A Case of Uterine Lymphangioleiomyomatosis Complicated by Tuberous Sclerosis Complex by Kaori Yamada, Yukio Yamanishi, Junichi Aratake, Nanayo Sasagasako, Yoshihide Inayama, Rei Gou, Atsuko Kawamura, Megumi Yamanishi, Kenzo Kosaka

“…After everolimus was administered for a previously diagnosed renal angiolipoma, her uterine tumors temporarily decreased in size. …”
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Rapid Growth of Lung Nodules due to Combined Pulmonary Vasculitis, Silicoanthracosis, and Chondrocalcinosis by Wolfgang Jungraithmayr, Stefanos Tzafos, Oliver Distler, Antonios G. A. Kolios, Walter Weder, Daniel Franzen

“…We present the case of a 62-year old former pit worker with pulmonary nodules, chondrocalcinosis due to calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD), and a history of renal cancer. Within a short period of time, pulmonary nodules grew rapidly. …”
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Sympathetic Nervous Regulation in Patients with Cirrhosis: Pathogenesis of Fluid Retention and Formation of Ascites by Jens H Henriksen, Helmer Ring-Larsen, Niels Juel Christensen

“…Moreover, the level of plasma noradrenaline is inversely related to renal bloodflow and urinary excretion of sodium, and directly related to plasma renin, vasopressin and aldosterone. …”
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Kidney Diseases Classification using Hybrid Transfer-Learning DenseNet201-Based and Random Forest Classifier by Abdalbasit Mohammed Qadir, Dana Faiq Abd

“…This study focuses on kidney stones, cysts, and tumors, the three most common types of renal illness, using a dataset of 12,446 CT urogram and whole abdomen images, aiming to move toward an AI-based kidney disease diagnosis system while contributing to the wider field of artificial intelligence research. …”
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Genetic analysis of pathways regulated by the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor in Caenorhabditis elegans. by Tammie Bishop, Kah Weng Lau, Andrew C R Epstein, Stuart K Kim, Min Jiang, Delia O'Rourke, Christopher W Pugh, Jonathan M Gleadle, Martin S Taylor, Jonathan Hodgkin, Peter J Ratcliffe

“…Although studies of VHL-defective renal carcinoma cells suggest the existence of other VHL tumor suppressor pathways, dysregulation of the HIF transcriptional cascade has extensive effects that make it difficult to distinguish whether, and to what extent, observed abnormalities in these cells represent effects on pathways that are distinct from HIF. …”
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Giant Popliteal Artery Aneurysm: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Christos Verikokos, Georgios Karaolanis, Mikes Doulaptsis, Georgios Kouvelos, Aikaterini Kotzadimitriou, Viktoria-Varvara Palla, Christos Klonaris

“…The authors report the first ever case of a male diagnosed with chronic renal failure with giant popliteal artery aneurysm. …”
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Creatinine-Based Estimations of Kidney Function Are Unreliable in Obese Kidney Donors by Nidhi Aggarwal, Anna C. Porter, Ignatius Y. S. Tang, Bryan N. Becker, Sanjeev K. Akkina

“…We evaluated the performance of various estimating equations for creatinine clearance (Cockcroft-Gault), GFR (Modification of Diet in Renal Disease, Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration), and 24-hour urine collections for creatinine clearance in obese potential kidney donors. …”
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Deoxygenative photochemical alkylation of secondary amides enables a streamlined synthesis of substituted amines by Antonio Pulcinella, Stefano Bonciolini, Robin Stuhr, Damiano Diprima, Minh Thao Tran, Magnus Johansson, Axel Jacobi von Wangelin, Timothy Noël

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Serum 25(OH)D Levels Modify the Association between Triglyceride and IR: A Cross-Sectional Study by Rongpeng Gong, Xin Tang, Ziying Jiang, Gang Luo, Chaofan Dong, Xiuxia Han

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Treatment of Cytomegalovirus Infection with Cidofovir and CMV Immune Globulin in a Lung Transplant Recipient by Heinrike Wilkens, Martina Sester

“…Intravenous ganciclovir prophylaxis was delayed until day 12 due to acute postoperative renal failure and was accompanied by five doses of CMVIG (10 g). …”
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Comparing General versus Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Section in a Severely Pre-eclamptic Parturients by Omer Abdalbagi Mohamed Elawad, Omayma Hassan Elamin, Areeg Izzeldin Ahmed Yousif, Gamal Abdalla Mohamed Ejaimi

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Concurrent Stenoocclusive Disease of Intracranial and Extracranial Arteries in a Patient with Polycythemia Vera by Le H. Hua, Robert L. Dodd, Neil E. Schwartz

“…A 47-year-old woman with polycythemia vera had multiple transient ischemic attacks, and noninvasive vessel imaging revealed steno-occlusive disease of bilateral supraclinoid internal carotid arteries with moyamoya-type collaterals, proximal left subclavian artery, right vertebral artery origin, bilateral renal arteries, superior mesenteric artery, and right common iliac artery. …”
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Association between major depressive disorder or depressive symptoms and the risk of vascular complications among patients with type 2 diabetes, and the mediating role of metabolic... by Guochen Li, Yongfu Yu, Chunqing Lin, Shichen Zheng, Hong Tu, Wanghong Xu

