Choosing between GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and DPP-4 Inhibitors: A Pharmacological Perspective by Dominique Xavier Brown, Marc Evans

“…Overall, a personalized medicine approach has been found to be favourable, tailoring the incretin agent to benefit and suit patient's needs such as renal impairment (RI) or hepatic impairment (HI).…”
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Postrenal Failure due to Urinary Stones Associated with Acute Viral Gastroenteritis: Three Case Reports by Satoru Kira, Takahiko Mitsui, Hidenori Zakoji, Tadashi Aoki, Norifumi Sawada, Tatsuya Miyamoto, Masayuki Takeda

“…Acute gastroenteritis with viral infection in infants causes severe diarrhea and often results in acute renal failure due to severe dehydration. However, a viral infection, particularly rotavirus, rarely induces postrenal failure due to bilateral stones in infants. …”
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Update on New Antigens in the Pathogenesis of Membranous Nephropathy by Maurizio Salvadori, Aris Tsalouchos

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Gastric and Duodenal Pseudomelanosis: An Extended Unusual Finding in a Patient with End Stage Kidney Disease by Noor Ul Ain Qureshi, Muhammad Faraz Younus, Kourosh Alavi, Muhammad Yasin Sheikh

“…However, this benign condition is associated with a variety of clinical conditions, such as essential hypertension, chronic renal failure, diabetes mellitus, long term intake of iron supplements, and furosemide. …”
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Fatal Overdose due to Confusion of an Transdermal Fentanyl Delivery System by Ingo Voigt

“…Laboratory test showed an impaired renal function and metabolic acidosis. Urine drug test was negative at admittance and 12 h later. …”
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Renovascular Mistaken as Essential Hypertension due to Giant Hepatic Hydatid: A Rare Treatable Entity by Awaji Qasim Alnami, Liaqat Ali Khan, Said Samir Qeshta, Abdulrahman Alnami, Akram Awad, Waleed Mohalwi, Musa Tumaihi

“…Renovascular hypertension is an unusual but treatable cause of refractory hypertension that is infrequently caused by external compression of the renal vasculature by a giant hydatid cyst, a parasitic infection, caused by Echinococcus granulosus in its larval stage which is endemic in many parts of the world including Saudi Arabia. …”
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Examinations of effects of socio-demographic features and disease-related data of patients with hemodialysis on the quality of life by Elif Togay, Hatice Öntürk Akyüz

“…In addition, 24% had another family member who received dialysis treatment, with hypertension as the etiology in 35.6% of chronic renal failure (CRF). The findings showed that 93.8% patients had no previous transplantation, and 62.9% considered future transplantation.Within the scope of this research, the findings suggest that the quality of life of dialysis patients was poor. …”
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A Simple Technique to Facilitate Treatment of Urethral Strictures with Optical Internal Urethrotomy by Konstantinos Stamatiou, Aggeliki Papadatou, Hippocrates Moschouris, Ioannis Kornezos, Anargiros Pavlis, Georgios Christopoulos

“…Urethral stricture is a common condition that can lead to serious complications such as urinary infections and renal insufficiency secondary to urinary retention. …”
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A Case of Severe and Refractory Membranous Nephropathy Associated to Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid by Eric Mereniuk, Laura Sabbah, Jean-Paul Makhzoum

“…A 35-year-old woman with known MMP was referred to our clinic for new-onset generalized edema and proteinuria. MN was confirmed on renal biopsy. Despite therapy with high-dose systemic glucocorticoids, combined with mycophenolate mofetil, and later azathioprine, nephrotic-range proteinuria persisted even at a daily dose of prednisone of 40 mg. …”
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ANCA-Associated Vasculitic Neuropathy: A Case Report by M. Jakiševaitė, I. Navickaitė, G. Žemgulytė

