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  1. Few studies have investigated the management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated end-stage renal failure particularly in low-resource settings with limited access to renal replacement therapy. We ...

    Authors: Kwazi C. Z. Ndlovu, Wilbert Sibanda and Alain Assounga
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:48
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  2. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) are renal markers associated with risks of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and all-cause mortality in diabetic patients. T...

    Authors: Colman Siu Cheung Fung, Eric Yuk Fai Wan, Anca Ka Chun Chan and Cindy Lo Kuen Lam
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:47
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  3. Before establishing a prospective cohort, an initial pilot study is recommended. However, there are no precise guidelines on this subject.

    Authors: Jacques Massol, Gérard Janin, Camille Bachot, Christophe Gousset, Geoffroy Sainte-Claire Deville and Jean-Marc Chalopin
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:46
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  4. Acute Kidney injury (AKI) is common and increases mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU). We carried out this study to explore whether fluid overload is an independent risk factor for AKI.

    Authors: Nawal Salahuddin, Mustafa Sammani, Ammar Hamdan, Mini Joseph, Yasir Al-Nemary, Rawan Alquaiz, Ranim Dahli and Khalid Maghrabi
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:45
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  5. Membranous nephropathy is a common cause of the nephrotic syndrome. Treatment with standard regimens fails to induce complete remission in most patients. We evaluated the efficacy of combination therapy with r...

    Authors: Frank B. Cortazar, David E. Leaf, Charles T. Owens, Karen Laliberte, William F. Pendergraft III and John L. Niles
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:44
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  6. Awareness of the spectrum of clinical manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), especially uncommon changes, is essential for diagnosis and effective management of patients.

    Authors: Xiaole Su, Xi Qiao, Jing Li, Lifang Gao, Chen Wang and Lihua Wang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:43
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  7. Medication non-adherence is common among renal dialysis patients. High degrees of non-adherence in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) can lead to failure to detect a true treatment effect. Cardio-protective p...

    Authors: Karumathil M Murali, Judy Mullan, Jenny H. C. Chen, Steven Roodenrys and Maureen Lonergan
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:42
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  8. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious clinical problem with high rate of mortality and morbidity. Currently used prophylactic and therapeutic strategies to address AKI are limited and warrant further studies....

    Authors: Abdulrahman K. Al Asmari, Khalid Tariq Al Sadoon, Ali Ahmed Obaid, Deivakadatcham Yesunayagam and Mohammad Tariq
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:41
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  9. A pathergy reaction is defined as a hyperreactivity of the skin in response to minimal trauma, which is important in the diagnosis of Behçet’s disease (BD). However, a pathergy reaction may not be restricted t...

    Authors: Takaaki Higashihara, Akira Okada, Taiko Kusano, Kazuyoshi Ishigaki, Akira Shimizu and Hideki Takano
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:40
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  10. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is frequently detected in deceased donors (DDs), and it could be associated with adverse clinical outcomes in corresponding kidney transplant recipients (KTRs). In this regard, we sou...

    Authors: Jeong Ho Kim, Young Soo Kim, Min Seok Choi, Young Ok Kim, Sun Ae Yoon, Ji-Il Kim, In Sung Moon, Bum Soon Choi, Cheol Whee Park, Chul Woo Yang, Yong-Soo Kim and Byung Ha Chung
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:39
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  11. Gitelman syndrome (GS) is an autosomal recessive renal tubular disorder characterised by renal salt wasting with hypokalaemia, metabolic alkalosis, hypomagnesaemia and hypocalciuria. It is caused by mutations in

    Authors: Pieter Du Toit van der Merwe, Megan A. Rensburg, William L. Haylett, Soraya Bardien and M. Razeen Davids
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:38
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  12. Evidence suggests that exercise training for hemodialysis patients positively improves morbidity and mortality outcomes, yet exercise programs remain rare and are not systematically incorporated into care. We ...

    Authors: Pia Kontos, Shabbir M.H. Alibhai, Karen-Lee Miller, Dina Brooks, Romeo Colobong, Trisha Parsons, Sarbjit Vanita Jassal, Alison Thomas, Malcolm Binns and Gary Naglie
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:37
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  13. Despite the urgent need for evidence to guide the end-of-life (EOL) care for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), we have limited knowledge of the costs and intensity of EOL care in this population. The...

