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  1. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the major complications of Human immune deficiency Virus (HIV) and a risk factor for poor outcome of these patients. We aimed to describe the profile and outcome of HIV p...

    Authors: Marie Patrice Halle, Noel Essomba, Hilaire Djantio, Germaine Tsele, Hermine Fouda, Namme Henri Luma, Enow Gloria Ashuntantang and Folefack Francois Kaze
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:253
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  2. Acute kidney injury represents a major threat to the transplanted kidney. Nevertheless, these kidneys have the potential to fully recover. Tubular regeneration following acute kidney injury is driven by the re...

    Authors: Daniela Knafl, Wolfgang Winnicki, Peter Mazal and Ludwig Wagner
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:251
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  3. Globally 10% of the population worldwide are affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD), making it one of the most prevalent chronic diseases. Several studies have highlighted that the symptoms of CKD have a sig...

    Authors: Bushra Alshammari, Helen Noble, Helen McAneney and Peter O’Halloran
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:250
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  4. Thin basement membrane nephropathy (TBMN) is a relatively common disease. Patients typically present with isolated hematuria, which has a good renal prognosis. In contrast, glomerulocystic kidney disease (GCKD...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Hashimoto, Naro Ohashi, Naoko Tsuji, Yoshitaka Naito, Shinsuke Isobe, Tomoyuki Fujikura, Takayuki Tsuji, Akihiko Kato, Kandai Nozu, Kazumoto Iijima and Hideo Yasuda
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:248
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  6. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) occurs frequently in many end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, may significantly worsen survival odds and prognosis. However, the exact neuropathological mechanisms of MCI c...

    Authors: Haitao Lu, Zhengzhang Gu, Wei Xing, Shanhua Han, Jiangfen Wu, Hua Zhou, Jiule Ding and Jinggang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:246
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  7. It has been proposed that peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) agonists might reduce renal fibrosis, however, several studies had contradictory results. Moreover, the possible interaction of TGF-β

    Authors: Ágnes Németh, Miklós M. Mózes, Laurent Calvier, Georg Hansmann and Gábor Kökény
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:245
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  8. IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common glomerulonephritis worldwide and is an important cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Exploring novel biomarkers is necessary for predicting the disease activity a...

    Authors: Tong-dan Bi, Jian-nan Zheng, Jun-xiao Zhang, Long-shu Yang, Nan Liu, Li Yao and Lin-lin Liu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:244
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  9. It remained lack of a kind of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) model which was widely used in clinical practice and comparable to CI-AKI in humans.

    Authors: Yuan-hui Liu, Jin-hua Xue, Deng-xuan Wu, Wei-jie Bei, Kun Wang, Yong Liu, Ji-yan Chen and Ning Tan
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:243
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  10. Lab tests on saliva could be useful because of low invasivity. Previous reports indicated that creatinine, uric acid, and potassium are measurable in saliva. For these analytes the study investigated methodolo...

    Authors: Giancarlo Bilancio, Pierpaolo Cavallo, Cinzia Lombardi, Ermanno Guarino, Vincenzo Cozza, Francesco Giordano, Giuseppe Palladino and Massimo Cirillo
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:242
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  11. The development of large-scale chronic kidney disease (CKD) cohorts within the Veterans Affairs (VA) system has been limited by several factors, including the high proportion of missing race data etc. The goal...

    Authors: Mukoso N. Ozieh, Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Ralph C. Ward, David J. Taber and Leonard E. Egede
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:241
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  12. To evaluate the treatment of sustained low-efficiency hemodialysis (SLED) against patients with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) following wasp stings.

    Authors: Ting-Ting Ye, Rong Gou, Ya-Ni Mao, Jian-Ming Shen, Dong He and Yan-Yan Deng
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:240
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  13. Majority of children with nephrotic syndrome are steroid sensitive, but treatment of difficult to treat nephrotic (frequent relapsing, steroid dependent and steroid resistant) syndrome is challenging. Low dose...

    Authors: Khemchand Netaram Moorani, Harnam Moolchand Hotchandani, Aasia Mohammad Zubair, Neelesh Chander Lohana and Nanga Ram Veerwani
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:239
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  14. Urgent-start peritoneal dialysis (PD) can help patients with end-stage renal diseases (ESRD) that are referred late to dialysis. However, catheter patency and related complications of urgent-start PD have not ...

