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  1. Readmission within 30 days of hospital discharge is common and costly among end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. Little is known about long-term outcomes after readmission. We estimated the association bet...

    Authors: Katherine H. Ross, Bernard G. Jaar, Janice P. Lea, Tahsin Masud, Rachel E. Patzer and Laura C. Plantinga
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:285
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  2. Disagreements between clinic and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) measurements are well-described in the general population. Though hypertension is frequent in renal transplant recipients, only a few studies add...

    Authors: Eitan Gluskin, Keren Tzukert, Irit Mor-Yosef Levi, Olga Gotsman, Itamar Sagiv, Roy Abel, Aharon Bloch, Dvorah Rubinger, Michal Aharon, Michal Dranitzki Elhalel and Iddo Z. Ben-Dov
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:284
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  3. Compensation of contralateral kidney function after living-donor kidney donation is well known, and many predictive factors have been proposed. However, no prediction model has been proposed. This study was pe...

    Authors: Kenji Okumura, Shigeyoshi Yamanaga, Kosuke Tanaka, Kohei Kinoshita, Akari Kaba, Mika Fujii, Masatomo Ogata, Yuji Hidaka, Mariko Toyoda, Soichi Uekihara, Akira Miyata, Akito Inadome and Hiroshi Yokomizo
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:283
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  4. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major global health problem. We aim to evaluate the epidemiology, risk factors and outcomes of AKI episodes in our single centre.

    Authors: Su Hooi Teo, Kian-Guan Lee, Riece Koniman, Alvin Ren Kwang Tng, Zhong Hong Liew, Thin Thiri Naing, Huihua Li, Ru Yu Tan, Han Khim Tan, Hui Lin Choong, W. Y. Marjorie Foo and Manish Kaushik
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:282
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  5. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is common in patients with end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis, but is frequently underdiagnosed. The risk factors for PAD are well known within the general population, bu...

    Authors: Radislav R. Ašćerić, Nada B. Dimković, Goran Ž. Trajković, Biljana S. Ristić, Aleksandar N. Janković, Petar S. Durić and Nenad S. Ilijevski
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:281
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  7. Scleroderma Renal Crisis (SRC) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. While prednisone is strongly associated with SRC, there are no previous large cohort studies that have evaluated ace inhib...

    Authors: S. M. Gordon, J. B. Hughes, R. Nee, R. S. Stitt, W. T. Bailey, D. J. Little, J. D. Edison and S. W. Olson
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:279
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  8. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage renal disease (ESRD) are not well characterized in prostate cancer patients. This study aimed to examine the clinical characteristics and postsurgical outcomes of pat...

    Authors: Chen Ning, Xinyi Hu, Fangming Liu, Jun Lin, Jian Zhang, Zhipeng Wang and Yichen Zhu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:278
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  10. Metformin has shown promising results regarding cystogenesis inhibition in preclinical studies with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) models. We designed a prospective, preliminary, single-a...

    Authors: Bogdan Marian Sorohan, Gener Ismail, Andreea Andronesi, Georgia Micu, Bogdan Obrișcă, Roxana Jurubiță, Ioanel Sinescu and Cătălin Baston
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:276
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  11. Proliferative glomerulonephritis with monoclonal Immunoglobulin (G) deposits (PGNMID) is a rare kind of MGRS with intact monoclonal IgG deposition. Seventy percent of PGNMID patients were negative for M-spike.

    Authors: Xiao-juan Yu, Nan Hu, Su-xia Wang, Fu-de Zhou and Ming-hui Zhao
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:275
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  12. In recent years we have witnessed an increase in infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms in kidney transplant recipients (KTR). In our setting, we have observed a dramatic increase in infections caused...

    Authors: Gemma Sanclemente, Marta Bodro, Carlos Cervera, Laura Linares, Frederic Cofán, Francesc Marco, Jordi Bosch, Federico Oppenheimer, Fritz Dieckmann and Asunción Moreno
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:274
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  14. Acute kidney injury (AKI) affects approximately 13% of patients undergoing major abdominal surgery, and is a common and important clinical sign of perioperative injury. The aim of our analysis was to identify ...

