background few studies have focused on patients’ characteristics that affects acute kidney injury (aki) after total knee replacement surgery (tkr). objectives the primary objective of this retrospective study was to identify patients’ characteristics associated with aki after tkr. patients and methods between january 2008 and december 2009, 659 patients with a mean age of 67.1 years (range, 39-...

congenital diaphragmatic hernia (cdh) is a rare anomaly with a reported incidence of 1 in 16,000 populations. it may be associated with herniation of stomach, intestinal loops, spleen, and kidney through a chest wall defect. we report a case of a 1 year old male child who presented with recurrent fever, occasional chills and rigor of 4 months duration. left kidney was non visualised on ultrasou...

background bone morphogenetic protein 7 (bmp7) has been suggested to play a protective role against kidney injury in chronic kidney disease. objectives to identify the critical molecular regulators in the early stage of diabetic nephropathy, we studied the expression of bmp7 and 2 important kidney-specific markers, podocin and tamm–horsfall protein (thp). materials and methods a diabetic nephro...

background nephrolithiasis in children is an important cause of morbidity worldwide. the current retrospective study aims at identifying epidemiological characteristics and risk factors of nephrolithiasis among children under 18 years old attending at nephrology clinic of amir kabir hospital of arak, iran, in 2014. methods the current case-control study was conducted among 166 children in 2 equ...

in the september and november 2006 issues of nature clinical practice nephrology , two articles regarding living unrelated kidney donor transplantation alluded to the practices in iran. having served in the planning, supervision and implementation of various aspects of health care in iran, including organ transplantation (anh), and as transplant nephrologists who have actively participated in t...

background & aim: mammea africana sabine (guttiferae) stembark commonly used traditionally to treat various diseases and ailments was evaluated for nephroprotective activity against paracetamol – induced kidney injury in rats to confirm its use in the treatment of kidney diseases. experimental:  the nephroprotective effect of the extract was evaluated by the determination of some kidney fun...

background: protective effect of emblica against radiation and cadmium induced biochemical changes in mouse kidney has been studied. materials and methods: adult male mice were divided into seven groups: i (shamirradiated), ii (cadmium chloride), iii (irradiated with 2 gy gamma rays), iv (radiation and cadmium chloride), v (cadmium chloride and emblica), vi (radiation and emblica), vii (radiati...

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