Renal Cell Carcinoma in Fistulizing Crohn’s Disease Patient Who Received Anti-TNF α Therapy by Abdullah Mohammed Albishi, Rafaat Chakik, Mohammed Bazeed

“…CT  abdomen showed a well-defined hypodense focal lesion originally from the left kidney near the hilum region with a clue sign. Colonoscopy was performed and showed only terminal ileitis. …”
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Effect of Ribavirin on Hepatitis A Virus Replication In Vitro by Rabindra K Chaudhary, Anton P Andonov

“…The effect of ribavirin on fetal Rhesus monkey kidney cells (FRhK-4) acutely or chronically infected with hepatitis A virus was studied. …”
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NFAT5 Contributes to Osmolality-Induced MCP-1 Expression in Mesothelial Cells by Christoph Küper, Franz-X. Beck, Wolfgang Neuhofer

“…Recent studies suggest that in kidney cells osmolality-induced MCP-1 upregulation is mediated by the osmosensitive transcription factor, nuclear factor of activated T cells 5 (NFAT5). …”
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Multifocal Extranodal Involvement of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma by Devrim Cabuk, Y. Taha Gullu, Ilknur Basyigit, Ozgur Acikgoz, Kazım Uygun, Kursat Yildiz, Fusun Yildiz

“…Endobronchial involvement of extrapulmonary malignant tumors is uncommon and mostly associated with breast, kidney, colon, and rectum carcinomas. A 68-year-old male with a prior diagnosis of colon non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) was admitted to the hospital with a complaint of cough, sputum, and dyspnea. …”
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Arterial Stiffness and Dialysis Calcium Concentration by Fabrice Mac-Way, Amélie Leboeuf, Mohsen Agharazii

“…Aortic stiffness is also associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and general population. …”
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An in vitro model of the glomerular capillary wall using electrospun collagen nanofibres in a bioartificial composite basement membrane. by Sadie C Slater, Vince Beachley, Thomas Hayes, Daming Zhang, Gavin I Welsh, Moin A Saleem, Peter W Mathieson, Xuejun Wen, Bo Su, Simon C Satchell

“…The filtering unit of the kidney, the glomerulus, contains capillaries whose walls function as a biological sieve, the glomerular filtration barrier. …”
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Xanthogranulomatous Inflammation of Colon: A Case Report by Ramya Lakshminarayanan, Priyathersini Nagarajan, Divya Madhala, N Nitesh

“…However, most common sites being kidney and gallbladder. XGI has been infrequently documented in the colon, particularly with stricture formation. …”
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Identification of ligand and receptor interactions in CKD and MASH through the integration of single cell and spatial transcriptomics. by Jaime Moreno, Lise Lotte Gluud, Elisabeth D Galsgaard, Henning Hvid, Gianluca Mazzoni, Vivek Das

“…<h4>Background</h4>Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) are metabolic fibroinflammatory diseases. …”
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Frailty among Older Adults Who Developed Acute Coronary Syndrome during Hospitalization for Noncardiac Illness and Their Outcome: A Prospective Observational Study by Arun David, Priya Vijayakumar, M Vijayakumar

“…Results: Majority of them had non-ST elevation ACS (90.2%) in Group II, and acute kidney injury (27.1%) was the most common reason for admission. …”
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Little strokes fell big oaks: The use of weak magnetic fields and reactive oxygen species to fight cancer by Margit Egg, Thomas Kietzmann

“…The increase in early-stage cancers, particularly gastrointestinal, breast and kidney cancers, has been linked to lifestyle changes such as consumption of processed foods and physical inactivity, which contribute to obesity and diabetes - major cancer risk factors. …”
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Critical Care Management for Novel 2019 SARS-CoV-2 and HCoV-NL63 Coinfection in a Young Immunocompromised Patient: A Chicago Experience by Alejandro Sanchez-Nadales, Miguel Treminio-Quezada, Hasan Abad, Jessica Navarro-Motta, Pamela Contreras-Chavez, Anil Kachru, Chae Chu