    Authors: Bradley Chen, Victoria Y. Fan, Yiing-Jenq Chou and Chin-Chi Kuo
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:36
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  14. During chronic kidney disease progression, kidney-specific risk factors for cardiovascular disease come into play. The present study investigated the impact of indoxyl sulfate, dietary tryptophan-derived uremi...

    Authors: Tomasz W. Kamiński, Krystyna Pawlak, Małgorzata Karbowska, Michał Myśliwiec and Dariusz Pawlak
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:35
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  15. Mediterranean diet is characterized by low to moderate consumption of animal protein and high consumption of fruits, vegetables, bread, beans, nuts, seeds and other cereals. It has been associated with reduced...

    Authors: Khawla Kammoun, Hanen Chaker, Hichem Mahfoudh, Nouha Makhlouf, Faical Jarraya and Jamil Hachicha
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:34
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  16. Atherosclerosis is regarded as a combination of two major separate diseases: atherosis and sclerosis. Sclerotic component depends on deterioration of elastic properties of the aortic wall and is called aortic ...

    Authors: Tomasz Zapolski, Jacek Furmaga, Andrzej Jaroszyński, Anna Wysocka, Sławomir Rudzki and Andrzej P. Wysokiński
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:33
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  17. We developed a genetic risk score (GRS) and examined whether the GRS may predict incident stage 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD) independent of common clinical risk factors.

    Authors: Jiantao Ma, Qiong Yang, Shih-Jen Hwang, Caroline S. Fox and Audrey Y. Chu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:32
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  18. In Sri Lanka, there exists chronic kidney disease of both known (CKD) and unknown etiologies (CKDu). Identification of novel biomarkers that are customized to the specific causative factors would lead to early...

    Authors: Saravanabavan Sayanthooran, Dhammika N. Magana-Arachchi, Lishanthe Gunerathne and Tilak Abeysekera
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:31
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  19. Optimal treatment for established renal failure is living donor kidney transplantation. However this pathway exposes healthy individuals to significant reduction in nephron mass via major surgical procedure. L...

    Authors: Shona Mackinnon, Emma Aitken, Ryan Ghita and Marc Clancy
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:30
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  20. Ghrelin, a gastric orexigenic peptide, and body mass index (BMI) are known as inversely associated to each other and are both linked to cardiovascular (CV) risk and mortality in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) ...

    Authors: Ilia Beberashvili, Inna Sinuani, Ada Azar, Gregory Shapiro, Leonid Feldman, Keren Doenyas-Barak, Kobi Stav and Shai Efrati
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:29
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  21. The majority of incident hemodialysis (HD) patients initiate dialysis via catheters. We sought to identify factors associated with initiating hemodialysis with a functioning arterio-venous (AV) access.

    Authors: Narender Goel, Caroline Kwon, Teena P. Zachariah, Michael Broker, Vaughn W. Folkert, Carolyn Bauer and Michal L. Melamed
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:28
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  22. Mounting evidence indicated that the elevated serum uric acid level was associated with an increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI). Our goal was to systematically evaluate the correlation of serum uric aci...

    Authors: Xialian Xu, Jiachang Hu, Nana Song, Rongyi Chen, Ting Zhang and Xiaoqiang Ding
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:27
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  23. Drug dosing errors result in adverse patient outcomes and are more common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). As internists treat the majority of patients with CKD, we study if Internal Medicine hou...

    Authors: Sikander Surana, Neeru Kumar, Amita Vasudeva, Gulvahid Shaikh, Kenar D. Jhaveri, Hitesh Shah, Deepa Malieckal, Joshua Fogel, Gurwinder Sidhu and Sofia Rubinstein
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:26
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  25. Preclinical studies demonstrate renal proximal tubular injury after administration of some intravenous iron preparations but clinical data on renal effects of intravenous iron are sparse.

    Authors: Iain C. Macdougall, Andreas H. Bock, Fernando Carrera, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Carlo Gaillard, David Van Wyck, Yvonne Meier, Sylvain Larroque and Simon D. Roger
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:24
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  26. Although a high incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is observed among chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients in developed countries, limited information is available about CVD prevalence and risk factors ...

