Is peritoneal dialysis a suitable renal replacement therapy in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease? [0.03%]
遗传性多囊肾病患者可以使用腹膜透析吗？
Eric Goffin,Yves Pirson
Eric Goffin
This commentary discusses a study reported by Kumar et al. that compared outcomes of 56 patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) started on peritoneal dialysis with those of a control group of nondiabetic patients ...
Can cardiac troponin T level be used to predict survival of patients awaiting renal transplantation? [0.03%]
心脏肌钙蛋白T水平可否用于预测肾移植等待者生存率？
Martha Pavlakis
Martha Pavlakis
Cardiac troponin T (cTnT) levels are often elevated in chronic kidney disease and correlate with survival of patients receiving dialysis. This commentary discusses a recent paper by Hickson et al. that investigated whether a single cTnT mea...
David J Cohen
David J Cohen
Medical tourism is increasing owing to high costs of care, lack of availability or long waits for procedures, and improvements in technology and standards of care in many countries. Transplant tourism is one example of medical tourism that ...
Reassuring results with regard to the effect of donor nephrectomy on cardiovascular outcomes [0.03%]
关于供肾切除对心血管结果影响的令人放心的研究结果
Richard Haynes,Martin J Landray,Christopher G Winearls
Richard Haynes
This article discusses the conclusions of a retrospective cohort study reported by Garg et al. on behalf of the Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes Research (DONOR) Network. This study compared the incidence of cardiovascular events in a cohort of k...
Yolanda E Bogaert,Stuart Linas
Yolanda E Bogaert
The rapid rise in the incidence and prevalence of obesity and the concomitant increase in the incidence and prevalence of hypertension have fueled investigation into the role of obesity in the pathogenesis of hypertension. The genetic backg...
Why do patients on peritoneal dialysis have low blood levels of protein-bound solutes? [0.03%]
腹膜透析患者结合蛋白分子血浓度低的原因是什么？
Raymond Vanholder,Natalie Meert,Wim Van Biesen et al.
Raymond Vanholder et al.
Eberhard Ritz,Andrew Remppis
Eberhard Ritz
Acute kidney injury caused by intravascular hemolysis after mechanical thrombectomy [0.03%]
机械取栓后血管内溶血引起的急性肾损伤
Ramnath Dukkipati,Eric H Yang,Sharon Adler et al.
Ramnath Dukkipati et al.
Background: A 43-year-old African-American female (gravida 5 para 0) with an 8-week intrauterine pregnancy presented to the emergency room with crampy abdominal pain, shortness of breath, and shoulder pain. She had normal...
Hans-Joachim Anders
Hans-Joachim Anders
Biomarkers that reliably identify or even predict disease manifestations in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are needed. In a recent issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Wu and colleagues reported on the pr...
Juan Carlos Q Velez
Juan Carlos Q Velez
Evidence suggests that virtually every organ system in the human body possesses a local renin-angiotensin system (RAS). These local systems seem to be independently regulated and compartmentalized from the plasma circulation, perhaps with t...