“…A series of circulating metabolites involving lipid profile, renal function, and inflammation were observed to mediate the associations of MDD with vascular complications. …”
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Exploration of rituximab treatment strategies for membranous nephropathy adapted to the Chinese healthcare environment by Xiaolong Wang, Xueying Cao, Jie Wu, Shuang Liang, Jian Yang, Hong Wang

“…Statistical results revealed that the combined use of GCs and/or the IMS had no significant effect on renal remission (P = 0.439), but it accelerated the process of renal remission (P = 0.010). …”
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Role and prognostic value of growth differentiation factor 15 in patient of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: insights from the PURSUIT-HFpEF registry by Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Shungo Hikoso, Takahisa Yamada, Yoshio Yasumura, Akito Nakagawa, Toshihiro Takeda, Hirota Kida, Akihiro Sunaga, Tomoharu Dohi, Katsuki Okada, Daisaku Nakatani, Yasushi Matsumura, Yasushi Sakata, Shunsuke Tamaki, Takaharu Hayashi, Yoshiharu Higuchi, Masaharu Masuda, Mitsutoshi Asai, Toshiaki Mano, Hisakazu Fuji, Daisaku Masuda, Shizuya Yamashita, Masami Sairyo, Yusuke Nakagawa, Haruhiko Abe, Yasunori Ueda, Kunihiko Nagai, Masamichi Yano, Masami Nishino, Jun Tanouchi, Yoh Arita, Shinji Hasegawa, Takamaru Ishizu, Minoru Ichikawa, Yuzuru Takano, Eisai Rin, Tetsuya Watanabe, Shiro Hoshida, Masahiro Izumi, Hiroyoshi Yamamoto, Hiroyasu Kato, Kazuhiro Nakatani, Mayu Nishio, Keiji Hirooka, Takahiro Yoshimura, Akihiro Tani, Yasushi Okumoto, Yasunaka Makino, Katsuomi Iwakura, Yoshiyuki Kijima, Takashi Kitao, Masashi Fujita, Koichiro Harada, Masahiro Kumada, Osamu Nakagawa, Ryo Araki, Takayuki Yamada, Fusako Sera, Kei Nakamoto, Hidetaka Kioka, Tomohito Ohtani, Nobuyuki Ogasawara, Yukinori Shinoda, Koichi Tachibana, Yohei Sotomi, Taiki Sato, Yuji Yasuga, Toshinari Onishi, Kazunori Kashiwase, Ryu Shutta, Masahiro Seo, Yuki Matsuoka, Yasuhiro Akazawa, Daisuke Sakamoto

“…GDF15 significantly correlated with cardiac burden, anaemia, renal dysfunction and inflammation. Notably, poor nutritional status was significantly associated with GDF15. …”
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Research progress of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α and zinc in the mechanism of diabetic kidney disease by Wei Qin, Ping Nie, Xuejun Hui, Fei Chen, Xingbao Hu, Wenjiao Shi, Manyu Luo, Bing Li

“…This article provides a detailed review of the multiple roles of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α in the pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease, including: regulating angiogenesis, increasing the expression of erythropoietin, modulating oxidative stress through the PI3K/AKT and HIF-1α/HO-1 pathways, promoting inflammatory cell infiltration and the release of inflammatory factors to induce inflammatory responses, facilitating epithelial-mesenchymal transition, pathological angiogenesis, and promoting the release of fibrotic factors, ultimately leading to renal fibrosis. Furthermore, HIF-1α also participates in the occurrence and development of diabetic kidney disease through mechanisms such as regulating apoptosis, inducing mitochondrial autophagy, and vascular calcification. …”
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Fosfluconazole for Antifungal Prophylaxis in Very Low Birth Weight Infants by Daijiro Takahashi, Tomohiko Nakamura, Reiko Shigematsu, Miyu Matsui, Shunsuke Araki, Kazuyasu Kubo, Hiroshi Sato, Akira Shirahata

“…Regarding the liver and renal function, no statistically significant differences were observed before and at the end of fosfluconazole prophylaxis. …”
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Successful Management of Pheochromocytoma Detected in Pregnancy by Interval Adrenalectomy in a VHL Patient by V. T. S. Kaluarachchi, Uditha Bulugahapitiya, Maulee Arambewela, Sonali Gunathilake

“…She had an elevated 24 hour urinary normetanephrine level with ultrasonic evidence of a hyperechoic hypervascular well-defined right supra renal mass of 6 x 5 cm in size which was very suggestive of a pheochromocytoma. …”
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BlockingαVβ3 Integrin Ligand Occupancy Inhibits the Progression of Albuminuria in Diabetic Rats by Laura A. Maile, Katherine Gollahon, Christine Wai, Paul Dunbar, Walker Busby, David Clemmons

“…This study demonstrates that, when administered after establishment of early pathophysiologic changes in renal function, the anti-β3 antibody reversed the effects of diabetes normalizing albuminuria and profibrotic proteins in the kidney to the levels observed in nondiabetic control animals.…”
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An Overview of the Safety, Efficiency, and Signal Pathways of Stem Cell Therapy for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Qian Yang, Yiping Liu, Guangyong Chen, Wancong Zhang, Shijie Tang, Tianbiao Zhou

“…In animal models of SLE, MSC therapy also indicates that it could reduce anti-dsDNA, ANA, proteinuria, and serum creatinine and ameliorate renal pathology. There are no serious adverse events, treatment-related mortality, or tumor-related events in SLE patients after stem cell treatment. …”
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