Malnutrition-Inflammation Score for risk stratification of patients with CKD: is it the promised gold standard? [0.03%]
营养炎症评分在CKD患者风险分层中的作用：是否是预测预后的金标准？
Mehdi Rambod,Csaba P Kovesdy,Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
Mehdi Rambod
Traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors including hyperlipidemia and obesity are paradoxically associated with improved survival in individuals with advanced chronic kidney disease. Such paradoxes underscore the important role of ma...
Oxalate in renal stone disease: the terminal metabolite that just won't go away [0.03%]
高草酸尿在肾结石病中的作用：这个末端代谢产物很难消除
Susan R Marengo,Andrea M P Romani
Susan R Marengo
The incidence of calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis in the US has been increasing throughout the past three decades. Biopsy studies show that both calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis and nephrocalcinosis probably occur by different mechanisms in d...
Claudio Ronco
Claudio Ronco
Safety and efficacy of influenza vaccination in renal transplant recipients [0.03%]
肾移植受者接种流感疫苗的安全性和有效性
Martin S Zand
Martin S Zand
This Practice Point commentary discusses Scharpé et al.'s single-center, nonrandomized, prospective trial of influenza vaccination in renal transplant recipients. In total, 165 transplant recipients and 41 healthy volunteers were vaccinate...
Cinacalcet should be used to treat secondary hyperparathyroidism in stage 3-4 chronic kidney disease [0.03%]
西那卡塞应被用来治疗3-4期慢性肾病患者的继发性甲旁亢
Angel L M de Francisco,Celestino Piñera,Rosa Palomar
Angel L M de Francisco
A pulmonary mass caused by Rhodococcus equi infection in a renal transplant recipient [0.03%]
移植术后因鸟胞内分枝杆菌感染导致的肺部肿物
Dorothee Speck,Irene Koneth,Markus Diethelm et al.
Dorothee Speck et al.
Background: A 62-year-old male kidney transplant recipient was admitted to hospital with a 14-day history of fever, hemoptysis and left-sided pleuritic chest pain. He had suffered malaise, weight loss, night sweats and ex...
Rituximab treatment for a patient with type I cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis [0.03%]
利妥昔单抗治疗1例I型冷球蛋白血症性肾小球肾炎患者
Sushma Pandrangi,Atul Singh,Donald E Wheeler et al.
Sushma Pandrangi et al.
Background: A 74-year-old woman with a history of type I cryoglobulinemia with glomerulonephritis that had been successfully treated with plasmapheresis and cyclophosphamide approximately 9 years earlier presented with he...
Kidney injury molecule-1 as a biomarker of acute kidney injury in renal transplant recipients [0.03%]
肾移植受者急性肾损伤的生物标志物肾脏损伤分子-1(KIM-1)的研究进展
Paul Perco,Rainer Oberbauer
Paul Perco
This Practice Point commentary discusses a study by Zhang and colleagues that investigated the usefulness of kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) for the early diagnosis of tubular injury on renal biopsy. The study found that KIM-1 protein expr...
Beth Piraino,Filitsa Bender
Beth Piraino
In this Practice Point commentary, we discuss Wiggins et al.'s systematic review of the treatment of peritonitis, a serious problem in peritoneal dialysis patients. Wiggins and co-workers reported that most antibiotic classes were similarly...