    Authors: Jun Yuan, Xin-Rong Zou, Si-Ping Han, Hong Cheng, Lan Wang, Jin-Wei Wang, Lu-Xia Zhang, Ming-Hui Zhao and Xiao-Qin Wang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:23
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  27. In patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), malnutrition may develop as renal function declines and the abdominal organs become enlarged. We investigated the relationship of intra-ab...

    Authors: Hyunjin Ryu, Hyosang Kim, Hayne Cho Park, Hyunsuk Kim, Eun Jin Cho, Kyu-Beck Lee, Wookyung Chung, Kook-Hwan Oh, Jeong Yeon Cho, Young-Hwan Hwang and Curie Ahn
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:22
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  28. Epidemiological data on Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) from low-income countries is sparse. The aim of this study was to establish the incidence, severity, aetiology, and outcomes of community-acquired AKI in Malawi.

    Authors: Rhys D. R. Evans, Ulla Hemmilä, Alison Craik, Mwayi Mtekateka, Fergus Hamilton, Zuze Kawale, Christopher J. Kirwan, Hamish Dobbie and Gavin Dreyer
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:21
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  29. Hip fracture is a common injury in older people with a high rate of postoperative morbidity and mortality. This patient group is also at high risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD),...

    Authors: Christine J. Porter, Iain K. Moppett, Irene Juurlink, Jessica Nightingale, Christopher G. Moran and Mark A. J. Devonald
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:20
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  30. KDOQI guideline suggests that nutritional vitamin D should be supplemented in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients who have vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency. However, there are scarce data regarding the add...

    Authors: Paweena Susantitaphong, Siriwan Nakwan, Sadudee Peerapornratana, Khajohn Tiranathanagul, Pisut Katavetin, Nattachai Srisawat, Kearkiat Praditpornsilpa and Somchai Eiam-Ong
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:19
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  31. Patients with unplanned dialysis start (UPS) have worse clinical outcomes than non-UPS patients, and receive peritoneal dialysis (PD) less frequently. In the OPTiONS study of UPS patients, an educational progr...

    Authors: Anna Machowska, Mark Dominik Alscher, Satyanarayana Reddy Vanga, Michael Koch, Michael Aarup, Abdul Rashid Qureshi, Bengt Lindholm and Peter Rutherford
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:18
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  32. People with chronic kidney disease (CKD) must self-manage their illness to assist with slowing disease-progression, but this is a complex task requiring support from healthcare professionals. Despite the estab...

    Authors: Kathryn Havas, Clint Douglas and Ann Bonner
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:17
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  33. An epidemic of Mesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN) is killing thousands of agricultural workers along the Pacific coast of Central America, but the natural history and aetiology of the disease remain poorly underst...

    Authors: Marvin González-Quiroz, Armando Camacho, Dorien Faber, Aurora Aragón, Catharina Wesseling, Jason Glaser, Jennifer Le Blond, Liam Smeeth, Dorothea Nitsch, Neil Pearce and Ben Caplin
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:16
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  36. Age and number of recipients in need of kidney re-transplantation are increasing. Re-transplantation practices and outcomes in elderly recipients are not previously explored. We aimed to retrospectively evalua...

    Authors: Kristian Heldal, Anders Hartmann, Kjersti Lønning, Torbjørn Leivestad, Anna V. Reisæter, Pål-Dag Line, Hallvard Holdaas and Karsten Midtvedt
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:13
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  37. Hungry bone syndrome (HBS) is an important postoperative complication after parathyroidectomy for severe secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT). There is, however, little data in the literature on its detailed c...

    Authors: Lo-Yi Ho, Ping-Nam Wong, Ho-Kwan Sin, Yuk-Yi Wong, Kwok-Chi Lo, Shuk-Fan Chan, Man-Wai Lo, Kin-Yee Lo, Siu-Ka Mak and Andrew Kui-Man Wong
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:12
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  38. There were few related studies aiming to severe IgA nephropathy (IgAN) which could progress rapidly to end stage renal disease (ESRD) within ten years. To find valuable clinical or pathological factors and pro...

    Authors: Danhua Shu, Feifei Xu, Zhen Su, Ji Zhang, Chaosheng Chen, Jianna Zhang, Xiaokai Ding, Yinqiu Lv, Haixia Lin and Peipei Huang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:11
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  39. An early sepsis-induced acute kidney injury (sepsis-AKI) biomarker is currently in needed. Urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (uNGAL) is a candidate of sepsis-AKI biomarker but with different c...