    Authors: Hongjian Ye, Xiao Yang, Chunyan Yi, Qunying Guo, Yafang Li, Qiongqiong Yang, Wei Chen, Haiping Mao, Jianbo Li, Yagui Qiu, Xunhua Zheng, Dihua Zhang, Jianxiong Lin, Zhijian Li, Zongpei Jiang, Fengxian Huang…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:238
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  15. Body mass index (BMI) is associated with renal disease progression in unspecified CKD. The relationship between BMI and primary glomerular disease (GN) may be more complex. We aimed to evaluate the association...

    Authors: Benjamin M. P. Elyan, Jennifer S. Lees, Keith A. Gillis, Bruce Mackinnon, Jonathan G. Fox, Colin C. Geddes and Emily P. McQuarrie
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:237
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  17. For patients with end stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis, erythrocytosis occurs rarely. Erythrocytosis increases the risk of thrombosis, which is a common complication in hemodialysis patients. The ri...

    Authors: Shree Agrawal, Preethi Ramachandran, Rupinder Gill, Samuel Spitalewitz, Douglas Gunzler, Marcia R. Silver, Edward J. Horwitz and Jeffrey R. Schelling
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:235
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  19. Spain has dramatically increased the number of controlled circulatory death donors (cDCD). The initial selection criteria for considering cDCD for kidney transplantation (KT) have been expanded progressively, ...

    Authors: María José Pérez-Sáez, Omar Lafuente Covarrubias, Domingo Hernández, Francesc Moreso, Edoardo Melilli, Javier Juega, Erika de Sousa, Paula López-Sánchez, María Luisa Rodríguez-Ferrero, Naroa Maruri-Kareaga, María Dolores Navarro, Rosalía Valero, María Auxiliadora Mazuecos, Francisco Llamas, Paloma Martín-Moreno, Antón Fernández-García…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:233
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  20. Weight change post-kidney transplantation and its associations in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, a group known to have poor patient and graft outcomes, are unknown. Weight change based on b...

    Authors: Sandawana William Majoni, Shahid Ullah, James Collett, Jaquelyne T. Hughes and Stephen McDonald
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:232
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  21. Maintenance dialysis is a costly and resource intense activity. In Australia, inadequate health infrastructure and poor access to technically skilled staff can limit service provision in remote areas where man...

    Authors: G. Gorham, K. Howard, Y. Zhao, A. M. S. Ahmed, P. D. Lawton, C. Sajiv, S. W. Majoni, P. Wood, T. Conlon, S. Signal, S. L. Robinson, S. Brown and A. Cass
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:231
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  22. Maternal kidney disease (acute kidney injury (AKI), advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), dependence on dialysis or a kidney transplant) has a substantial impact on pregnancy, with risks of significant perina...

    Authors: Nadom Safi, Elizabeth Sullivan, Zhuoyang Li, Mark Brown, William Hague, Stephen McDonald, Michael J. Peek, Angela Makris, Angela M. O’Brien and Shilpanjali Jesudason
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:230
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  23. Acute renal failure is a rare occurrence in a patient with an unremarkable past medical history and should always lead to an in depth clinical study. The occurrence in the same healthy young subject, of consec...

    Authors: V. Esposito, D. Catucci, M. Colucci, M. Torreggiani, F. Grosjean and C. Esposito
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:229
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  24. Long-term exposure of mercury may induce glomerulonephritis. Clinical and pathological features of mercury-associated glomerulonephritis are not fully clear. This study retrospectively analyzed 35 cases of mer...

    Authors: Ai-bo Qin, Tao Su, Su-xia Wang, Fan Zhang, Fu-de Zhou and Ming-hui Zhao
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:228
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  25. Cystinuria is an inherited disorder of renal amino acid transport that causes recurrent nephrolithiasis and significant morbidity in humans. It has an incidence of 1 in 7000 worldwide making it one of the most...

    Authors: Lauren E. Woodard, Richard C. Welch, Ruth Ann Veach, Thomas M. Beckermann, Feng Sha, Edward J. Weinman, Talat Alp Ikizler, Jay A. Tischfield, Amrik Sahota and Matthew H. Wilson
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:227
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  27. Hyperkalaemia occurs frequently in many maintenance haemodialysis (MHD) patients after parathyroidectomy (PTX) with secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT). However, the clinical risk factors that predict postope...

