background and objective: the anemia of esrd is a complex disorder, associated with serious complications, which increases patients’ mortality and morbidity. treatment of this anemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (rh-epo) is well established. this clinical trial study was conducted within 20 months, from may 2005 to december 2006, in order to evaluate the efficacy of pdpoetin (rh-epo al...

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background this retrospective study aimed to determine the epidemiologic characteristics and risk factors of chronic kidney diseases (ckd) in patients < 18 years old at a single referral center. materials and methods in a hospital-based case control study, 66 ckd patients less than 18 years old were compared to 81 control patients (also under 18) without ckd. a patient was defined as a ckd case...

world kidney day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood. chronic kidney disease (ckd) in childhood differs from that in adults, as the largest diagnostic group among children includes congenital anomalies and inherited disorders, with glomerulopathies and kidney disease in the setting of diabetes being relativ...

background chronic kidney disease (ckd) is a prevalent, progressive, and treatable disease. however, lack of enough data about its prevalence in iran is a major obstacle for its early detection. in order to determine the prevalence of the disease in the country, it is necessary to conduct epidemiologic studies especially on populations with ethnic diversity; hence, this study aimed at determini...

world kidney day (wkd) is a joint initiative of the international society of nephrology (isn) and the international federation of kidney foundations (ifkf). seven years on from the first campaign, world kidney day (wkd) has turned into a global phenomenon. on march 13, 2014, medical professionals, government officials, the general public, celebrities and patients took action locally. in 2014, t...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been associated with increased mortality and morbidity in COVID-19 patients.[1–3][1] It is hypothesised to be worse patients underlying chronic disease (CKD). The aetiology of AKI these multifactorial, direct cytopathic effects on

μalakoplakia is a rare inflammatory condition of the urogenital tract. the most frequently affected organ is urinary bladder. this condition has features of a granulomatous inflammation, the pathogenesis of which is not well understood. in this study, we presented a case of urinary bladder malakoplakia associated with advanced obstructive uropathy and renal failure.

SARS-CoV-2, the agent of COVID-19 disease, mainly affects respiratory tract. The severity disease ranges from subclinical infections to diseases with severe symptoms that require hospitalization. There are a number comorbid factors important in treatment and follow-up. It has been found most patients have an underlying advanced age, obesity, cardiovascular liver kidney or malignancy.

introduction: autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (adpkd) is one of the most common genetic kidney disorders with the incidence of 1 in 1,000 births. adpkd is genetically heterogeneous with two genes identified: pkd1 (16p13.3, 46 exons) and pkd2 (4q21, 15 exons). eighty five percent of the patients with adpkd have at least one mutation in the pkd1 gene. genetic studies have demonstrate...