Ka, Boucar Diouf
Nephrology was a relatively poorly known specialty in sub-Saharan Africa until the early 1980s, because of low awareness and lack of access to diagnosis and renal replacement therapies. Nephrology has seen progress on the continent despite an unfavourable economic and geopolitical environment. With a prevalence of fewer than five nephrologists per million inhabitants, the training of nephrologists, now carried out on the continent, allowed to have more than 200 specialists trained in the last decade in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa...
April 2021: Néphrologie & Thérapeutique
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kai Zhang, Mengqing Ma, Hanchao Pan, Yuyang Chen, Daorong Hou, Huiming Yin
To observe the effect of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) combined with low-flow extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) of V-V mode on anti-inflammation, improving oxygenation and reducing Pa CO2 in canines with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and hypercapnia. A total of 30 healthy adult canines were randomly divided into sham group (n = 10), ECMO (EC) group (n = 10) and CRRT + ECMO (CR + EC) group (n = 10). Sham group was only treated with invasive mechanical ventilation...
March 9, 2021: Journal of Artificial Organs: the Official Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs
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Junwen Huang, Damin Xu, Li Yang
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common and critical clinical disorder with non-negligible morbidity and mortality and remains a large public health problem. Asia, as the world's largest and most populous continent, is crucial in eliminating unsatisfactory outcomes of AKI. The diversities in climate, customs, and economic status lead to various clinical features of AKI across Asia. In this review, we focus on the epidemiologic data and clinical features of AKI in different Asian countries and clinical settings, and we show the huge medical and economic burden of AKI in Asian countries...
September 2020: Seminars in Nephrology
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Elinor Tan, Jialu Song, Adam M Deane, Mark P Plummer
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has placed unprecedented burden on the delivery of intensive care services worldwide. RESEARCH QUESTION: What is the global point estimate of deaths and risk factors for patients who are admitted to ICUs with severe COVID-19? STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: In this systematic review and meta-analysis Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane library were searched up to August 1, 2020. Pooled prevalence of participant characteristics, clinical features, and outcome data was calculated with the use of random effects models...
February 2021: Chest
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Jack Edward Heron, Corinne Isnard Bagnis, David M Gracey
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a comorbidity of major clinical significance amongst people living with HIV (PLWHIV) and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The prevalence of CKD is rising, despite the widespread use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and is increasingly related to prevalent non-infectious comorbidities (NICMs) and antiretroviral toxicity. There are great disparities evident, with the highest prevalence of CKD among PLWHIV seen in the African continent. The aetiology of kidney disease amongst PLWHIV includes HIV-related diseases, such as classic HIV-associated nephropathy or immune complex disease, CKD related to NICMs and CKD from antiretroviral toxicity...
March 16, 2020: AIDS Research and Therapy
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Dean Markić, Romano Oguić, Kristian Krpina, Antun Gršković, Ivan Vukelić, Sanjin Rački, Aldo Ivančić, Davor Primc, Josip Španjol
Kidney transplantation is the most efficient method of renal replacement therapy. When this method is performed, native urinary bladder is the preferred urinary reservoir. However, in some patients with an anatomically and functionally abnormal lower urinary tract, the urinary bladder cannot be used for transplantation. In these patients, urinary diversion should be performed before kidney transplantation. We present a case of a 32-year-old male patient with orthotopic kidney transplantation performed using a colon pouch (Mainz-pouch III)...
December 31, 2019: Croatian Medical Journal
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V Jayaprakash, M Vamsikrishna, E Indhumathi, M Jayakumar
Infections including scrub typhus contribute to a significant proportion of community-acquired acute kidney injury (AKI) in the tropics. Scrub typhus infection now requires global attention since disease outbreaks are being reported across continents. We intended to study the clinical profile, renal involvement, and parameters predicting renal involvement in scrub typhus infection. This is a retrospective study. The medical records of all patients who were admitted and treated for scrub typhus infection for a study period of two years (from September 2015 to August 2017) were analyzed, and salient clinical features and laboratory results were collected from the hospital data...
July 2019: Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
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MULTICENTER STUDY
Bairbre A McNicholas, Emanuele Rezoagli, Tài Pham, Fabiana Madotto, Elsa Guiard, Vito Fanelli, Giacomo Bellani, Matthew D Griffin, Marco Ranieri, John G Laffey
OBJECTIVES: To understand the impact of mild-moderate and severe acute kidney injury in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of the "Large Observational Study to Understand the Global Impact of Severe Acute Respiratory Failure", an international prospective cohort study of patients with severe respiratory failure. SETTING: Four-hundred fifty-nine ICUs from 50 countries across five continents. SUBJECTS: Patients with a glomerular filtration rate greater than 60 mL/min/1...
September 2019: Critical Care Medicine
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Doris V Bennett
The potential for harm to patients related to initiation and maintenance of continuous dialysis therapy by the bedside nurse led to the development of a novel method to educate nurses new to the skill of continuous renal replacement therapy. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 2019;50(2):59-60.].
February 1, 2019: Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing
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