    Authors: Yu-Huan Song, Guang-Yan Cai, Yue-Fei Xiao, Yi-Ping Wang, Song-Tao Yang and Xiang-Mei Chen
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:225
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  28. Primary hyperoxaluria (PH) is a rare inborn disorder of the metabolism of glyoxylate, which causes the hallmark production oxalate and forms insoluble calcium oxalate crystals that accumulate in the kidney and...

    Authors: Ruiming Cai, Minzhuang Lin, Zhiyong Chen, Yongtong Lai, Xianen Huang, Guozhi Zhao, Xuekun Guo, Zhongtang Xiong, Juan Chen, Hui Chen, Qingping Jiang, Shaoyan Liu, Yuexin Yang, Weixiang Liang, Minhui Zou, Tao Liu…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:224
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  29. Anisodamine is used for the treatment of reperfusion injury in various organs. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness and mechanisms of action of anisodamine in promoting recovery from glycerol-induc...

    Authors: Yun-feng Li, Bing-yuan Xu, Ran An, Xin-fang Du, Kun Yu, Jia-hua Sun, Guo-hong Zhang, Wei Wang, Li-ping An and Guang-li Wu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:223
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  30. Carbon dioxide (CO2) accumulation is a challenging issue in critically ill patients. CO2 can be eliminated by renal replacement therapy but studies are scarce and clinical relevance is unknown. We prospectively s...

    Authors: Joop Jonckheer, Herbert Spapen, Aziz Debain, Joy Demol, Marc Diltoer, Olivier Costa, Katrien Lanckmans, Taku Oshima, Patrick M. Honoré, Manu Malbrain and Elisabeth De Waele
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:222
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  31. Cilastatin (CL) is an inhibitor of dehydropeptidase-I, which is safely used in clinical practice to prevent nephrotoxicity of antibiotics. Tacrolimus (TAC) is the most important immunosuppressant in renal tran...

    Authors: Kang Luo, Sun Woo Lim, Jian Jin, Long Jin, Hyo Wook Gil, Dai Sig Im, Hyeon Seok Hwang and Chul Woo Yang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:221
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  32. The ASTRAL trial showed no difference in clinical outcomes between medical therapy and revascularization for atherosclerotic renal vascular disease (ARVD). Here we report a sub-study using echocardiography to ...

    Authors: Darren Green, Diana Vassallo, Kelly Handley, Natalie Ives, Keith Wheatley, Constantina Chrysochou, Janet Hegarty, Julian Wright, Jon Moss, Rajan K. Patel, Chris Deighan, John Webster, Peter Rowe, Sue Carr, Jenny Cross, Jamie O’Driscoll…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:220
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  33. Bacterial peritonitis is a serious complication of patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD). Although the identification of causative organisms and use of appropriate antibiotics are essential for treatmen...

    Authors: Katsuyuki Tanabe, Shugo Okamoto, Sumie Hiramatsu Asano and Jun Wada
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:219
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  34. Chronic-active antibody mediated rejection (c-aABMR) is a major contributor to long-term kidney allograft loss. We conducted a retrospective analysis to establish the efficacy of treatment with intravenous imm...

    Authors: Kasia A. Sablik, Marian C. Clahsen-van Groningen, Caspar W. N. Looman, Jeffrey Damman, Madelon van Agteren and Michiel G. H. Betjes
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:218
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  35. Klotho is a transmembrane protein acting as a co-receptor for FGF-23 and thus exerts clinical actions on mineral metabolism. The association of secreted Klotho with outcomes in CKD patients is unclear. This st...

    Authors: Evangelos Memmos, Pantelis Sarafidis, Panagiotis Pateinakis, Apostolos Tsiantoulas, Danai Faitatzidou, Panagiotis Giamalis, Vassileios Vasilikos and Aikaterini Papagianni
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:217
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  36. Diuresis has been observed within a week following renal transplantation, suggesting that the procedure causes acute disturbance of renal water homeostasis. Aquaporin (AQP) 1 and AQP2, important proteins for r...

    Authors: Sayaka Oshikawa-Hori, Naoko Yokota-Ikeda, Hiroko Sonoda and Masahiro Ikeda
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:216
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  37. Survival analysis of patients on maintenance hemodialysis (HD) has been the subject of many studies. No study has evaluated the effect of different factors on the survival time of these patients. In this study...

    Authors: Vahid Ebrahimi, Mohammad Hossein Khademian, Seyed Jalil Masoumi, Mohammad Reza Morvaridi and Shahrokh Ezzatzadegan Jahromi
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:215
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  38. Many studies have evaluated the usefulness of creatinine- (eGFRcr) and cystatin C-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFRcys) at specific time points in predicting renal outcome. This study compared t...

