Urinary Podocyte Excretion Predicts Urinary Protein Selectivity and Renal Prognosis by Makoto Abe, Akiko Kaiga, Takehiro Ohira, Toshihiko Ishimitsu, Akihiro Tojo

“…The renal prognosis, including induction of hemodialysis or 30% reduction in eGFR, was investigated. …”
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Incidence Of Acute Kidney Injury In Mild, Moderate And Severe Cases Of Coronavirus Disease by Mahvesh Mahmud, Ashok Kumar, Khurram Baqai

“…Acute kidney injury (AKI) survivors had a complete recovery rate of 70%, a partial recovery rate of 22%, and a hemodialysis dependency rate of 8%. Conclusion: Patients with severe COVID-19 infection often develop more severe AKI, and those in the severe or critical stages often exhibit proteinuria and dipstick hematuria. …”
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D-Shaped Left Ventricle, Anatomic, and Physiologic Implications by Eder Hans Cativo Calderon, Tuoyo O. Mene-Afejuku, Rachna Valvani, Diana P. Cativo, Devendra Tripathi, Hans A. Reyes, Savi Mushiyev

“…While patient received hemodialysis therapy and intravascular volume was removed, patient blood pressure was noted to increase, paradox. …”
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Rare Presentation of Hypoglycemia in a Patient with Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma by Raed Aldahash

“…Thus, involvement of other organs is very rare as we found in a 54-year-old male patient, a known case of hypertension and end-stage renal disease who was on hemodialysis, who presented to the emergency department with a history of generalized weakness and weight loss of about 20 kg for two months. …”
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Ultrasound Assisted Catheter Directed Thrombolysis in the Management of a Right Atrial Thrombus: A New Weapon in the Armamentarium? by Mohamed Shokr, Ramanjit Kaur, Kevin Belgrave, Arshad Javed, Mahir Elder, Shaun Cardozo, Luis Afonso, Amir Kaki

“…CRT carries a mortality rate of 18% in hemodialysis patients and more than 40% in nonhemodialysis patients. …”
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Herpes Simplex Virus Hepatitis in an Immunocompetent Adult: A Fatal Outcome due to Liver Failure by Rachel A. Poley, Jaime F. Snowdon, Daniel W. Howes

“…She was started on N-acetylcysteine, a bicarbonate infusion, hemodialysis, and multiple vasopressors and inotropes. …”
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Hemoadsorption in Multiorgan Failure Due to Viscerocutaneous Loxoscelism by Raúl Valenzuela Córdova, David Rivera Estrella, José F. Bernardo, Darío Jiménez, Celia Rodríguez Tudero, Raúl Elías, José C. De La Flor

“…Despite treatment with intravenous (IV) monovalent antiloxoscelism serum, antibiotic therapy, and corticosteroids, the patient’s evolution was poor, and she was admitted to the critical care unit for severe multi-organ involvement, including hepatic and kidney damage and coagulation disorders, eventually requiring hemodialysis support and hemoadsorption therapy. After the therapy was administered, rapid improvement was evident with the suspension of vasopressor support and a decrease in inflammatory markers. …”
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A Case of Urachal Carcinoma of the Abdominal Wall in a Kidney Transplant Recipient by Takuya Yamazaki, Yasushi Nagaba, Yoshitaka Shimada, Yoshinori Taoka, Satoru Minamida, Dai Koguchi, Masahiro Hagiwara, Sho Watanuki, Hide Nagaba, Kazunari Yoshida, Yasuo Takeuchi

“…Abdominal CT showed massive ascites and an abdominal wall cystic mass separated from the peritoneal cavity. Hemodialysis was started, and paralytic ileus was diagnosed and treated. …”
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High-Urgency Renal Transplantation: Indications and Long-Term Outcomes by Lampros Kousoulas, Nikos Emmanouilidis, Wilfried Gwinner, Jürgen Klempnauer, Frank Lehner

“…The major indication for the HU renal transplantation was the imminent lack of access for either hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis (67%). The patient survival of the study population was 67%, 56%, and 56%, whereas the graft survival was 47%, 35% and 35%, at 5, 10, and 15 years, respectively. …”
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Levamisole/Cocaine Induced Systemic Vasculitis and Immune Complex Glomerulonephritis by Lohit Garg, Sagar Gupta, Abhishek Swami, Ping Zhang

“…There was no renal recovery and he remained hemodialysis dependent.…”
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Incidence and Risk Factors of Postcontrast Acute Kidney Injury in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke by Sirichai Chusiri, Aurauma Chutinet, Nijasri Charnnarong Suwanwela, Chankit Puttilerpong

