OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of the course of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) following the onset of end-stage lupus nephropathy, regarding clinical and serological manifestations, survival on dialysis, and renal transplant outcomes. METHODS A review of the pertinent literature, identified by a comprehensive Grateful Med search, was performed. RESULTS There is a tendency for decrease...

conclusions graft failure is more likely to occur in patients with higher serum creatinine levels. results there was a positive association between the serum creatinine level and graft failure (hr = 5.13, p < 0.001). a one unit increase in the serum creatinine level suggests an increased risk of graft failure of up to 5.13 times. the serum creatinine level significantly decreased over time (95%...

patients and methods in this multicenter cross sectional study, 397 consecutive patients on hemodialysis were evaluated by face-to-face interviews. rls was diagnosed using the international rls study group (irlss) criteria. in addition, three validated sleep disorder questionnaires (insomnia severity index, epworth sleepiness scale and pittsburgh sleep quality index) were completed by the patie...

Background Renal diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality in pediatric practice. Pediatric patients with renal disease, especially younger ones may present with nonspecific signs and symptoms unrelated to the urinary tract. Unexplained fever or failure to thrive may be the only manifestation. Most children with renal diseases in our hospital arrive very late either because of inadeq...

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a disorder characterized by the presence of the classic triad: microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and acute renal injury. HUS without acute renal failure can be confused with other hematologic diseases. An infantile HUS caused by a Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O145 strain carrying genotype stx2, ehxA, eae subtype β1 is herein ...

BACKGROUND Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is a reversible renal impairment that occurs in patients with acute liver failure and advanced liver cirrhosis. HRS is due to a renal vasoconstriction that results from extreme vasodilatation. It is therefore a functional disorder, not associated with structural kidney damage. On the other hand, end-stage liver diseases are often complicated by massive asci...

BACKGROUND Phenacetin was removed from the German market in 1986 and was replaced mainly in analgesic compounds by acetaminophen. Our objective was to examine the effect of this measure on the incidence of analgesic nephropathy in light of the changes in other end-stage renal diseases. METHODS We therefore compared the proportion of renal diseases in all patients starting dialysis treatment d...

Human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients are could be argued, however, that if patients with early at risk of developing several types of acute and chronic renal disease were found, perhaps some of them would renal diseases [1–3]. Among them, HIV-associated nehave had CD4 cell counts closer to normal. Because phropathy (HIVAN) has received significant attention the criteria for renal biop...

The prevalence of chronic renal diseases is increasing worldwide. There is a great need to identify therapies that arrest disease progression to end-stage renal failure. Inhibition of renin-angiotensin system both by ACE inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor antagonists is probably the best therapeutic option available. Several large, multicenter studies have indeed shown a significant reducti...

Aim: To find out incidence andrelationship betweenthyroid diseases with End Stage Renal Disease Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted in Punjab social security hospital Lahore, 45 patients of renal disease is participating along with 15 controls who has disease free stat, patients having diabetes mellitus and hypertension are included in study criteria and patients with acute renal...