    Authors: Suhyun Kim, Subin Hwang, Hye Ryoun Jang, Insuk Sohn, Hyeon Seon Ahn, Hyung-Doo Park, Wooseong Huh, Dong-Chan Jin, Yoon-Goo Kim, Dae Joong Kim, Ha Young Oh and Jung Eun Lee
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:214
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  40. Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in kidney transplant recipients. While the acute phase toxicity in patients with PCP is well-characterized, there is a ...

    Authors: Ji Eun Kim, Ahram Han, Hajeong Lee, Jongwon Ha, Yon Su Kim and Seung Seok Han
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:212
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  41. High serum calcium levels should be avoided in patients on hemodialysis (HD) because they can induce cardiovascular diseases and worsen the patient’s prognosis. In contrast, low serum calcium levels worsen the...

    Authors: Mineaki Kitamura, Yohei Tateishi, Shuntaro Sato, Satoko Kitamura, Yuki Ota, Kumiko Muta, Hiroshi Yamashita, Tadashi Uramatsu, Yoko Obata, Yasushi Mochizuki, Masaharu Nishikido, Tsuyoshi Izumo, Takashi Harada, Satoshi Funakoshi, Takayuki Matsuo, Akira Tsujino…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:210
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  43. Evidence of chronic low levels of exposure to heavy metals in Sri Lanka has emerged in a number of studies carried out in the recent past. The source and magnitude of such exposures have to be understood in or...

    Authors: T. B. Ananda Jayalal, T. W. M. A. Jayaruwan Bandara, Sanath T. C. Mahawithanage, M. A. Jagath Wansapala and Sapthala P. L. Galappaththi
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:208
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  45. Successful pregnancy outcomes after in vitro fertilization in kidney transplant recipients have been reported, but few cases of successful pregnancy after ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation have been desc...

    Authors: Akihiro Kosoku, Junji Uchida, Keiko Maeda, Yuki Yoshikawa, Akihiro Hamuro, Hisao Shimada, Kazuya Kabei, Shunji Nishide, Tomoaki Iwai, Nobuyuki Kuwabara, Toshihide Naganuma, Norihiko Kumada, Yoshiaki Takemoto and Tatsuya Nakatani
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:206
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  46. Methanol poisoning is a serious public health issue in developing countries, but few data are available in the literature on acute kidney injury (AKI) after methanol intoxication.

    Authors: Shu-Ting Chang, Yu-Ting Wang, Yi-Chou Hou, I-Kuan Wang, Hsiang-Hsi Hong, Cheng-Hao Weng, Wen-Hung Huang, Ching-Wei Hsu and Tzung-Hai Yen
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:205
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  47. Despite the interrelationships between obesity, eGFR and albuminuria, few large studies examine how obesity modifies the association between these markers of kidney function and adverse clinical outcomes.

    Authors: Marcello Tonelli, Natasha Wiebe, Csaba P. Kovesdy, Matthew T. James, Scott W. Klarenbach, Braden J. Manns and Brenda R. Hemmelgarn
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:204
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  48. Infection is the second most common cause of mortality for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), accompanying with immune dysfunction. Endothelin (EDN) is known to be related to inflammation; however, it ...

    Authors: Chih-Chin Kao, Shih-Ying Cheng, Yu-Jia Wang, Shu-Chen Chien, Yu-Wen Hsu, Mei-Yi Wu, Hsing-Fang Lu, Sean Nam, Tao Sun, Mai-Szu Wu and Wei-Chiao Chang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:203
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  49. Persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC) is a common vena cava malformation, and drains blood into the right atrium via the dilated coronary sinus in most cases. It is usually asymptomatic and detected incid...

    Authors: Huisi He, Bingyang Li, Yiyi Ma, Yuqiang Zhang, Chaoyang Ye, Changlin Mei, Shengqiang Yu, Bing Dai and Yawei Liu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:202
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  50. A low FT3 level is significantly associated with a variety of kidney disease and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, it remains unclear whether low FT3 is associated with CI-AKI in patients who underwe...

    Authors: Kai-Yang Lin, Sun-Ying Wang, Hui Jiang, Han-Chuan Chen, Zhi-Yong Wu, Yan-Song Guo and Peng-Li Zhu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:201
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