“…However, postcontrast acute kidney injury (PC-AKI) is a potential adverse effect of the contrast media used, which may require hemodialysis and cause a longer hospital stay. The incidence and risk factors of PC-AKI in acute ischemic stroke patients, particularly in Thailand, remain unclear. …”
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Failed Switching off in the MIBI-Parathyroid Scintigraphy in a Dialyzed Patient with Secondary Hyperparathyroidism Responsive to Cinacalcet Therapy by Piergiorgio Bolasco, Alessandra Serra, Maurizio Loi, Andrea Galfré, Mario Piga

“…It is described the case of a 73-year-old man on hemodialysis from 1995 for ESRD. Within 2 years the patient gradually developed SHPT with progressively increased iPTH up to 1,000 ρg/ml. …”
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Cardiogenic Shock in a Hemodialyzed Patient on Flecainide: Treatment with Intravenous Fat Emulsion, Extracorporeal Cardiac Life Support, and CytoSorb® Hemoadsorption by Nicolas De Schryver, Philippe Hantson, Vincent Haufroid, Mélanie Dechamps

“…A 67-year-old woman with a history of end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis received a therapeutic dose (150 mg daily) of flecainide for three weeks. …”
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Surgical Management of Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis: A Case Report in Kidney Transplant Patient by R. Shahbazov, M. Talanian, J. L. Alejo, F. Azari, A. Agarwal, K. L. Brayman

“…This patient received PD for 7 years but changed to hemodialysis (HD) in the year of transplant due to consistent signs and symptoms of underdialysis. …”
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Toxic epidermal necrolysis with thrombocytopenia induced by intravenous immunoglobulin: a case report and mini review by Yoshihiro Nishita, Masatoshi Taga, Nozomi Arakawa, Tomoki Ishida, Sawako Ochiai, Hiroto Ono, Fumiaki Taga, Togen Masauji

“…Case presentation An 83-year-old man with end-stage renal failure on hemodialysis was diagnosed with TEN. After an inadequate response to pulse methylprednisolone therapy, IVIg (400 mg/kg/day) was administered for 5 days. …”
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Chronic Kidney Disease in the Eastern Region of the State of Mexico: Implication of the Social Determinants of Health by Luis Enrique Hernández Gamundi, Donovan Casas Patiño, Alejandra Rodríguez Torres, Angélica Heredia Sánchez

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> the voice of the disease is relegated to be devastating in its attention and way of living; income due to constant travel, medical care costs and unemployment conjugates a deadly trap that conditions the economic fragmentation of the patient; public policies are unattainable -referring to the transplant program-; culture shows a religious symbolism of protection to the health coupled with social stigmatization for suffering chronic kidney disease CKD; the health system transits in lack of service guarantees -dialysis, hemodialysis, lack of supplies-; gender shows equality in care but overload of women in patient care. …”
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Incidence and outcomes of dysnatremia in crush injury patients admitted to Türkiye’s largest hospital following the Kahramanmaraş earthquake by Merve Yazla, Fatih Mehmet Aksoy

“…Age, gender, the city where patients came from, type of presentation, injured organ systems and extremities, laboratory findings, ward admission, intensive care admission, GCS, MESS, ISS, RTS, TRISS, and hemodialysis sessions were analyzed. Results A total of 422 earthquake victims with crush injuries were included in the study. …”
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Deceased Donor Renal Transplantation Combined with Bilateral Nephrectomy in a Patient with Tuberous Sclerosis and Renal Failure by R. Novotny, J. Chlupac, T. Marada, S. Bloudickova-Rajnochova, H. Vavrinova, L. Janousek, J. Fronek

“…Postoperative period was complicated by delayed graft function caused by acute tubular necrosis requiring postoperative hemodialysis. The patient was discharged on the 17th postoperative day with a good renal graft function. …”
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Adrenal Hemangioma: A Case of Retroperitoneal Tumor by Genta Iwamoto, Kota Shimokihara, Takashi Kawahara, Daiji Takamoto, Masahiro Yao, Jun-ichi Teranishi, Masako Otani, Hiroji Uemura

“…A 52-year-old man was referred to our department for further examination of his left retroperitoneal tumor. He had received hemodialysis due to chronic renal failure resulting from membranous nephropathy. …”
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Mycobacterium fortuitum and Polymicrobial Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Peritonitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Anwar Hamade, Agnieszka Pozdzik, O. Denis, Monika Tooulou, Caroline Keyzer, F. Jacobs, Jose Khabbout, Joëlle L. Nortier

“…We report a case of a 52-year-old man on PD, who developed refractory polymicrobial peritonitis necessitating PD catheter removal and shift to hemodialysis. Thereafter, M. fortuitum was identified in the PD catheter culture and in successive cultures of initial peritoneal effluent and patient was treated with amikacin and ciprofloxacin for six months with a good and sustained clinical response. …”
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