Hypothyroidism Induced Severe Rhabdomyolysis in a Hemodialysis Patient by Erhan Tatar, Tolgay Isikyakar, Kezban Pinar Yeniay, Hasan Huseyin Uzuner, Ebru Sevinc Ok

“…Hypothyroidism occurs relatively common and is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality during the course of chronic kidney disease. Rhabdomyolysis is a potentially life-threatening condition characterised by necrosis of muscular tissue and rarely associates with hypothyroidism. …”
Get full text

Cystatin C as a Maker of the Renal Function: an Alternative by Alexander Benavides Couto, Javier Martínez Navarro

“…Due to its properties, cystatin C is a useful laboratory parameter in the diagnosis and prognosis of primary renal disease or related to other diseases, which secondarily cause kidney lesion.…”
Get full text

Renal Peripheral Neuroectodermal Tumor Presenting at Age 78: Case Report by Michelle E. Koski, Jason M. Tedesco, Peter E. Clark

“…Primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) of the kidney is a rare and aggressive tumor, often presenting in advanced stages and progressing rapidly. …”
Get full text

Resolving sub-internal limiting membrane haemorrhage mimicking as endogenous endophthalmitis by Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi, Loknath Mohanty, Japesh Thareja

“…The patient had been hospitalised for cerebral malaria and kidney infection. Streptococcus pneumoniae growth had been obtained from blood and urine cultures, and the patient had been diagnosed with endogenous endophthalmitis elsewhere. …”
Get full text

Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome with Eosinophilia and Purtscher-like Retinopathy: A Case Report by MEI Qimin, DAI Jiayuan, LIU Yecheng, SHEN Min, ZHU Huadong

“…Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), a rare disease caused by complement abnormalities, is characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute kidney injury. In this paper, we report a patient with severe renal insufficiency with rapidly progressive decline in binocular visual acuity, who developed eosinophilia during the course of the disease, and was diagnosed with aHUS after excluding other diseases. …”
Get full text

Renal Failure in Pregnancy: Case Reports and Review of the Literature by Yetkin Karasu, Berna Dilbaz, Kahraman Ülker

“…However, it is a severe health-deteriorating problem of pregnant women without a known kidney disease. Although its incidence is relatively low in developed countries (1/20000), it is still a serious health issue in the developing world. …”
Get full text

Classical and Variant Avian Infectious Bronchitis Virus Strains by Gary D. Butcher, David P. Shapiro, Richard D. Miles

“…Some strains of the virus cause severe kidney damage and may be associated with high mortality. …”
Get full text

A Case of Aortic Dissection Presenting with Atypical Symptoms and Diagnosed with Transthoracic Echocardiography by Mahdis Solhjoo, Supreeya Swarup, Amgad N. Makaryus

“…TTE is rapid and accurate and can be used in kidney failure. Our case highlights the important role of bedside echocardiography in the diagnosis of AD, especially in the patient with a typical symptoms in whom this diagnosis of AD may not be entertained and actually missed leading to negative and possibly deadly consequences.…”
Get full text

A Case Report of Purtscher-Like Retinopathy Secondary to Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in an Immunocompromised Patient by Alastair David Bezzina, Isaac Bertuello

“…To the best of our knowledge, we present the first case of a young adult male, on long-term immunosuppressive therapy following a live-donor kidney transplant, with Purtscher-like retinopathy (PLR) secondary to Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP). …”
Get full text

Febuxostat and Increased Dialysis as a Treatment for Severe Tophaceous Gout in a Hemodialysis Patient by Lynda Ann Frassetto, Suzanne Gibson

“…Uric acid accumulates in renal failure and is thought to be a uremic toxin—that is, higher levels of uric acid are more damaging to the kidneys. Urate crystals can precipitate in the kidney tubules, cause urate stones, and promote inflammatory changes in the renal interstitium and vascular endothelium. …”
Get full text

Diseases and causes of death among the popes by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…Among those who died of natural causes, multi-disease pathology was commonly present as is to be expected in an older population group, and acute terminal febrile illnesses, malaria, stroke, severe heart disease, gout or poly-arthritis, terminal kidney disease, gallstones, cancer, dysentery, the plague, lung infection, gangrene of a leg, abscesses, depression or debilitating psychiatric illness. …”
Get full text

