Skip to main content

Articles

Page 20 of 91

  1. Nutcracker syndrome (NCS) is characterized by compression of the left renal vein (LRV) between the aorta and the superior mesenteric artery. While rare, NCS was reported to be accompanied by double inferior ve...

    Authors: Ayumi Omori, Kan Katayama, Ryosuke Saiki, Satoru Masui, Kei Suzuki, Yoshinori Kanii, Kayo Tsujimoto, Shiro Nakamori, Tairo Kurita, Tomohiro Murata, Takahiro Inoue and Kaoru Dohi
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:65
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  2. Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a type of progressive kidney disease affecting approximately 40% of patients with diabetes. Current DN diagnostic criteria predominantly rely on albuminuria and serum creatinine (s...

    Authors: Hamad Ali, Mohamed Abu-Farha, Eman Alshawaf, Sriraman Devarajan, Yousif Bahbahani, Irina Al-Khairi, Preethi Cherian, Zahra Alsairafi, Vidya Vijayan, Fahd Al-Mulla, Abdulnabi Al Attar and Jehad Abubaker
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:64
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Hospitalized patients with SARS-CoV2 develop acute kidney injury (AKI) frequently, yet gaps remain in understanding why adults seem to have higher rates compared to children. Our objectives were to evaluate th...

    Authors: Erica C. Bjornstad, Gary Cutter, Pramod Guru, Shina Menon, Isabella Aldana, Scott House, Nancy M. Tofil, Catherine A. St. Hill, Yasir Tarabichi, Valerie M. Banner-Goodspeed, Amy B. Christie, Surapaneni Krishna Mohan, Devang Sanghavi, Jarrod M. Mosier, Girish Vadgaonkar, Allan J. Walkey…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:63
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. To develop a reliable model to predict rapid kidney function decline (RKFD) among population at risk of cardiovascular disease.

    Authors: Qiuxia Zhang, Junyan Lu, Li Lei, Guodong Li, Hongbin Liang, Jingyi Zhang, Yun Li, Xiangqi Lu, Xinlu Zhang, Yaode Chen, Jiazhi Pan, Yejia Chen, Xinxin Lin, Xiaobo Li, Shiyu Zhou, Shengli An…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:62
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) is the main vascular complication of kidney transplantation. For research and treatment purposes, several authors consider critical renal artery stenosis to be greater t...

    Authors: Manoela Linhares Machado Barteczko, Henry Campos Orellana, Gustavo Rocha Feitosa Santos, Attílio Galhardo, Gabriel Kanhouche, Ana Carolina Buso Faccinetto, Hélio Tedesco Júnior, José Osmar Medina Pestana, Ângelo Amato Vincenzo de Paola and Adriano Henrique Pereira Barbosa
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:61
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. Anemia is a common complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and HIV infection. The number of people living with HIV on hemodialysis (HD) is increasing. However, there is no data about anemia and related th...

    Authors: Lei Peng, Yanan He, Jiong Zhang, Daqing Hong and Guisen Li
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:60
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Sodium zirconium cyclosilicate (SZC) is an effective and well-tolerated treatment for hyperkalemia in maintenance hemodialysis patients. In post-hoc analyses of the phase 3b DIALIZE study, we examined the spec...

    Authors: Steven Fishbane, Martin Ford, Masafumi Fukagawa, Kieran McCafferty, Anjay Rastogi, Bruce Spinowitz, Konstantin Staroselskiy, Konstantin Vishnevskiy, Vera Lisovskaja, Ayman Al-Shurbaji, Nicolas Guzman and Sunil Bhandari
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:59
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. This study aimed to identify the factors related to treatment adherence behaviors among old-age hemodialysis patients in Hamadan based on the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior (ETPB) during the covid-19 pand...

    Authors: Vida Sheikh, Majid Barati, Salman Khazaei and Hanieh Jormand
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:58
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims abstain from daytime consumption of fluids and foods, although some high-risk individuals are exempt. Because fasting's effects on the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) hav...

    Authors: Numan A. AlAbdan, Omar A. Almohammed, Maryam S. Altukhaim, Mahfooz A. Farooqui, Mubarak I. Abdalla, Hazza Q. Al Otaibi, Norah R. Alshuraym, Shahad N. Alghusun, Lama H. Alotaibi and Abdullah A. Alsayyari
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:54
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. To date, a few case reports have described the association between poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis (PSAGN) and hemolytic anemia/thrombocytopenia, both with or without a pathology similar to that of ...

