Unilateral Nonconfluent Cluster of Micronodules: Atypical Radiologic Appearance of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in an Immunocompetent Patient by Bushra Johari, Mohammad Hanafiah

“…There were also incidental findings of the partial duplex system of the left kidney with mild-to-moderate hydronephrosis in the lower moiety with proximal hydroureter. …”
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Design and Performance Investigation of a Robot-Assisted Flexible Ureteroscopy System by Jianchang Zhao, Jianmin Li, Liang Cui, Chaoyang Shi, Guowu Wei

“…Flexible ureteroscopy (FURS) has been developed and has become a preferred routine procedure for both diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones and other renal diseases inside the urinary tract. …”
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Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury in a Healthy Patient following PCSK9-Inhibitor Injection by B.-O. Stüben, D. P. Hoyer, S. Radunz, F. Saner, H. Schmidt, H. A. Baba, J. W. Treckmann, L. I. Mazilescu

“…Four weeks following admission, the patient fully recovered after initially receiving short-term cortisol therapy and open albumin (OPAL) dialysis, and the indices of liver, kidney, and coagulation function were normal at discharge. …”
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A COVID-19 Patient Presenting with Pneumothorax by Seyyedeh Narjes Abootalebi, Eslam Shorafa, Alireza Abbaspour, Seyed Sina Dehghani, Mehdi Forooghi

“…Although most patients with COVID-19 manifest as viral pneumonia characterized by symptoms such as fever, dyspnea, and cough, atypical presentations such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and acute kidney or cardiac injury have been reported amongst COVID-19 patients. …”
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Inverted Nutcracker Syndrome: A Case of Persistent Hematuria and Pain in the Presence of a Left-Sided Inferior Vena Cava by Obi Ekwenna, Michael A. Gorin, Miguel Castellan, Victor Casillas, Gaetano Ciancio

“…Nutcracker syndrome is described as the symptomatic compression of left renal vein between the aorta and the superior mesenteric artery, resulting in outflow congestion of the left kidney. We present the case of a 51-year-old male with a left-sided inferior vena cava, resulting in compression of the right renal vein by the superior mesenteric artery. …”
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Harnessing Machine Learning for Diabetes Prediction: Optimizing Classifiers to Tackle Canada's Growing Health Challenge by Mark Gerald Anastacio, Alam Md Twariqul

“…Reactive diagnostic techniques, including simple glucose tests, are mainly used to diagnose diabetes when it has grown worse, which results in the late implementation of measures that can potentially reduce cardiovascular disease and kidney failure. The existing gap is the lack of adequate risk predictors that would enable early detection of the susceptible person before the symptom(s) appear. …”
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Diabetes Prediction Through Linkage of Causal Discovery and Inference Model with Machine Learning Models by Mi Jin Noh, Yang Sok Kim

“…<b>Methods</b>: Kaggle’s dataset from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases was analyzed using logistic regression, deep learning, gradient boosting, and decision trees. …”
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The determination of the selenium levels in the blood and tissues of mice given selenium by İbrahim Pirinçci, Ahmet Ateşşahin, İzzet Karahan, İrfan Demirbaş

“…Whereas, when it was intraperitoneal^ given, the selenium levels were defined to reach to the maximum levels in blood at 10 and 30th min; in liver at 30th min and 2 nd hours; in kidney at 1st hour; in spleen at 15 and 30th min; in heart at 10 and 15th min; in muscle at 24 and 8th hours according to doses, respectively. …”
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Acute Renal Failure due to a Tobramycin and Vancomycin Spacer in Revision Two-Staged Knee Arthroplasty by Ronak A. Patel, Hayden P. Baker, Sara B. Smith

“…We present a case of a two-stage revision total knee arthroplasty in which a cement antibiotic spacer caused acute renal failure and ultimately resulted in persistent chronic kidney disease without hemodialysis at 2 months’ follow-up. …”
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Simultaneous Penile and Signet Ring Cell Bladder Carcinoma in Renal Transplant Recipient: A First Case by Francesca Manassero, Gianluca Giannarini, Davide Paperini, Andrea Mogorovich, Greta Alí, Ugo Boggi, Cesare Selli

