Chronic kydney disease

A 76-year-old male with severe comorbidities and multiple cardiovascular risk factors including stage IV chronic kidney disease presents with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction. An ultra-low contrast invasive coronary angiography using the DyeVert system and iso-osmolar contrast agent revealed a multivessel disease with heavy calcifications involving the left main stem and its bifurcation requiring a complex percutaneous coronary intervention. Because of the high risk of contrast-induced acute kidney injury, a zero-contrast intervention was performed using intravascular ultrasound guidance and dedicated stenting techniques with optimal imaging, clinical, and renal outcomes...

Plasma creatinine is a marker of interest in renal transplantation but data on its kinetics in the first days following transplantation are scarce. The aim of this study was to identify clinically relevant subgroups of creatinine trajectories following renal transplantation and to test their association with graft outcome. Among 496 patients with a first kidney transplant included in the French ASTRE cohort at the Poitiers University hospital, 435 patients from donation after brain death were considered in a latent class modeling...

The immediate positive result of 3-4 weeks' course of treatment with curantyl (C) of patients with chronic glomerulonephritis (ChGN) is due to both vasoactive and antiaggregant action of the preparation. The negative immediate result of C treatment appear to be associated with <<steal syndrome>>. C was found to be usefull in treatment of ChGN patients presenting with predominance of fibroplastic changes in the kydneys, those with arterial hypertension, grade I ChGN. Analysis of late results of treatment 1...