    Authors: Dan Inoue, Takashi Oda, Sachiko Iwama, Takahiko Hoshino, Mitsuya Mukae, Takashi Sakai, Aki Kojima, Takahiro Uchida, Tadasu Kojima, Kentaro Sugisaki, Tomohiro Tomiyasu, Noriko Yoshikawa and Muneharu Yamada
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:56
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  12. COVID-19 is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages G4-G5, on dialysis or after kidney transplantation (kidney replacement therapy, KRT). SARS-CoV...

    Authors: P. Bouwmans, A. L. Messchendorp, J. S. Sanders, L. Hilbrands, M. E. J. Reinders, P. Vart, F. J. Bemelman, A. C. Abrahams, M. A. van den Dorpel, M. A. Ten Dam, A. P. J. de Vries, T. Rispens, M. Steenhuis, R. T. Gansevoort and M. H. Hemmelder
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:55
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  13. A quarter of patients do not receive any information on the modalities of renal remplacement therapy (RRT) before its initiation. In our facility, we provide therapeutic education workshops for all RRT except ...

    Authors: Abdallah Guerraoui, Roula Galland, Flora Belkahla-Delabruyere, Odile Didier, Veronique Berger, Pierre Sauvajon, Christian Serve, Jean Charles Zuriaga, Fréderic Riquier and Agnes Caillette-Beaudoin
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:53
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. Albumin (ALB) levels are negatively associated with mortality in patients with sepsis. However, among sepsis patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), ther...

    Authors: Song Sheng, Yan-Hong Zhang, Hang-Kun Ma and Ye Huang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:52
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Acute T-cell mediated rejection (aTCMR) is still an issue in kidney transplantation, for it is associated with chronic rejection, graft loss, and overall worse outcomes. For these reasons, a standard non-invas...

    Authors: Angelica Canossi, Samuele Iesari, Quirino Lai, Simone Ciavatta, Tiziana Del Beato, Alessandra Panarese, Barbara Binda, Alessandra Tessitore, Franco Papola and Francesco Pisani
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:51
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and may require renal replacement therapy (RRT). Dipstick urinalysis is frequently obtained, but data regarding the progno...

    Authors: Meredith C. McAdams, Michael Li, Pin Xu, L. Parker Gregg, Jiten Patel, Duwayne L. Willett, Ferdinand Velasco, Christoph U. Lehmann and S. Susan Hedayati
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:50
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. The urine protein-creatinine ratio (UPCR) in a spot first-morning urine sample is used to estimate 24-h urine proteinuria (24hUP) in patients who underwent urine protein testing. UPCR cannot be directly compar...

    Authors: Fan Yang, Jing-Song Shi, Si-Wen Gong, Xiao-Dong Xu and Wei-Bo Le
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:49
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Little information is available on current practice in beta-lactam dosing during continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). Optimized dosing is essential for improving outcomes, and there is no consensus on ...

    Authors: Elodie Matusik, Justine Lemtiri, Guillaume Wabont and Fabien Lambiotte
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:48
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. The leading cause of death in end-stage kidney disease is related to cardiovascular disease. Macrophages are known to be involved in both chronic kidney disease (CKD) and heart failure, however their role in t...

    Authors: M. A. Mawhin, R. G. Bright, J. D. Fourre, E. I. Vloumidi, J. Tomlinson, A. Sardini, C. D. Pusey and K. J. Woollard
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:47
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. Patients receiving intermittent hemodialysis have variable times of recovery to feeling better after dialysis. QT prolongation, a precursor to clinical and subclinical cardiovascular events, may contribute to ...

    Authors: Jacqueline Watt, Jessica Fitzpatrick, Stephen M. Sozio, Bernard G. Jaar, Michelle M. Estrella, Larisa G. Tereshchenko, Jose M. Monroy-Trujillo, Michael Walsh and Rulan S. Parekh
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:46
    Content type: Research Published on:

  21. The knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage one’s own health is termed patient activation and can be assessed using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM). This measure is increasingly recommended for use in...

    Authors: Winnie Magadi, Courtney J. Lightfoot, Katherine E. Memory, Shalini Santhakumaran, Sabine N. van der Veer, Nicola Thomas, Rachel Gair and Alice C. Smith
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:45
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. Cardiac valve calcification (CVC) is common in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). We investigated the effect of CVC on all-cause and cardiovascular (CV) mortality in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients.

    Authors: Jiuxu Bai, Xiaoling Zhang, Aihong Zhang, Yanping Zhang, Kaiming Ren, Zhuo Ren, Chen Zhao, Qian Wang and Ning Cao
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:43
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. Without sufficient evidence in postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill patients undergoing emergency surgery, it is meaningful to explore the incidence, risk factors, and prognosis of postope...