“…However, due to the lack of typical symptoms, VN was diagnosed only after acute renal failure evolved. This case demonstrates the many symptoms that AAV can present with and the importance of a thorough differential diagnosis for multiple mononeuropathies. …”
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Central Precocious Puberty as a Complication of Therapy with Adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and an Aromatase Inhibitor for Refractory Nephrotic Syndrome by Sungeeta Agrawal, Robert Gensure, Lawrence Milner, Julie Nicoletta, Abdollah Sadeghi-Nejad

“…She underwent related renal transplant but again developed proteinuria and was started on ACTH. …”
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Simultaneous Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax Revealed Birt-Hogg-Dubè Syndrome by Alessandro Tamburrini, Francesco Sellitri, Federico Tacconi, Francesco Brancati, Tommaso Claudio Mineo

“…Birt-Hogg-Dubè syndrome is a rare inherited disorder clinically characterized by multiple fibrofolliculomas, renal tumors, lung cysts, and, in ~24% of the patients, occurrence of spontaneous pneumothorax. …”
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A Case of the Nutcracker Syndrome Developed after Delivery by Koji Tsumura, Kanae Yoshida, Sachi Yamamoto, Sayuri Takahashi, Katsuyuki Iida, Yutaka Enomoto

“…Urethrocystoscopic examination failed to show hematuria coming from the ureteral orifice; however, enhanced computed tomography revealed the compression of the left renal vein between the aorta and superior mesenteric artery. …”
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Infant of a diabetic mother: clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment by Magdalena Suda-Całus, Katarzyna Dąbrowska, Ewa Gulczyńska

“…Less common complications in IDMs are: persistent pulmonary hypertension, hyperbilirubinemia, renal vein thrombosis, small left colon syndrome, intrauterine death, polycythemia, and a predisposition to obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes later in life. …”
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Marfan Syndrome and Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Case of Rare Co-occurrence or Coincidence? by Arjun Sekar

“…Case presentation: A young male presented for incidentally found renal cysts. Kidney function was well preserved, but the patient had positive family history of ADPKD. …”
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A new atypical splice mutation in PKD2 leading to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in a Chinese family by Junlin Zhang, Yiting Wang, Yingwang Zhao, Fang Liu

“…Introduction: Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a very common hereditary renal disorder. Mutations in PKD1 and PKD2, identified as disease-causing genes, account for 85% and 15% of the ADPKD cases, respectively. …”
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Interarm Difference in Blood Pressure: Reproducibility and Association with Peripheral Vascular Disease by Jesper Mehlsen, Niels Wiinberg

“…Data were included from consecutive patients referred from their general practitioner to our vascular laboratory for possible PAD aged 50 years or older without known cardiac disease, renal disease, or diabetes mellitus. 824 patients (453 women) with mean age of 72 years (range: 50–101) were included. 491 patients had a diagnosis of hypertension and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) was present in 386 patients. …”
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Unusual Infections Complicating the Use of Steroids with Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis: Report of 2 Cases by Vitor Arantes, Pina Michieletti, Ross Cameron, Jenny Heathcote, Morris Sherman

“…Corticosteroid therapy for acute alcoholic hepatitis has been demonstrated to enhance survival in patients who are encephalopathic, and who do not have renal failure or gastrointestinal bleeding. However, the complications of steroid therapy in such patients have been less well documented. …”
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Fourteen-Year Patency of an Anterior Tibial Artery-Saphenous Vein Fistula in an Ambulatory Patient by Zerrin Pulathan, Gökalp Altun

“…Ankle arteriovenous fistulas are the rarest vascular access type among lower extremity fistulas for hemodialysis patients with end-stage renal disease. Here, we present a case of a tibial-saphenous fistula that remained open for a long time despite a recurrent anastomotic aneurysm. …”
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BABESIOSIS IN HUMANS by Zornitsa Traykova

“…There is a risk of potentially fatal complications such as acute respiratory, renal or multi-organ failure, particularly in vulnerable populations. …”
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