Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) is a rare disease that involves non-specific inflammation and fibrosis surrounding the aorta. As a result, RPF is a challenging diagnosis to make; patients often seek medical attention after complications arise, such as nephrotic syndrome. The patient in our case report initially complained of flank pain. Laboratory evaluation revealed acute renal failu...

Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) is an uncommon disorder that may cause ureteric obstruction with renal damage. Pergolide, a dopaminergic agonist used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, has rarely been related to the development of RPF. We report on a 78-year-old woman with Parkinson's disease who presented with hydroureteronephrosis and developed RPF and serosal fibrosis during treatment w...

In actinobacteria, resuscitation promoting factor (Rpf) proteins have been described as having the ability to increase the viable count of dormant cultures and stimulate growth of vegetative cells through lag phase reduction. Recently, it was suggested that proteins Lmo0186 and Lmo2522 of Listeria monocytogenes are equivalent to Rpf proteins based on their genomic context and conserved domain a...

Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) is a relatively rare disease which shows a periaortic mass in the retroperitoneal area and predisposes to an obstructive uropathy. We report a case of idiopathic RPF occurring in a patient who was suspected of impending rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm. A 60-year-old male, with a 2-week history of abdominal pain, was transferred for evaluation of the periaorti...

Intraperitoneal antibiotics are used to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa peritonitis, a serious complication of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. However, P. aeruginosa killing is often inefficient despite low MBCs. Broth dilution MIC/MBC and time kill curves of tobramycin, amikacin, netilmicin, azlocillin, piperacillin, ceftazidime, cefsulodin, and ciprofloxacin were determined in periton...

Power plant generators are important components of an electrical energy system. They should be constantly monitored and protected in order to maintain the quality reliability power supply. Otherwise generator may operate incorrectly resulting poor instability during events like faults, equipment failure, reverse flow(RPF) etc., presence large distributed resources is major cause flow low loads/...

We measured cardiac output (CO), renal blood flow (RBF), renal plasma flow (RPF), and afferent arteriolar diameter by the microsphere method, and inulin clearance (GFR) simultaneously in awake rats given an infusion of exogenous angiotensin II (100 ng/min per kg). Angiotensin II did not affect the CO, whereas both RBF and RPF decreased significantly in rats infused with angiotensin II (RBF, 2.8...

Isolated kidney preparations (IPK) from male Sprague Dawley rats perfused at constant pressure were used to evaluate the effect of angiotensin II (AII) and platelet-activating factor (PAF) on renal function and urinary protein excretion. Compared with basal, intrarenal infusion of AII at 8 ng/min caused a progressive increase in protein excretion (11 +/- 6 versus 73 +/- 21 micrograms/min) in pa...

INTRODUCTION Retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF) is a rare condition characterized by the presence of inflammatory and fibrous retroperitoneal tissue that often encases the ureters or abdominal organs. This study describes the clinical characteristics, diagnostic methods, and treatments and their effects on renal function. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients diagnosed with RP...

METHODS: All patient undergoing sternal RPF from 2005–2015 were identified. Demographic, perioperative information, and complication rates were reviewed. Primary RPF cases were classified as treatment group, those done concurrently with other procedures as prophylactic group. Complication rates were compared between two groups using chi-square test. A logistic regression analysis was performed ...