    Authors: Ivana Dedinská, Peter Mikolajčík, Patra Skálová, Marián Mokáň and Ľudovít Laca
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:272
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  15. Monogenic mutations may be a significant cause of steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome. NUP93 is a gene previously reported to cause isolated steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome.

    Authors: Ibrahim Sandokji, Jonathan Marquez, Weizhen Ji, Cynthia A. Zerillo, Monica Konstantino, Saquib A. Lakhani, Mustafa K. Khokha and Jillian K. Warejko
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:271
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  16. Despite well-publicized suggestions to utilize arteriovenous fistulae and grafts to initiate hemodialysis, too many patients in the United States start dialysis via central venous catheters despite their well-...

    Authors: Tanya T. Tang, Murray L. Levin, Shubhada N. Ahya, Khaled Boobes and Muhammad H. Hasan
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:270
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  17. The product of the concentrations of urinary tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-2 and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-7 (urinary [TIMP-2] × [IGFBP-7]) has been suggested as biomarker for early d...

    Authors: Judith Schiefer, Paul Lichtenegger, Gabriela A. Berlakovich, Walter Plöchl, Claus G. Krenn, David M. Baron, Joanna Baron-Stefaniak and Peter Faybik
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:269
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  18. Current paradigms of detecting acute kidney injury (AKI) are insensitive and non-specific. Klotho is a pleiotropic protein that is predominantly expressed in renal tubules. In this study, we evaluated the diag...

    Authors: Yingying Qian, Lin Che, Yucheng Yan, Renhua Lu, Mingli Zhu, Song Xue, Zhaohui Ni and Leyi Gu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:268
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  19. CKD has been recognized as risk factors for 25(OH) D deficiency, and Low levels of 25(OH) D have been suggested to be a trigger factor of decreased level of Hb. However, there is lack of information about the ...

    Authors: Shiv Kumar Sah and Laxman Prasad Adhikary
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:267
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  20. Sclerostin, an antagonist of the Wingless-type mouse mammary tumor virus integration site (Wnt) pathway that regulates bone metabolism, is a potential contributor of chronic kidney disease (CKD)–mineral and bo...

    Authors: Te-Hui Kuo, Wei-Hung Lin, Jo-Yen Chao, An-Bang Wu, Chin-Chung Tseng, Yu-Tzu Chang, Hung-Hsiang Liou and Ming-Cheng Wang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:266
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  21. Palliative care has improved the quality of end-of-life (EOL) care and lowered the health care cost of cancer, and these benefits should be extended to patients with other serious illnesses including end-stage...

    Authors: Jui-Kun Chiang, Jean-Shi Chen and Yee-Hsin Kao
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:265
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  22. Many older patients approaching end-stage kidney disease have to decide whether to go for dialysis or non-dialytic conservative care (CC). Shared decision-making is recommended to align the treatment plan with...

    Authors: Wouter R. Verberne, Wanda S. Konijn, Karen Prantl, Janneke Dijkers, Margriet T. Roskam, Johannes J. M. van Delden and Willem Jan W. Bos
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:264
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  23. IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) often affects multiple organs and tissues, especially the kidneys, and is characterized by interstitial nephritis, obstructive nephropathy, and in rare cases glomerulopathy (incl...

    Authors: Nan-Nan Zhang, Yan-Yun Wang, Ling-Xin Kong, Wan-Zhong Zou and Bao Dong
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:263
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  24. There is limited evidence on the relationship between social support and renal outcomes in African Americans. We sought to determine the association of social support with prevalent chronic kidney disease (CKD...

