A 3-year-old girl with clinical features of atypical HUS (complement Factor I mutation inherited from an asymptomatic mother and Factor H autoantibodies) was treated with plasma exchange, pr...
Soluble Klotho (sKl), the free form of membrane-bound Klotho predominantly expressed in the kidney, is detectable in serum and may have multiple pleiotropic effects. Patients with end-stage ...
This study aimed to assess outcomes of delivery hospitalizations, including acute kidney injury (AKI), obstetric and fetal events, and resource utilization among pregnant women with kidney t...
The single-nucleotide polymorphism CYP3A5 rs776746 is related to a reduction in the metabolizing activity of the CYP3A5 enzyme. Persons carrying at least one copy of the wild-type allele, de...
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are increasingly used to treat various malignancies but their application in kidney transplant patients is complicated by high allograft rejection rates. Immune...
Nephrology offers the unique opportunity to directly link patients to providers, allowing the study of patient outcomes at the provider level. The purpose of this analysis was to determine w...
Little is known of the prevalence or associated factors of cognitive impairment in people with kidney failure. Assessment of cognition is necessary to inform comprehension of healthcare info...
Antiviral prophylaxis is recommended in cytomegalovirus (CMV)-seropositive kidney transplant (KT) recipients receiving antithymocyte globulin (ATG) as induction. An alternative strategy of p...
Hemothorax (HT) is a life-threatening condition, mainly iatrogenic and poorly explored in Liver Transplantation (LT) recipients. The aim of this study is to report and analyze for the first ...
We analyzed the efficacy and safety of an everolimus with reduced-exposure calcineurin inhibitor (EVR+rCNI) versus mycophenolic acid with standard-exposure CNI (MPA+sCNI) regimen in Asian pa...
The aim of this study was to investigate allograft outcomes when relatively small kidneys were donated to patients with pre-transplant diabetes mellitus (DM).From January 2010 to December 20...
Acute kidney injury (AKI), commonly caused by ischemia, sepsis, or nephrotoxic insult, is associated with increased mortality and a heightened risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD). AKI resul...
Tacrolimus is a first-line immunosuppressive therapy to prevent rejection and graft failure in kidney transplant recipients. Once-daily extended-release tacrolimus tablets (LCPT) have been ...
Solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of morbidity and mortality from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but limited vaccine access and vaccine hesitancy can complicate e...
The all consequences of tobacco smoking on the lungs and kidney function in kidney transplant recipients are unknown. We investigate the impact of tobacco smoking on lung and kidney function...
Patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) and type 2 diabetes are at risk of kidney, limb, and ophthalmic complications. We evaluated the rate of these complications and death in ...
We compared protection of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and azathioprine (AZA) against acute cellular rejection (ACR) and chronic allograft nephropathy (CAN) in kidney transplant recipients on...
The increase in the number of patients on the kidney transplant waiting list has led to an attempt to increase the number of potential donors by incorporating candidates that previously woul...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed a plan for the elimination of viral hepatitis with a goal of reducing new hepatitis infections by 30% and 90% in 2020 and 2030, and associate...
HRQOL in transplant candidates and recipients who are also infected with HIV and are awaiting a kidney, or have received one from a HIV-positive donor, has not been previously investigated.T...
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