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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease with a high incidence of renal involvement during its course contributing to disease morbidity and mortality. All compartments of the kidney may be affe...

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a prevalent disease that shows all the characteristics of an autoimmune pathology. The developments in the pathogenic factors in SLE provide new insights to the treatment of SLE and ...

Reactive oxygen particles can increase tissue injury in the pathogenesis of human diseases. However, some antioxidants are used for therapeutic approach. In this review, the possible roles of reactive oxygen particles ...

Sepsis is a common and important cause of mortality in critically ill patients. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the most important factors determining morbidity and mortality in this clinical picture. Recent studies ...

To investigate the role and importance of iinmun system on the pathogenesis of uncomplicated RUTIs, 24 children with uncomplicated RUTIs (21 girls, 3 beys; age 5.81.0 years) were studied in the present study. Absolute ...

Acute renal failure is defined as the abrupt decline in glomeruler filtration rate resulting from ischemic or toxic injury and observed mostly in the critical care units. The most important factors playing role in the ...

The prevalence of co-morbid gastrointestinal symptoms is high in dialysis patients, while abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, anorexia and abdominal bloating are the second-most common group of symptoms following dys...

OBJECTIVE: Oxidative stress (OS) is described as the imbalance of oxidative and anti-oxidative systems towards oxidants and plays a role in the pathogenesis of GN. In many studies, ischemiamodified albumin (IMA) is ident...

The distribution of the types of primary glomerulonephritis (GN) varies from one center to another depending on ethnicity, geographical region and the indication for biopsy. It was observed that the most frequent diagnos...

OBJECTIVE: Atherosclerotic vascular disease (AVD) is the most frequent complication seen in hemodialysis (HD) patients. Evidence suggests that inflammation may play a role in the pathogenesis and progression of atheroscl...

Insulin resistance and sympathetic activation are shown to play a role in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension. The role of sympathetic activation in essential hypertension has been documented by a variety of tec...

Abstract Tritrichomonas foetus is a parasite that has been definitively identified as an agent of trichomonosis, a disease characterized by chronic diarrhea. T. foetus colonizes portions of the feline large intestine, an...