“…The patient received kidney transplantation 7 years prior to this event. …”
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Herpes zoster after left nephroureterectomy for renal carcinoma: a case report by Yuren Zhang, Jie Li, Qing Ni

“…Case presentation A 68-year-old man developed herpes zoster at the surgical site and severe neuralgia following left nephroureterectomy for left kidney clear cell carcinoma accompanied by postoperative renal insufficiency. …”
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Renal Replacement Therapy in the Critical Care Setting by Adeel Rafi Ahmed, Ayanfeoluwa Obilana, David Lappin

“…Renal replacement therapy (RRT) is frequently required to manage critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI). There is limited evidence to support the current practice of RRT in intensive care units (ICUs). …”
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Roles of Lymphocyte Kv1.3-Channels in the Pathogenesis of Renal Diseases and Novel Therapeutic Implications of Targeting the Channels by Itsuro Kazama

“…We recently demonstrated that benidipine, a potent dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker, which also strongly and persistently inhibits the lymphocyte Kv1.3-channel currents, suppressed the proliferation of kidney lymphocytes and actually ameliorated the progression of renal fibrosis. …”
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Metabolic Changes after Urinary Diversion by Frank Van der Aa, Steven Joniau, Marcel Van Den Branden, Hein Van Poppel

“…Urinary diversion can affect hepatic metabolism, certainly in the presence of urea-splitting bacteria. The kidney function has to be monitored prior to and lifelong after urinary diversion. …”
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Blunt Renal Trauma in a Pre-Existing Renal Lesion by G.V. Soundra Pandyan, Idris Omo-Adua, Mohammed Al Rashid, Ahmed Bakheet Zaharan

“…A pre-existing renal lesion (PERL) was strongly suspected by his past history of gross macroscopic hematuria and monotrauma to the kidney without other associated injuries. Spiral CT scan with contrast and a retrograde pyelogram (RGP) confirmed an occult complex renal cyst. …”
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Polycythemia with Renal Cell Carcinoma and Normal Erythropoietin Level by Jonathan Kopel, Pranav Sharma, Irfan Warriach, Sriman Swarup

“…Further evaluation with computerized tomography (CT) and ultrasound showed a large renal mass suspicious for renal cell carcinoma of the right kidney. An incidental abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) measuring was also appreciated on imaging. …”
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45,X/47,XXX Mosaicism and Short Stature by Erica Everest, Laurie A. Tsilianidis, Anzar Haider, Douglas G. Rogers, Nouhad Raissouni, Bahareh Schweiger

“…She also suffered from vesicoureteric reflux and kidney dysfunction prior to having surgery on her ureters. …”
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The Practice Innovation and Clinical Excellence Registry and the Eighth Joint National Committee by Ernesto Ledesma Sánchez, Carlos Alberto Hernández Rodríguez, Alexander Miguel Martínez Pérez, Alberto Morales Salinas

“…One of them is the recommendation to raise the treatment goal in hypertensive patients over 60 years of age (with no history of diabetes or chronic kidney disease) to &lt;150/90 mmHg. This paper discusses the results of a study from the Practice Innovation and Clinical Excellence Registry comprising 1,185,253 hypertensive individuals treated at US medical ambulatory services. …”
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Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Revealing Renogastric Fistula: A Case Report and Literature Review by Yassine Mellagui, Inass Haouli, Jamal Ouachaou, Mohammed Aabdi, Houssam Bkiyar, Brahim Housni

“…A renogastric fistula is a rare complication defined by abnormal communication between the kidney and the stomach. We report the case of a patient admitted to the intensive care unit for hemorrhagic shock following upper gastrointestinal bleeding whose radiological investigations revealed a fistulated renal hematoma in the stomach.…”
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Interferon Induced Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis by Yusuf Kayar, Nuket Bayram Kayar, Nadir Alpay, Jamshid Hamdard, Iskender Ekinci, Sebnem Emegil, Rabia Bag Soydas, Birol Baysal

“…Here, we present a case of FSGS identified with kidney biopsy in a patient who had been diagnosed with Behçet’s disease and received interferon-alpha treatment for uveitis and presented with acute renal failure and nephrotic syndrome associated with interferon.…”
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