Kidney fibrosis is an important factor for the progression of kidney diseases, e.g., diabetes mellitus induced kidney failure, glomerulosclerosis and nephritis resulting in chronic kidney disease or end-stage renal disease. Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) were implicated to suppress several of the above mentioned renal diseases. In this review art...

objective: the incidence and prevalence of kidney stone is increasing worldwide. after the first recurrence the risk of subsequent relapses is higher and the time period between relapses is shortened. urinary stones can be severely painful and make a huge economic burden. the stone disease may increase the vulnerability of patients to other diseases such as renal failure. medicinal herbs are ri...

Obesity-related glomerulopathy (ORG) is characterized by glomerulomegaly accompanied in many patients by lesions of focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis. Slowly increasing subnephrotic proteinuria is the commonest presentation of ORG. Occasionally, massive proteinuria (>5-10 g/day) is detected, but the typical findings of nephrotic syndrome are characteristically absent even in patients with ...

AIM The objective of the study was to obtain and compare two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) ultrasonographic images of the kidney in different disease conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, 11 clinical cases of different age groups of dogs suffering from kidney diseases were diagnosed by 2D and 3D ultrasonography at Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, Lala Lajpat Rai ...

Introduction: Burden of disease in case of renal disorders is a proverbial ice-berg where very little is manifested and a lot remains undiagnosed. The patients present to a nephrologist when it is too late. In this context epidemiological studies are important to understand and treat renal diseases. This study was undertaken over a period of ten years at a tertiary care centre at Allahabad (Ind...

background: chronic kidney disease is a progressive and irreversible loss of renal function. anemia is one of the main complications of end-stage renal disease (esrd) which is linked closely with other complications of the disease. the primary therapy for anemia in these patients is erythropoietin (epo). the goal of this study was to find the effect of vitamin d administration in addition to th...

conclusions the major finding of this study is that one unit increase in serum creatinine level suggests an increased risk of graft failure of up to four times. patients and methods this study was carried out at the department of nephrology, baqiyatallah hospital, baqiyatallah university, tehran, iran, between april 2005 and december 2008. during that time period, 461 patients who had undergone...

Molar pregnancy is an abnormal growth of trophoblastic tissue in the uterus. It can be either complete or partial. In moles, development fetus absent, while partial moles contain gestational sac. Choriocarcinoma a malignant form that arise from molar tissue. Hydatiform mole and choriocarcinoma are rare complicated diseases with numerous pathological conditions lead to significant kidney damage....

Background: Primary infection with BK virus (BKV) is occurred during childhood and usually asymptomatic, but after initial infection, BKV may persist lifelong in the kidney and genitourinary tract. Reactivation may occur in individuals with compromised immunity such as renal transplant recipients. Due to the role of BKV in BK virus-associated nephropathy (BKVAN) and po...