Comparative analysis of propagation properties of ASFV Odintsvo 02/14 isolate in primary cell cultures by D. V. Sharypova, I. Yu. Zhukov, N. N. Vlasova, O. S. Puzankova, V. L. Gavrilova, A. S. Igolkin, N. V. Koropova, I. V. Zhbanova

“…The test results showed that the virus propagation was the most successful in porcine bone marrow and porcine kidney cells when fetal bovine serum and FS FetalClone II, multipurpose serum substitute were added.…”
Get full text

Lactobacillus Endocarditis-Associated Glomerulonephritis Complicated by anti-Coagulant Nephropathy and Renal Amyloidosis by Mitchell Moosavi, Jonathan E. Zuckerman

“…Kidney injury is a well-known sequelae of infectious endocarditis. …”
Get full text

Polyoma BK Virus: An Oncogenic Virus? by Syed Hassan, Zaid Alirhayim, Syed Ahmed, Syed Amer

“…We report a case of a 65-year-old gentleman with a history of end stage renal disease who underwent a successful cadaveric donor kidney transplant four years ago. He subsequently developed BK virus nephropathy related to chronic immunosuppressant therapy. …”
Get full text

Hyperchloremic Metabolic Acidosis due to Cholestyramine: A Case Report and Literature Review by Fareed B. Kamar, Rory F. McQuillan

“…This medication can rarely cause hyperchloremic nonanion gap metabolic acidosis, a complication featured in this report of an adult male with concomitant acute kidney injury. This case emphasizes the caution that must be taken in prescribing cholestyramine to patients who may also be volume depleted, in renal failure, or taking spironolactone.…”
Get full text

Concomitant abdominal organ transplantation alongside lung transplantation: An ISHLT transplant database analysis by Renita Wilson, BS, J. Asher Jenkins, MD, Juan Maria Farina, MD, Blake Langlais, MS, Bashar Aqel, MD, Ashraf Omar, MD, Jonathan D’Cunha, MD, PhD, Pedro Reck dos Santos, MD, PhD

“…Background: Concomitant abdominal organ transplant of the liver, kidney, and/or pancreas with lung transplant (Con-AbLTx) may be considered for appropriate patients who present with end-stage disease of multiple organ systems. …”
Get full text

ANGPTL4: A Predictive Marker for Diabetic Nephropathy by Eman Al Shawaf, Mohamed Abu-Farha, Sriraman Devarajan, Zahra Alsairafi, Irina Al-Khairi, Preethi Cherian, Hamad Ali, Aditi Mathur, Fahd Al-Mulla, Abdulnabi Al Attar, Jehad Abubaker

“…Altogether, this suggests a potential role for ANGPTL4 in DN perhaps through its role in inhibiting LPL activity and promotes ANGPTL4 as a biochemical marker for the detection of a diabetic kidney disease in patients with T2D.…”
Get full text

The efficacy and safety of peroperative statin treatment during coronary artery bypass grafting by I.V. Shklianka, O.J. Zharinov, К.O. Mikhaliev, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…Perioperative statin initiation was associated with decrease in the frequency of postoperative atrial fibrillation and not accompanied by significant changes of liver and kidney markers dysfunction, including group of patients receiving high doses of statins.…”
Get full text

Identification of alterations in the nucleotide sequence of the chromatin remodeling gene PBRM1 in clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients by E. A. Klimentova, I. R. Gilyazova, A. A. Izmailov, I. M. Sultanov, M. A. Bermisheva, V. N. Pavlov, E. K. Khusnutdinova

“…Kidney cancer is a heterogeneous group of malignant tumors, the vast majority of which are renal cell carcinomas (RCC) of various morphological types, of which the most common is the clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). …”
Get full text

Abnormal Obesity Phenotype Is Associated with Reduced eGFR among Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertensive Patients in a Peri-Urban Community in Ghana by Richard K. D. Ephraim, Frederick Ahordzor, Kwame Kumi Asare, Evans Duah, Ibrahim W. Naveh-Fio, Grace Essuman, Justice Afrifa

“…Significant complications of DM include kidney disease due to its association with hypertension and obesity. …”
Get full text