Renal carcinoma.Reevaluation of prognostic factors

Risk Factors and Prognostic Factors of Acute Renal Failure in Patients Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit, Tehran-Iran

Acute renal failure (ARF) is defined as a sudden and continuous decrease of glomerular function associated with azotemia, and may be followed by decreased urinary output. There is a high incidence of ARF in ICU patients with a high mortality rate. Many factors can promote ARF development or influence its outcome. This study was done to assess the incidence, risk factors, outcome and treatme...

Prognostic factors in renal cell carcinoma

We studied 569 cases of renal cell carcinoma in the file5 of the Department of Pathology of the Nor~vegian Radium Hospital from 1964 to 1974. A nephrectorny had been perfornied in all cases. Clinical information on sex, age, survival time and metastases was traced. The histological slides were examined and turnour growth pattern, cell type, cell shape, nuclear atypia, abnormal nucleoli, nuclear...

Prognostic Factors in Renal Cell Carcinoma

Prognostic value of p53 in renal cell carcinoma

Background and Objectives: RCC is one of the most common genitourinary cancers. Accurate prediction of prognosis would be valuable for adjuvant trial design, counseling and effectively scheduling follow up visits. P53 is a tumor suppressor gene that expresses a protein that involved in both cell-cycle ar...

Selected prognostic factors of long-term renal graft function.

Kidney transplantation is a method of choice as a treatment for end-stage renal disease in indicated cases. However, the long graft survival represents only about 50% due to various types of rejection as a leading cause of graft loss in renal transplant recipients. The early dg. of rejection and especially acute rejection, it's adequate management, decreased risk for the future chronic rejectio...