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The global burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is rapidly increasing with a projection of becoming the 5th most common cause of years of life lost globally by 2040. Aggravatingly, CKD is a major cause of catastrophic ...

Objective: The incidence of chronic kidney diseases increases in older individuals, like all other chronic diseases. Renal biopsy provides important guidance in the diagnosis of many kidney diseases. The impact of biopsy...

There may be different clinical presentations of kidney involvement in the course of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, within a spectrum of acute kidney injury, generally due to hemolysis, to chronic kidney disease. H...

Recurrence of glomerulonephritis (GN) is considered an important cause of allograft failure in kidney transplant recipients. It can present after transplantation with complications that are difficult to manage. In this c...

Adult polycystic kidney disease is transmitted in autosomal dominant pattern with a reported incidence of 1 in 1000 to 1 in 5000 cases. Horseshoe kidney is a renal fusion anomaly with an incidence of 1 in 400 to 1 in 180...

Rhabdomyolysis develops due to skeletal muscle cell damage. One of the most important complications of rhabdomyolysis is acute kidney injury. Herein, we present a case found to have normal renal function at first hospita...

Abstract Introduction There have been increasing concerns about the possible high prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) among returnee Nepalese migrant workers from the Gulf countries and Malaysia. This population-b...

Acute renal impairment due to rhabdomyolysis in patients with hypothyroidism is quite rare. We describe a case of acute kidney injury due to hypothyroidism-induced rhabdomyolysis in a 47-year-old man who was under levoth...

Chronic kidney disease has become a global pandemic, with its burden felt mostly in developing countries where there is a deficiency or outright lack of policy and funding for chronic kidney disease prevention and treatm...

ObjectiveThis study aimed to analyze the factors associated with infection after kidney transplantation and to explore the predictive value of Th17/Treg cells and cytokine levels for infection.MethodsA retrospective anal...

ObjectiveRegarding the exact association between hypothyroidism, levothyroxine replacement and kidney dysfunction, there is a lack of study to summarize the previous evidence. The aim of this study is to explore these re...

World Kidney Day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in childhood differs from that in adults, as the...

Kidney disease is a global public health problem, affecting over 750 million persons worldwide. The burden of kidney disease varies substantially across the world, as does its detection and treatment. In many settings, r...

Abstract Purpose The past two decades witnessed increased use of risk-adjusted standardized measures such as standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) and standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) in institutional comparisons betw...

Objective: Kidney donation from a relative is an ideal option for transplantation that would improve the recipients’ quality of life. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the challenges in the donation process ...

Chronic diseases are currently the major cause of death in all over the world. Among chronic diseases, the prevalence and incidence of chronic kidney disease are progressively increasing and assuming a novel epidemic. It...

OBJECTIVES: Kidney biopsy is a valuable tool for both diagnosis and to guide treatment of renal diseases. In this report, we aimed both clinical and pathological evaluation of the kidney biopsies in our institution. MA...

Organ shortage is a significant problem for patients with end-stage renal disease seeking kidney transplantation despite efforts for increasing living kidney donation and strategies such as paired exchange. The donor poo...

OBJECTIVE: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is the most common hereditary kidney disease. We presented the ADPKD patients who were not undergoing replacement therapy. MATERIAL and METHODS: Accordin...

OBJECTIVES: Although bowel obstruction due to encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is a rare complication following kidney transplantation, all our patients were previous peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. The aim of...

Today, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a world-wide public health problem. Losing kidney function and occurance of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are inevitablely the main clinical outcomes. Increasing evidence suggested t...

Patients with chronic kidney disease may show altered pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic responses to many drugs in comparison to patients with normal renal function. Therefore, effective and safe drug usage is difficu...

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of spironolactone on diastolic heart functions in patients with chronic kidney disease by tissue Doppler echocardiography. MATERIAL and METHODS: Twenty-four pat...

ObjectivesTo conduct a scoping review mapping the extent, nature, and consistency of available evidence regarding the effects of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors on kidney function, proteinuria, kidney...