    Authors: Tanaporn Panich, Wiwat Chancharoenthana, Poorichaya Somparn, Jiraphorn Issara-Amphorn, Nattiya Hirankarn and Asada Leelahavanichkul
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:10
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  40. Reducing readmissions is an international priority in healthcare. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common, serious and also a global concern. This analysis evaluates AKI as a candidate risk factor for unplanned re...

    Authors: Simon Sawhney, Angharad Marks, Nick Fluck, David J. McLernon, Gordon J. Prescott and Corri Black
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:9
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  41. Major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular event (MACCE) is one of most common complications of hemodialysis patients. Heart rate variability (HRV) is the predictor of death in heart disease patients. However, ...

    Authors: Nanami Kida, Yoshiharu Tsubakihara, Hirota Kida, Shunro Ageta, Makoto Arai, Yoshinosuke Hamada and Nariaki Matsuura
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:8
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  42. The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in St. Kitts and Nevis, islands of the West Indies, is unknown. We sought to determine estimates of CKD and its risk factors (e.g. diabetes, hypertension and obes...

    Authors: Deidra C. Crews, Kirk N. Campbell, Yang Liu, Odell Bussue, Ingrid Dawkins and Bessie A. Young
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:7
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  43. Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a devastating disease with significant morbidity and mortality. Its genetic heterogeneity impacts its clinical presentation, progress, and outcome, and there is no ...

    Authors: Nesrin Besbas, Bora Gulhan, Oguz Soylemezoglu, Z. Birsin Ozcakar, Emine Korkmaz, Mutlu Hayran and Fatih Ozaltin
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:6
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  44. Haemodialysis (HD) patients suffer from an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Skin autofluorescence (SAF) is a strong marker for CVD. SAF indirectly measures tissue advanced glycation end products...

    Authors: Bernd Ramsauer, Gerwin Erik Engels, Reindert Graaff, Aleksandar Sikole, Stefan Arsov and Bernd Stegmayr
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:5
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  45. The increasing prevalence of treated end-stage renal disease and low transplant rates in Africa leads to longer durations on dialysis. Dialysis should not only be aimed at prolonging lives but also improve qua...

    Authors: Elliot K. Tannor, Elize Archer, Kenneth Kapembwa, Susan C. van Schalkwyk and M. Razeen Davids
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:4
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  46. Previous studies have documented the high costs of non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD) but out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures remain poorly explored. This study described total direct and ou...

    Authors: Christina Small, Holly J. Kramer, Karen A. Griffin, Kavitha Vellanki, David J. Leehey, Vinod K. Bansal and Talar W. Markossian
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:3
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  47. The KDIGO Clinical Practice Guidelines for Glomerulonephritis recommended tacrolimus as an alternative regimen for the initial therapy for Idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN), however, large observational ...

    Authors: Hua-Zhang Qin, Lei Liu, Shao-Shan Liang, Jing-Song Shi, Chun-Xia Zheng, Qing Hou, Ying-Hui Lu and Wei-Bo Le
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:2
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  48. There is an increasing recognition of epidemics of primarily tubular-interstitial chronic kidney disease (CKD) clustering in agricultural communities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Although it is...

    Authors: Ben Caplin, Kristina Jakobsson, Jason Glaser, Dorothea Nitsch, Vivekanand Jha, Ajay Singh, Ricardo Correa-Rotter and Neil Pearce
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2017 18:1
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  49. End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients receiving dialysis are at particular risk for infection. We assessed the clinical and economic burden of pneumonia in a population of Medicare-enrolled ESRD patients wit...

    Authors: Scott Sibbel, Reiko Sato, Abigail Hunt, Wendy Turenne and Steven M. Brunelli
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2016 17:199
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  50. There is no single, gold-standard, low-protein diet (LPD) for CKD patients; the best compliance is probably obtained by personalization. This study tests the hypothesis that a multiple choice diet network allo...

    Authors: Giorgina Barbara Piccoli, Marta Nazha, Irene Capizzi, Federica Neve Vigotti, Stefania Scognamiglio, Valentina Consiglio, Elena Mongilardi, Marilisa Bilocati, Paolo Avagnina and Elisabetta Versino
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2016 17:197
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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