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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sebastián Gómez-Galán, Alejandro Velandia-Sánchez, Julián M Corso-Ramírez, Camilo A Polanía-Sandoval, Paula C Florez-Amaya, Sergio A Ortigoza-Espitia, Sofía N Suarez-Vásquez, Lina M Sanabria-Arévalo, Juan G Barrera-Carvajal, Jaime Camacho-Mackenzie
OBJECTIVES: Coronary artery disease (CAD) and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) are common arterial pathologies that might occur simultaneously; however, there is not enough evidence about the optimal strategy for patients with concomitant indications of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and open repair of the AAA (AAOR). This study aims to present the outcomes in low and moderate cardiac surgical risk patients who underwent one-stage or two-stage elective CABG and AAOR in a middle-income country...
April 17, 2024: Vascular
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Muhammad Shaheen, Anchit Bharat, Allon N Friedman, Shunhua Guo
Leukocyte chemotactic factor-2 amyloidosis (ALECT2) is a recently described subtype of amyloidosis. IgG4-related disease is a rare fibroinflammatory condition characterized by dense interstitial lymphoplasmacytic infiltrates and fibrosis. Membranous nephropathy and diabetic nephropathy are common causes of nephrotic syndrome. Here we report a 49-year-old Hispanic male patient with diabetes mellitus who presented with jaundice and pruritus. IgG4-related autoimmune pancreatitis was diagnosed through laboratory workup and ampulla biopsy...
April 17, 2024: Journal of Nephrology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Morikuni Nishihira, Yutaka Matsuoka, Mayuko Hori, Makoto Tsujita, Kaoru Yasuda, Satoshi Ashimine, Kohei Ishiyama, Kazuharu Uchida, Kunio Morozumi, Takaaki Kobayashi
BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis and osteopenia are more frequent in patients who have received kidney transplants than in healthy individuals. Although osteoporosis and sarcopenia are closely related, only few studies have considered them in the post-transplantation period. We aimed to investigate the relationship between lower bone mineral density and skeletal muscle in kidney transplant recipients. METHODS: We included 371 patients in the maintenance phase of kidney transplantation (> 6 months after transplantation) followed-up at our institution from January to December 2019...
April 17, 2024: Journal of Nephrology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Thaysa Sobral Antonelli, Milena Dos Santos Mantovani, Nyara Coelho de Carvalho, Thomáz Eduardo Archangelo, Marcos Ferreira Minicucci, Sebastião Pires Ferreira Filho, Ricardo de Souza Cavalcante, Luis Gustavo Modelli de Andrade, Nara Aline Costa, Paulo Roberto Kawano, Gabriel Berg de Almeida, Silvia Justina Papini, Ricardo Augusto Monteiro de Barros Almeida
BACKGROUND: The association between obesity and infectious diseases is increasingly reported in the literature. There are scarce studies on the association between obesity and urinary tract infection after kidney transplantation (KTx). These studies defined obesity based on body mass index, and their results were conflicting. The present study aimed to evaluate this association using bioelectrical impedance analysis for body composition evaluation, and obesity definition. METHODS: A single-center cohort study was conducted...
April 17, 2024: Journal of Nephrology
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Shaarav Ghose, Matthew Satariano, Saichidroopi Korada, Thomas Cahill, Raghav Shah, Rupesh Raina
Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a leading cause of chronic kidney disease and affects approximately 40% of diabetic individuals. Cases of DKD continue to rise globally as the prevalence of diabetes mellitus increases, with an estimated 415 million people living with diabetes in 2015 and a projected 642 million by 2040. DKD is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, representing 34% and 36% of all chronic kidney disease deaths in men and women, respectively. Common co-morbidities including hypertension and ageing-related nephron loss further complicate disease diagnosis and progression...
April 17, 2024: American Journal of Physiology. Endocrinology and Metabolism
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lourdes Graciela Baeza-Pérez, Sandra Edith Cabrera-Becerra, Rodrigo Romero-Nava, Erika Ramos-Tovar, Maria Elena Hernández-Campos, Pedro López-Sánchez
OBJECTIVES: Preeclampsia (PE) is a complication of pregnancy that might increase progeny risk of cardiovascular and metabolic problems, mainly in males. Renin angiotensin aldosterone system is known to be involved. (Pro) renin/renin receptor ((P)RR) has been shown to participate in cardiovascular pathology. The aim of this work was to evaluate (P)RR expression and function upon cardiovascular and renal tissues from PE dams' offspring. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We used offspring from normal pregnant and preeclamptic rats, evaluating body, heart, aorta and kidney weight, length, and blood pressure along 3 months after birth...
2024: Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences
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Esimebia Adjovi Amegashie, Prince Asamoah, Lawrencia Emefa Ami Ativi, Mildred Adusei-Poku, Evelyn Yayra Bonney, Emmanuel Ayitey Tagoe, Elijah Paintsil, Kwasi Torpey, Osbourne Quaye
People living with HIV (PLWH) usually suffer from co-infections and co-morbidities including respiratory tract infections. SARS-CoV-2 has been reported to cause respiratory infections. There are uncertainties in the disease severity and immunological response among PLWH who are co-infected with COVID-19. This review outlines the current knowledge on the clinical outcomes and immunological response to SARS-CoV-2 among PLWH. Literature was searched in Google scholar, Scopus, PubMed, and Science Direct conforming with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines from studies published from January 2020 to June 2023...
