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In this report, by the guidance of Turkish and international literature, the features of FMF disease in Turkish patients and the advances in related with thi disease Turkish Medicine were presented. FMF is an autosomal r...

A 31-year-old woman who had an uncomplicated cesarean section five days prior to admission presented with abdominal distention. Evaluation revealed acute renal failure and abdominal ascites. Diagnostic paracentesis showe...

Objective: BK virus nephropathy (BKVN) is an important cause of kidney transplant failure. In this study, we aimed to evaluate our center’s experience with BKVN in patients who had undergone renal transplantation and a...

Aminoglycosides are a group of antibiotics commonly used in the treatment of serious gram-negative bacterial infections. We report a case of acquired Bartter-like syndrome (ABLS) observed following gentamicin treatment f...

Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) infection is an uncommon manifestation in patients with chronic renal failure. In this article, we present a case of L. monocytogenes bacteremia in a patient undergoing hemodialy...

A review of the literature revealed secondary amyloidosis (AA) associated with lung cancer in only 14 cases. With respect to the histological subtype, 8 of the cases were squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).Herein, we describe...

Renal artery aneursyms are more commonly observed than previously thought. Although flank pain, hematuria and hypertension may be presenting symptoms, it may be asymptomatic and detected incidentally. In the present arti...

Wegener granulomatosis (WG) is a type of necrotising vasculitis that affects mainly the respiratory tract, paranasal sinuses and the kidneys. Urogenital involvement is rare; mainly affecting the prostate gland. Testicula...

Fibrillary glomerulonephritis (FG) is an immune-mediated type of glomerulonephritis characterized by Congo red-negative fibrillary electron-dense deposits. The incidence of FG is less than 1% in adults and it is very rar...

Renal artery disease is frequently encountered as an incidental finding in peripheral vascular disease. In this case report, a 67- year-old lady with peripheral vascular and renal artery lesions identified at a time befo...

The Enterobacter cloacae complex, a member of the genus Enterobacter, consists of a group of bacteria that are responsible for serious infections in human beings. A recently identified member of the group, Enterobacter l...

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....

Lupus nephritis is an infl ammation of the kidney caused by systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Lupus nephritis is a frequent complication of SLE that increases mortality and morbidity. Minimal glomerular lesions, mesang...

Hydatid cyst (CH), which is quite common in the world, mostly transmitted by dog faeces, is a parasitic disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus. CH often infects the liver and lungs. During the clinical course, renal i...

Primary renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common kidney cancer. In renal transplant patients, RCC more commonly arises in the native kidneys, whereas allograft involvement has seen rarely. A 65-year-old man develope...

The infantile form of primary hyperoxaluria is a very rare disease and often presents as a lifethreatening condition because of rapid progression to end-stage renal disease and systemic oxalosis. We described two infants...

New direct acting antiviral agents are quite effective in treating hepatitis-C virus infection (HCV). Treating HCV that occurs or relapses after kidney transplantation necessitates a heedful approach for selecting the ...

In nephrology practice, the association of renal failure and deafness immediately brings to mind the Alport syndrome. However, in the differential diagnosis of deafness and renal failure a great number of syndromes rangi...

OBJECTIVE: There is no consensus on superiority of peritoneal dialysis catheter placement methods to each other in the literature.Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine whether there were differences in compli...

Arteriovenous fistula operations are the most frequent procedures to enhance hemodialysis and to increase quality of life in chronic renal failure. The most frequent late period complication due to fistula is aneurysm. I...

Uremic pruritus is a common complication of chronic renal failure. It affects approximately half of patients undergoing dialysis treatment. Even if the pruritus is not hazardous alone, it causes physical and mental fatig...

Glomerular tip lesion is frequently used to defi ne a histological variant of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Most patients with glomerular tip lesion have nephrotic syndrome and show a good response to steroid treat...

C1q nephropathy is a rare cause of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome seen in children and young adults. Mesangial proliferation with deposition of C1q in the mesangium on immunofluorescence examination is the main pathologic...

C1q nephropathy is a rare cause of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome seen in children and young adults. Mesangial proliferation with deposition of C1q in the mesangium on immunofluorescence examination is the main pathologic...