    Authors: Linhui Hu, Lu Gao, Danqing Zhang, Yating Hou, Lin Ling He, Huidan Zhang, Yufan Liang, Jing Xu and Chunbo Chen
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:42
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. The kidney is the main site for the removal of chromogranin A (CgA). Previous studies have found that patients with renal impairment displayed elevated concentrations of CgA in plasma and that CgA concentratio...

    Authors: Hui Yu, Hongping Wang, Xue Su, Aili Cao, Xingmei Yao, Yunman Wang, Bingbing Zhu, Hao Wang and Ji Fang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:41
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Pozzi protocol (methylprednisolone intravenous infusion in 1st-3rd-5th months and oral steroid for 6 months) has been thought to be the classic therapy for IgA nephropathy (IgAN) patients with proteinuria> 1.0...

    Authors: Mengjun Liang, Liping Xiong, Aihua Li, Jiafan Zhou, Yajuan Huang, Miaofang Huang, Xing Zhang, Hongrui Shi, Ning Su, Yi Wei and Zongpei Jiang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:40
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. The impact of blood pressure on neurological symptoms and risk of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is unknown in primary and secondary thrombotic microangiopathies (TMAs).

    Authors: Jean-Michel Halimi, Benjamin Thoreau, Florent von Tokarski, Adeline Bauvois, Juliette Gueguen, Nicolas Goin, Christelle Barbet, Sylvie Cloarec, Elodie Mérieau, Sébastien Lachot, Denis Garot, Adrien Lemaignen, Emmanuel Gyan, Franck Perrotin, Claire Pouplard, François Maillot…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:39
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an independent risk factor for stroke. Stroke is also an independent risk factor for worse CKD outcomes and inflammation may contribute to this bidirectional relationship. This ...

    Authors: James Tollitt, Stuart M. Allan, Rajkumar Chinnadurai, Aghogho Odudu, Margaret Hoadley, Craig Smith and Philip A. Kalra
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:38
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of recipient obesity on the short- and long-term outcomes of patients undergoing primary kidney transplantation (KT).

    Authors: Uwe Scheuermann, Jonas Babel, Uta-Carolin Pietsch, Antje Weimann, Orestis Lyros, Katrin Semmling, Hans-Michael Hau, Daniel Seehofer, Sebastian Rademacher and Robert Sucher
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:37
    Content type: Research Published on:

  30. Olfactory and gustatory changes may contribute to poor appetite and food aversion in chronic kidney disease (CKD), though the prevalence of olfactory and gustatory dysfunction is not known in the CKD population.

    Authors: Api Chewcharat, Elizabeth A. Phipps, Khushboo Bhatia, Sahir Kalim, Andrew S. Allegretti, Meghan E. Sise, Teodor G. Păunescu, Rituvanthikaa Seethapathy and Sagar U. Nigwekar
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:36
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. Xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) is a hydroxylase enzyme involved in the metabolism of purines. XOR activity can vary: the homodimer protein can be converted into two different isoforms XD (antioxidant) and XO (p...

    Authors: Elżbieta Cecerska-Heryć, Rafał Heryć, Grażyna Dutkiewicz, Anna Michalczyk, Bartłomiej Grygorcewicz, Natalia Serwin, Sylwia Napiontek-Balińska and Barbara Dołęgowska
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:35
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Cardiovascular disease is an important driver of the increased mortality associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Higher left ventricular mass (LVM) predicts increased risk of adverse cardiovascular outco...

    Authors: Kevin C. Maki, Meredith L. Wilcox, Mary R. Dicklin, Rahul Kakkar and Michael H. Davidson
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:34
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. To verify that the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of vitamin D receptor (VDR) may lead to genetic susceptibility to left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), the present study was designed to study four SNPs ...

    Authors: Bingman Liu, Qingqing Yang, Liangyu Zhao, Hua Shui and Xiaoyun Si
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:32
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. Kidney transplantation is the best treatment for people with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Kidney allocation is the most important challenge in kidney transplantation process. In this study, a Fuzzy Inferenc...

    Authors: Nasrin Taherkhani, Mohammad Mehdi Sepehri, Roghaye Khasha and Shadi Shafaghi
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:31
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. AKI is related to severe adverse outcomes and mortality with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, that early diagnosed and intervened is imperative. Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) i...

