BACKGROUND/AIMS The present study aimed to determine the role of cystatin C as a prognostic factor for acute kidney injury and survival in cirrhotic patients. METHODS The study investigated 53 liver cirrhosis patients. The renal function was evaluated by serum creatinine, serum and urine cystatin C, and 24-hour creatinine clearance on admission. Acute kidney injury was defined as a serum crea...

chronic kidney disease (ckd) is probably the most important problem of public health in advanced countries. kidneys are often damaged as a result of high blood pressure. one of our main concerns in patients with hypertension is early detection of kidney disorders. the routine biomarkers such as creatinine have some limitation for this purpose, however recent studies suggest plasma ngal to be a ...

Kidney failure is an important prognostic factor in patients with heart failure. Renal function is usually evaluated by measuring the serum creatinine level. However, a normal creatinine level can mask established kidney failure. We investigated the prognostic significance of the estimated creatinine clearance rate (Cockcroft formula) in 235 patients with heart failure and a normal serum creati...

abstract background: renal insufficiency is a potential complication after infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair and is a significant risk factor for postoperative mortality and morbidity. the aim of this study was to analyze the effect of this risk factor, before and during operation. methods: in this prospective study, between 2003 and 2006, 45 patients underwent repair of an infrarenal...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in patients with kidney failure. Moreover, the presence of impaired renal function is an important prognostic factor in patients with heart disease, and is a determinant of outcome during follow-up. The main aim was to investigate the relationship between kidney failure at admission and one-year mortality in patients ...

The aim of the study was to investigate the extent and time course of aminoglycoside (AG)-induced serum creatinine elevation in patients with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). This prospective study included patients with and without DM2 who were administered AG parenterally. The outcome of interest was the extent and time course of serum creatinine elevation suggestive of renal injur...

In this study, the contrast-induced-nephropathy (CIN) of vascular patients who had undergone angiography was quantitatively evaluated using a semi-empirical model. The model compiled six essential serum readings and biological data from 70 patients in order to develop a 1st-order nonlinear equation with 16 defined terms. The expectation value of the model was used to predict the serum creatinin...

in this study 71 head of conceiving ewe and their progeny (91 head) from the flock of lori-bakhtiari sheep (360 head), in sholi station were randomly selected to determine the relationship between the immunoglobulin (igg) concentration in the ewe's serum and colostrum, and lamb's serum. ewe blood sample, colostrum of ewe and blood of the lamb was taken 2 weeks before parturition, 1 to 8 hours a...

Introduction: Polyuria and hypernatremia are common problems during the pretransplant care of brain-dead donors. They have not only important role in hemodynamic stability, but also may influence organ transplantation outcomes. The influence of donor hypernatremia in liver transplantation was reported. This study aimed to determine these effects on kidney allograft. Materials and Methods: We re...