“…Her clinical course exhibited complications, including pulmonary embolism, acute kidney injury, pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, multiple cardiac arrests, and eventually death. …”
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Mental Health in Non-Oncologic Urology Patients by Danyon Anderson, Devesh Kumar, Divya Divya, Jose L. Zepeda, Abrahim N. Razzak, Jamal Hasoon, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits

“…Pathologies represented in this review include Peyronie's Disease (PD), erectile dysfunction (ED), urinary incontinence and urinary tract infections (UTI), infertility, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), kidney stones, and urinary retention. While there has been great interventional focus as of late for urogenitary malignancies (i.e. prostate cancer awareness with the Movember campaign), literature studies and intervention focused on non-oncologic urology patients has been limited. …”
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Denosumab-Induced Hypocalcemia after Billroth II Gastric Bypass Surgery by Abigail M. Schmucker, Dina E. Green, Philip M. Montemuro

“…Denosumab-induced hypocalcemia has been previously reported in patients with predisposing conditions including chronic kidney disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis, Crohn’s disease, and a history of sleeve gastrectomy for marginal gastric ulcers. …”
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Delayed Presentation of Gluteal Compartment Syndrome: The Argument for Fasciotomy by John E. Lawrence, Duncan J. Cundall-Curry, Kuldeep K. Stohr

“…Blood tests revealed acute kidney injury with raised creatinine kinase and the patient was treated for rhabdomyolysis. …”
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3D In Vitro Human Organ Mimicry Devices for Drug Discovery, Development, and Assessment by Aida Rodriguez-Garcia, Jacqueline Oliva-Ramirez, Claudia Bautista-Flores, Samira Hosseini

“…In this article, a thorough review is provided of the latest advancements in the area of organ-on-chip devices targeting liver, kidney, lung, gut, heart, skin, and brain mimicry devices for drug discovery, development, and/or assessment. …”
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Can Chronic Nitric Oxide Inhibition Improve Liver and Renal Dysfunction in Bile Duct Ligated Rats? by Mona Fouad Mahmoud, Sara Zakaria, Ahmed Fahmy

“…The aims of the present work were to study the effects of chronic NO inhibition on liver cirrhosis and to analyze its relationship with liver and kidney damage markers. Two inhibitors of NO synthesis (inducible NO synthase (iNOS) inhibitor, aminoguanidine (AG), and nonselective NOS inhibitor, L-nitroarginine methyl ester (L-NAME)) were administered for 6 weeks to bile duct ligated (BDL) rats 3 days after surgery. …”
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Spontaneous Clearance of Hepatitis C after Liver and Renal Transplantation by CH Dale, P Burns, M McCutcheon, R Hernandez-Alejandro, PJ Marotta

“…A case of spontaneous clearance of HCV RNA in an immunocompromised patient, within five months of simultaneous liver and kidney retransplantation is described. Importantly, this patient had no previous exposure to interferon.…”
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Cryo-electron tomography pipeline for plasma membranes by Willy W. Sun, Dennis J. Michalak, Kem A. Sochacki, Prasanthi Kunamaneni, Marco A. Alfonzo-Méndez, Andreas M. Arnold, Marie-Paule Strub, Jenny E. Hinshaw, Justin W. Taraska

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Protective Effect of Thyme Extract on Albino Rats Exposed to Paraquat by Nazar M. Shareef Mahmood

“…Paraquat administration showed significant decrease in BW, food intake, liver, kidney weight also PQ increased malondialdehyde (MDA), low density lipoprotein (LDL), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and, uric acid (UA) significantly. …”
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Pyogenic Liver Abscess Caused by Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in a 21-Year-Old Male by Samuel Igbinedion, Meher S. Mavuram, Moheb Boktor, John Bienvenu

“…CT abdomen with contrast revealed an 8.4 cm multiloculated right hepatic mass extending to the kidney. Patient was started on broad spectrum antibiotics, given septic presentation. …”
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