    Authors: Moli Yin, Yuanwang Nie, Hao Liu, Lei Liu, Lu Tang, Yuan Dong, Chuanmin Hu and Huiyan Wang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:30
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. Renal insufficiency (RI) is a frequent comorbidity among patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). We aimed to evaluate the attributable risk associated with mild RI for the in-hospital outcomes in patients...

    Authors: Fengbo Xu, Guoqin Wang, Nan Ye, Weijing Bian, Lijiao Yang, Changsheng Ma, Dong Zhao, Jing Liu, Yongchen Hao, Jun Liu, Na Yang and Hong Cheng
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:29
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. After kidney transplantation, pregnancy and graft function may have a reciprocal interaction. We evaluated the influence of graft function on the course of pregnancy and vice versa.

    Authors: Anke Schwarz, Roland Schmitt, Gunilla Einecke, Frieder Keller, Ulrike Bode, Hermann Haller and Hans Heinrich Guenter
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:27
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. The Oxford classification/MEST score is an established histopathologic scoring system for patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN). The objective of this study was to derive a prognostic model for IgAN based on th...

    Authors: Yngvar Lunde Haaskjold, Rune Bjørneklett, Leif Bostad, Lars Sigurd Bostad, Njål Gjærde Lura and Thomas Knoop
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. The addition of sialic acid alters IgG from a pro-inflammatory state to an anti-inflammatory state. However, there is a lack of research on the changes of IgG sialylation in IgA nephropathy (IgAN).

    Authors: Youxia Liu, Hongfen Li, Huyan Yu, Fanghao Wang, Junya Jia and Tiekun Yan
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. Here we report estimates of glomerular basement membrane (GBM) thickness in the Brazilian population performed using direct (DM) and orthogonal interception methods (OIM), and comment on potential sources of v...

    Authors: Débora Leal Viana, Dona Jeanne Alladagbin, Washington L. C. dos-Santos and Claudio Pereira Figueira
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) may overlap with other connective tissue diseases, which is named overlap syndrome. Scleroderma renal crisis (SRC) is a rare but severe complication of SSc. SSc related thrombotic micr...

    Authors: Weiwei Kong, Yaomin Wang, Huiping Wang, Qin Zhou, Jianghua Chen and Fei Han
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:22
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  45. The impact of changes in portal pressure before and after liver resection (defined as ΔHVPG) on postoperative kidney function remains unknown. Therefore, we investigated the effect of ΔHVPG on (i) the incidenc...

    Authors: Christian Reiterer, Alexander Taschner, Florian Luf, Manfred Hecking, Dietmar Tamandl, Oliver Zotti, Thomas Reiberger, Patrick Starlinger, Mattias Mandorfer and Edith Fleischmann
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:21
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. BK virus associated nephropathy (BKVAN) is one of the common causes of graft loss among kidney transplanted recipients (KTRs). The current treatment for BKV nephropathy is decreasing the immunosuppressive regi...

    Authors: Zahra Rahimi, Ramin Yaghobi, Afsoon Afshari, Jamshid Roozbeh, Mohammad Javad Mokhtari and Ali Malek Hosseini
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. Hemodialysis-associated anaphylactic reactions are rare and frequently complex in nature due to the sheer number of possible culprit agents. Unfortunately, dialysis is often unavoidable or strictly essential f...

    Authors: Jia Neng TAN, Yi DA, Sabrina HAROON and Titus LAU
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:18
    Content type: Case report Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Nephrology 2022 23:44

  49. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global public health concern, but its disease burden and risk-attributable burden in CKD has been poorly studied in low - and middle-income countries (LMICs). This study aimed...

    Authors: Changrong Ke, Juanjuan Liang, Mi Liu, Shiwei Liu and Chunping Wang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Nephrology 2022 23:66

  50. In patients with diabetes and hypertension, proteinuria is independently associated with all-cause death. However, in the general population, urinary albumin to creatinine ratio (UACR) is less used to predict ...

    Authors: Anhang Zhang, Man Li, Jiaojiao Qiu, Jin Sun, Yongkang Su, Shuang Cai, Qiligeer Bao, Bokai Cheng, Shouyuan Ma, Yan Zhang, Shuxia Wang and Ping Zhu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:16
    Content type: Research Published on:
Submit manuscript

Affiliated with

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    2.3 - 2-year Impact Factor
    2.8 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.064 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.746 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    28 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    158 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    3,053,628 downloads
    3,742 Altmetric mentions 

Peer-review Terminology

  • The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

    Identity transparency: Single anonymized

    Reviewer interacts with: Editor

    Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

    More information is available here

Follow

Sign up for article alerts and news from this journal

BMC Nephrology

ISSN: 1471-2369

Contact us