Currently, the SARS-CoV-2 promptly spread across China and around the world. However, there are controversies about whether preexisting chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney injury c...
Opioids and NSAIDs are the most commonly used analgesics for managing pain in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), but these therapies come with important risks. “NSAIDs have direct...
We aimed to investigate the effects of glomerular C3 deposition on clinical, histopathological features, and outcomes of patients with primary membranous nephropathy (MN).A total of 261 pati...
Several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have demonstrated the cardiometabolic effects of aerobic exercise in the general population and in patients with cardiovascular diseases. However...
To address the prognostic value of combining tubular basement membrane (TBM) and glomerular basement membrane (GBM) thickness in diabetic nephropathy (DN).This retrospective study enrolled 1...
COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease that has easily spread worldwide. Outpatient maintenance hemodialysis seems to entail an increased risk of contagion, and previous reports inform of i...
A meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the association of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney injury (AKI) with the clinical prognosis of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 ...
Renal fibrosis is a final common manifestation of CKD resulting in progressive loss of kidney function. The activation of SMAD3 and STAT3 played central roles in the pathogenesis of renal fi...
Discoidin domain receptor 1 (DDR1) is a receptor tyrosine kinase that is activated by collagens that is involved in the pathogenesis of fibrotic disorders. Interestingly, de novo production ...
Lindera aggregata is a main Chinese herb of ancient prescriptions Suoquan pill applied for treating the chronic kidney disease (CKD). A large number of application histories of Lindera aggre...
Erectile dysfunction (ED) has a lower prevalence in renal transplant recipients (RTRs) compared to dialysis patients. Despite this observation, the effect of renal transplantation (RT) on er...
Sensory and motor nerve deficits are prevalent in older adults and are associated with loss of functional independence. We hypothesize that chronic kidney disease predisposes to worsening se...
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected nephrology. Firstly, dialysis patients appear to be at increased risk for infection due to viral transmission next to an enhanced risk for mortalit...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global health problem with a prevalence of 10-15%. Progressive fibrosis of the renal tissue is a main feature of CKD, but current treatment strategies are r...
The adaptive humoral immune response following clinical infection with extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacterales (EPE) has not been thoroughly investigated. The aim ...
Heart rate variability (HRV) means the variation in time of beat-to-beat interval. Lower HRV has been shown to be related with death and cardiovascular events in previous studies. In the las...
Amyloid A nephropathy of FMF usually progresses over many years to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). We aim to describe an acute condition, termed here 'amyloid storm', typically manifesting w...
A system for sorbent-assisted peritoneal dialysis (SAPD) has been developed that continuously recirculates dialysate via a tidal mode using a single-lumen peritoneal catheter with the regene...
Outcome data following transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) with the MITRACLIP® device are scarce outside the pivotal randomized controlled trials.The Nationwide Readmission Data base (...
Kidney Disease Education (KDE) has been shown to improve informed dialysis selection and home dialysis use, two long-held but underachieved goals of US nephrology community. In 2010, the Cen...
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