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Nephrotic syndrome can have overlapping features across multiple diseases, making diagnosis difficult without tissue confirmation. We describe a 30-year-old uninsured Hispanic woman with type 1 diabetes, hypertension, an...

Percutaneous renal biopsy is an important method to establish a pathological diagnosis, to monitor the disease progression and to assess the response to therapy in children. The aim of this retrospective study was to ana...

Behcet's disease (BD) is a systemic chronic vasculitis of unknown aetiology characterised by mainly oro-genital ulcers. Renal involvement in BD is seen much less frequently than one would expect in a systemic vasculitis....

OBJECTIVE: Pregnancy in women of reproductive age on dialysis is rare and has a poor outcome. Several studies published in the 1990s revealed pregnancy rates of 0.3 to 0.5 per 100 patient-years, but not all pregnancies...

Nodular glomerulosclerosis, although once identified as a histopathological diagnosis identical with diabetes mellitus (DM), can be seen in many diseases like membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, amyloidosis, fibril...

Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is an inflammatory autosomal recessive disease characterized by serosal and synovial involvement. Although secondary amyloidosis is the most common of the renal diseases observed with F...

Unexplained coagulopathy with persistent anemia presents a significant diagnostic challenge and requires a broad differential. Isolated coagulation factor deficiencies are uncommon and described only sporadically 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...

AIM: Elderly patients with renal disease have recently attracted increased attention. There has also been an increase in renal biopsies in these patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of the ren...

Objectives. Patients diagnosed with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) often experience poor outcomes due to the development of heart failure (HF). Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) has been found to be correlated...

Behcet’s disease (BD) is an inflammatory multisystemic disease characterized by perivascular inflammation and generally presents with recurrent oral and genital ulcers and uveitis. It is known that BD may also involve ...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), one of the most common rheumatic diseases of childhood, is characterized by chronic synovitis and other organ dysfunctions. The characteristic renal lesion in JIA is amyloidosis, usua...

This study is performed in Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty Haemodialysis Unit. 172 patients (mean age 45 years; 109 males, 63 females) regularly dialysed for at least longer than 3 months in our unit betw...

OBJECTIVE: Recently, urinary angiotensinogen (AGT) is used frequently as a marker of intrarenal renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) activity. In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between urinar...

Materias / palabras clave: adult oncology, amyloidosis, basic and translational research, genetics, omics and tissue regeneration, health promotion and preventive cardiology; Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases ...