Chronic renal failure (CRF) is defined as a progressive and persistent deterioration in renal function with serum creatinine consistently greater than 175μmol (Adelakun and Akinsola, 1988). It occurs as the termination of many chronic renal diseases, and is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in Africa (Kadiri, 2001). End stage renal failure may be defined as creatinine clearance of l...

background: it has been well documented that left ventricular hypertrophy (lvh) is an independent factor for cardiac death in children. the epidemiologic information reveals that there is a very high prevalence of lvh in children with chronic renal failure (crf). the purpose of this study was to evaluate the existence of left ventricular hypertrophy, its severity and other cardiac abnormalities...

BACKGROUND Pelvic organ prolapse is a multidimensional phenomenon. The manifestations of renal involvement following pelvic organ prolapse ranges from acute to chronic renal failure and may also lead to end stage renal failure. Prolonged duration and its severity in pelvic organ prolapse are responsible for renal impairment. OBJECTIVES This study will find out the incidence of renal impairmen...

Patients with end-stage liver disease with renal failure can be considered for simultaneous liver kidney transplantation. There are, however, no clear guidelines as to the management of the well-compensated cirrhotic patient with end-stage renal disease. We present the case of a patient with cirrhosis who decompensated after renal transplantation. With no indication for liver transplantation, c...

BACKGROUND Preventive and therapeutic options for renal failure are still limited. Gene expression profile analysis is powerful in the identification of biological differences between end stage renal failure patients and healthy controls. Previous studies mainly used variance/regression analysis without considering various biological, environmental factors. The purpose of this study is to inves...

conclusions literature search revealed an increased prevalence of hypothyroidism with secondary hpth from renal failure. although there is increased prevalence of hypothyroid state in secondary hpth from renal failure, the association appears much weaker in primary hpth and again no conclusive pathological relation has been identified between the two endocrine glands. a closer look and perhaps ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is often complicated with advanced heart failure because of not only renal congestion and decreased renal perfusion but also prolonged use of diuretics at higher doses, which sometimes results in hyponatremia. Preoperative CKD is known to be associated with poor prognosis after heart transplantation (HTx). We experienced a stage D heart failure patient with CKD and ...

IgA nephropathy usually presents as asymptomatic microscopic hematuria or proteinuria or episodic gross hematuria after upper respiratory infection. It is an uncommon cause of end-stage renal failure in childhood. Pulmonary hemorrhage associated with IgA nephropathy is an unusual life-threatening manifestation in pediatric patients and is usually treated with aggressive immunosuppression. Pulmo...