BACKGROUND The pathogenesis of falling is complex, and identification of risk factors may be essential for prevention. The relationship between renal disease and falls is unclear, and the goal of this study was to collect the available evidence and investigate the relationship between accidental falls and renal dysfunction. METHODS Electronic searches were performed in the MEDLINE, Scopus, Ov...

Adequate blood pressure control represents an important goal for all physicians due to the complications of hypertension which reduce patients' quality of life. A new interventional strategy to reduce blood pressure has been developed for patients with resistant hypertension. Catheter-based renal denervation has demonstrated excellent results in recent investigations associated with few side ef...

Thirty eight patients aged over 60 with end stage renal disease were treated by continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis for up to three years. Most of these patients, because of their age or coexisting diseases, had been considered to be unsuitable for haemodialysis by the criteria used before the advent of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in 1980. Actuarial patient survival at one a...

BACKGROUND Although the number of patients reaching end-stage kidney disease without a biopsy-proven diagnosis is increasing, the utility of renal biopsy is still an object of debate. We analyzed epidemiological data and the main indications for renal biopsy with a systematic, evidence-based review at current literature. SUMMARY There is a high discrepancy observed in biopsy rates and in the ...

Abstract Background: Renal transplantation (RT) is the transplantation of a kidney into a patient with end-stage renal disease and has become the treatment of choice for most patients with end-stage renal disease. The knowledge of renal vascular variations is of a great importance for the surgeons who approach the kidneys from the retroperitoneal o...

recessive forms (1–3), autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) with an incidence of 1 : 500 to 1 : 1000 is one of the commonest hereditary diseases (4). Some 5 million people worldwide are affected. In many countries ADPKD is the fourth most frequent cause of end-stage renal failure. About 85% of these diseases are caused by mutations in the PKD1 gene, the remaining 15% are due to ...

A post-transplant tumours are variable with large diverse in incidences and prognosis. Malignancies are considered to be the second most common cause of mortality among transplanted recipients after cardiovascular diseases [1]. In patients with the renal transplant; malignancies of the urinary tract is the second most common following skin tumours. The most affected organs are prostate, kidneys...

maintenance hemodialysis or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in Japan, DMN is the second most frequent cause of chronic renal failure, and the incidence apparently is increasing. The present rate of increase is 41396 for DMN compared with 154% due to chronic glomerulonephritis, from 1980 through 1987 (6). FurthermoTe, patients in end stage renal disease due to DMN have many complicatio...

Received October 23, 2002 Abstract The management of children with chronic renal failure is primarily the responsibility of paediatric nephrologists, but doctors at all levels of care can help to prevent its onset and delay its progression to endstage renal failure. In Hong Kong, chronic renal failure in children are caused by three main groups of diseases: chronic pyelonephritis (36%), chronic...