2024: Experimental Biology and Medicine
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Talita Helena Martins Sarti, Marcos Devanir Silva da Costa, Daniel Paz Araujo, Rodrigo Akira Watanabe, Samuel Tau Zymberg, Ítalo Capraro Suriano, Sergio Cavalheiro, Feres Chaddad-Neto
BACKGROUND: Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is a complex condition with both mechanical and chemical effects, resulting in mortality rates of 50-80%. Recent reports advocate for neuroendoscopic treatment, particularly endoscopic brainwashing (EBW), but long-term functional outcomes remain insufficiently explored. This study aims to outline the step-by-step procedure of EBW as applied in our institution, providing results and comparing them with those of external ventricular drainage (EVD) alone...
2024: Surgical Neurology International
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Jonathan Knott, Michael Engheta, Jeffery Michel, Timothy Mixon, R Jay Widmer
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to identify patient characteristics associated with acute kidney injury (AKI) post-coronary angiography with or without percutaneous coronary intervention. METHODS: This retrospective, single-center study analyzed 350 patients from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018. The primary endpoint was AKI, defined as a rise in creatinine >0.3 mg/dL within 48 hours of coronary angiography. RESULTS: AKI occurred in 41 of 350 patients (8...
2024: Proceedings of the Baylor University Medical Center
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Robin Lengton, Friedo W Dekker, Elisabeth F C van Rossum, Johan W de Fijter, Frits R Rosendaal, Ko Willems van Dijk, Ton J Rabelink, Saskia Le Cessie, Renée de Mutsert, Ellen K Hoogeveen
PURPOSE: Obesity may promote kidney damage through hemodynamic and hormonal effects. We investigated the association between body mass index (BMI), total body fat (TBF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) and whether hypertension, diabetes, leptin and adiponectin mediated these associations. METHODS: In this cross-sectional analysis of the Netherlands Epidemiology of Obesity study, 6671 participants (45-65 y) were included. We defined CKD as eGFR <60 ml/min/1...
April 16, 2024: Endocrine
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Marc Gurun, Paul Brennan, Sava Handjiev, Aseil Khatib, Damien Leith, John F Dillon, Christopher J Byrne
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) increases the risk of incident chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, the relative risk of CKD associated with increasing hepatic fibrosis, and consequent mortality risk, remains underexplored in real-world cohorts. In this study, we sought to establish whether hepatic fibrosis is associated with increased CKD risk and explore differences in mortality risk in a cohort of people living with MASLD, contingent on liver fibrosis and CKD status...
2024: PloS One
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Akintayo Akinleye, Olayinka Oremade, Xiaohui Xu
BACKGROUND: Exposure to heavy metals (cadmium, mercury, and lead) has been linked with adverse health outcomes, especially their nephrotoxic effects at high levels of exposure. We conducted a replication study to examine the association of low-level heavy metal exposure and chronic kidney disease (CKD) using a larger NHANES data set compared to previous studies. METHODS: The large cross-sectional study comprised 5,175 CKD cases out of 55677 participants aged 20-85 years from the 1999-2020 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [NHANES]...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lin Lin, Xinying Jiang, Lingling Liu, Jingcan Wu, Tiantian Yu, Yuting Wei, Man Li, Hui Peng, Cheng Wang
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to elucidate the prognostic role of Masked Morning Hypertension (MMH) in non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (NDD-CKD). METHODS: 2,130 NDD-CKD patients of inpatient department were categorized into four blood pressure groups: clinical normotension (CH-), clinical hypertension (CH+) with morning hypertension (MH+), and without MH+ (MH-) respectively. The correlation between these four blood pressure types and the primary (all-cause mortality) and secondary endpoints (cardio-cerebrovascular disease [CVD] and end-stage kidney disease [ESKD]) was analyzed...
April 16, 2024: American Journal of Hypertension
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maurizio Bossola, Barbara Picconi
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients have an increased risk for cognitive impairment compared to the general population. The risk is much higher in CKD patients who progress to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and require hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Multiple factors may contribute to cognitive impairment in CKD patients and in patients on chronic dialysis. However, the observation that, after kidney transplantation, there is an improvement in several cognitive performance markers and that some structural and functional brain abnormalities may improve suggests that cognitive deficits in patients on dialysis may be at least partially reversible...
April 16, 2024: Journal of Nephrology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Weibing Pan, Tianwei Yun, Xin Ouyang, Zhijun Ruan, Tuanjie Zhang, Yuhao An, Rui Wang, Peng Zhu
Kidney stone disease (KSD, also named renal calculi, nephrolithiasis, or urolithiasis) is a common urological disease entailing the formation of minerals and salts that form inside the urinary tract, frequently caused by diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, and monogenetic components in most patients. 10% of adults worldwide are affected by KSD, which continues to be highly prevalent and with increasing incidence. For the identification of novel therapeutic targets in KSD, we adopted high-throughput sequencing and mass spectrometry (MS) techniques in this study and carried out an integrative analysis of exosome proteomic data and DNA methylation data from blood samples of normal and KSD individuals...