    Authors: Rasheeda K. Hall, Clemontina A. Davenport, Mario Sims, Cathleen Colón-Emeric, Tiffany Washington, Jennifer St. Clair Russell, Jane Pendergast, Nrupen Bhavsar, Julia Scialla, Crystal C. Tyson, Wei Wang, Yuan-I Min, Bessie Young, L. Ebony Boulware and Clarissa J. Diamantidis
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:262
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  25. Epidemiologic studies has shown an association of albuminuria and low estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) with dementia, but the findings are inconsistent. This study examines the association between e...

    Authors: Jessica Mira Gabin, Solfrid Romundstad, Ingvild Saltvedt and Jostein Holmen
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:261
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  26. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding system is the industry standard tool for billing, disease classification, and epidemiology purposes. However, ICD codes are often not assigned or incor...

    Authors: Kabir Jalal, Edwin J. Anand, Rocco Venuto, Joe Eberle and Pradeep Arora
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:260
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  27. Approximately 30% of Persian cats have a c.10063C > A variant in polycystin 1 (PKD1) homolog causing autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). The variant is lethal in utero when in the homozygous sta...

    Authors: Yoshihiko Yu, Kate L. Shumway, Jodi S. Matheson, Marie E. Edwards, Timothy L. Kline and Leslie A. Lyons
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:259
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  28. Chronic Kidney Disease - Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD) is a significant cause of morbidity among haemodialysis patients and is associated with pathological changes in phosphate, calcium and parathyroid h...

    Authors: Zhipeng Zhan, Brendan Smyth, Nigel D. Toussaint, Nicholas A. Gray, Li Zuo, Janak R. de Zoysa, Christopher T. Chan, Chenggang Jin, Anish Scaria, Carmel M. Hawley, Vlado Perkovic, Meg J. Jardine and Ling Zhang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:258
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  29. Factors associated with left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) of peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients are limited. We aim to explore and quantify the associated factors of LVSD among PD patients.

    Authors: Teeranan Angkananard, Jirayut Janma, Thanapath Wannasiri, Piyathida Sangthong and Siribha Changsirikulchai
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:257
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  30. IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is the commonest global cause of glomerulonephritis. Extent of fibrosis, tubular atrophy and glomerulosclerosis predict renal function decline. Extent of renal fibrosis is assessed with ...

    Authors: M. P. Graham-Brown, A. Singh, J. Wormleighton, N. J. Brunskill, G. P. McCann, J. Barratt, J. O. Burton and G. Xu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:256
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  31. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is the most common extra-pulmonary organ failure in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Renal recovery after AKI is determined by several factors. The objective of this study ...

    Authors: Anupol Panitchote, Omar Mehkri, Andrei Hastings, Tarik Hanane, Sevag Demirjian, Heather Torbic, Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, Sudhir Krishnan and Abhijit Duggal
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:255
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  32. In this study, we investigated the association of time-varying serum albumin levels with mortality over a 5-year period in one cohort of patients undergoing long-term peritoneal dialysis (PD) therapy.

    Authors: Na Hao, Ben-Chung Cheng, Hong-Tao Yang, Chien-Hsing Wu, Yang-Yang Lei, Mei-Chen Chao, Pei-Ying Wang, Li-Chueh Kuo, Sin-Hua Moi, Cheng-Hong Yang and Jin-Bor Chen
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:254
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  33. 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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  34. Observational studies of hemodialysis patients treated thrice weekly have shown that serum and dialysate potassium and bicarbonate concentrations are associated with patient outcomes. The effect of more freque...

    Authors: John K. Leypoldt, Michael A. Kraus, Bertrand L. Jaber, Eric D. Weinhandl and Allan J. Collins
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:252
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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. “Acute kidney dysfunction with no rejection” (ADNR) corresponds to acute kidney injury without histological evidence of acute rejection (AR) in kidney transplant recipients (KTR). The prognosis of ADNR is unkn...

    Authors: François Paquot, Laurent Weekers, Catherine Bonvoisin, Hans Pottel and François Jouret
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2019 20:249
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  38. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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
    Content type: Case report Published on:
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