April 16, 2024: Molecular Omics
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Mansi Satasia, Archit Garg, Kulani Weerasinghe, Chirag Patel, Mario Caldararo
Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory condition characterized by noncaseating granulomas. Lung involvement is typical, while extrapulmonary manifestations, notably lymphadenopathy, are observed in a significant proportion of cases. The etiology involves complex interactions among immune cells and mediators, resulting in granuloma formation capable of independently producing 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, leading to unregulated hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria. Diagnosis can be challenging, especially when hypercalcemia is the initial symptom...
March 2024: Curēus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hana Flogelova, Katerina Bouchalova, Oldrich Smakal, Jan Halek, Katerina Langova, Katerina Cizkova
BACKGROUND: Individuals with congenital solitary functioning kidney (SFK) are at an increased risk of kidney damage. According to some studies, the risk is higher in unilateral kidney agenesis (UKA) than in unilateral multicystic dysplastic kidney (UMCDK). We hypothesized that with early detection of children with UKA and UMCDK, there would be no difference in the presence of hypertension, proteinuria, and reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) between UKA and UMCDK. METHODS: Based on a long-term follow-up protocol, we evaluated a cohort of 160 children followed from birth for SFK (84 with UKA and 76 with UMCDK) detected by prenatal or routine neonatal ultrasound screening...
April 15, 2024: Pediatric Nephrology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jinxia Liu, Jane MacNaughtan, Annarein J C Kerbert, Theo Portlock, Javier Martínez Gonzalez, Yi Jin, Frederick Clasen, Abeba Habtesion, Huoyan Ji, Qin Jin, Alexandra Phillips, Francesco De Chiara, Ganesh Ingavle, Cesar Jimenez, Giacomo Zaccherini, Katherine Husi, Miguel Angel Rodriguez Gandia, Paul Cordero, Junpei Soeda, Lynda McConaghy, Jude Oben, Karen Church, Jia V Li, Haifeng Wu, Aarti Jalan, Pere Gines, Elsa Solà, Simon Eaton, Carrie Morgan, Michal Kowalski, Daniel Green, Amir Gander, Lindsey A Edwards, I Jane Cox, Helena Cortez-Pinto, Thomas Avery, Reiner Wiest, Francois Durand, Paolo Caraceni, Roberto Elosua, Joan Vila, Marco Pavesi, Vicente Arroyo, Nathan Davies, Rajeshwar P Mookerjee, Victor Vargas, Susan Sandeman, Gautam Mehta, Saeed Shoaie, Julian Marchesi, Agustín Albillos, Fausto Andreola, Rajiv Jalan
OBJECTIVE: Targeting bacterial translocation in cirrhosis is limited to antibiotics with risk of antimicrobial resistance. This study explored the therapeutic potential of a non-absorbable, gut-restricted, engineered carbon bead adsorbent, Yaq-001 in models of cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) and, its safety and tolerability in a clinical trial in cirrhosis. DESIGN: Performance of Yaq-001 was evaluated in vitro . Two-rat models of cirrhosis and ACLF, (4 weeks, bile duct ligation with or without lipopolysaccharide), receiving Yaq-001 for 2 weeks; and two-mouse models of cirrhosis (6-week and 12-week carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)) receiving Yaq-001 for 6 weeks were studied...
April 15, 2024: Gut
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Babak Ghajavand, Carla Avesani, Peter Stenvinkel, Annette Bruchfeld
The rising global incidence of chronic inflammatory diseases calls for innovative and sustainable medical solutions. Brewers' spent grain (BSG), a byproduct of beer production, presents a unique opportunity in this regard. This review explores the multifaceted health benefits of BSG, with a focus on managing chronic kidney disease (CKD). BSG is identified as a potent prebiotic with potential as a therapeutic agent in CKD. We emphasize the role of gut dysbiosis in CKD and discuss how BSG could help mitigate metabolic derangements resulting from dysbiosis and CKD...
April 13, 2024: Journal of Renal Nutrition
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Makoto Yamaguchi, Hirokazu Sugiyama, Akimasa Asai, Fumiya Kitamura, Hironobu Nobata, Hiroshi Kinashi, Takayuki Katsuno, Shogo Banno, Yasuhiko Ito, Takahiro Imaizumi, Masahiko Ando, Yoko Kubo, Maeda Keisuke, Yuria Ishida, Naoharu Mori, Takuji Ishimoto
OBJECTIVE: The clinical impact of malnutrition based on the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria in patients with kidney dysfunction remains poorly understood. This study investigated the usefulness of GLIM criteria for malnutrition predicting mortality in patients with kidney dysfunction and different clinical renal states, including no kidney disease (NKD), acute kidney injury (AKI), and chronic kidney disease (CKD). METHODS: This single-center retrospective cohort study included 6,712 patients aged ≥18 admitted between 2018 and 2019...
April 13, 2024: Journal of Renal Nutrition
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