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  1. Informal caregivers (i.e. family and friends) provide essential support to people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Many informal caregivers experience mental health problems such as anxiety and depression du...

    Authors: Chelsea Coumoundouros, Paul Farrand, Alexander Hamilton, Louise von Essen, Robbert Sanderman and Joanne Woodford
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2023 24:4
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  2. We aimed to investigate the renal prognosis of patients with idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) complicated with steroid-induced diabetes mellitus (SIDM), the association of high-density lipoprotein cholester...

    Authors: Jiarong Li, Di Hui, Liu Yang, Jinhua Hou and Honglang Xie
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2023 24:2
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  3. The improvement of anaemia over time by erythropoiesis stimulating agent (ESA) is associated with better survival in haemodialysis patients. We previously reported that erythrocyte creatine content, a marker o...

    Authors: Ohki Hayashi, Seishi Nakamura, Tetsuro Sugiura, Shun Hasegawa, Yoshiaki Tsuka, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Sanae Kikuchi, Koichiro Matsumura, Toshika Okumiya, Masato Baden and Ichiro Shiojima
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2023 24:1
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  5. The purpose of this manuscript is to introduce reserve and resilience as novel concepts in chronic kidney disease (CKD) research and present baseline data from a unique prospective cohort study designed to cha...

    Authors: C. Barrett Bowling, Maren K. Olsen, Theodore S. Z. Berkowitz, Battista Smith, Breana Floyd, Nadya Majette, Amy L. Miles, Steven D. Crowley, Virginia Wang, Matthew L. Maciejewski and Heather E. Whitson
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:418
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  7. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major risk factor for contrast induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) in chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) patients undergoing coronary catheterization. We aimed to evaluate the e...

    Authors: Mohamed abo Hamila, Helmy El Ghawaby, Mohamed Zaki, Mohamed Soliman and Khaled Gabr
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:416
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  8. Platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) has been used as a potential biomarker of inflammation-related diseases, but its role in the peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis (PDRP) is still uncertain. This study was...

    Authors: Ning Su, Yijia Zheng, Xing Zhang, Xingming Tang, Li-wen Tang, Qinqin Wang, Xingyu Chen, Xiaoyang Wang, Yueqiang Wen, Xiaoran Feng, Qian Zhou, Jiafan Zhou, Yafang Li and Sijia Shang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:415
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  9. Hemodialysis clinic patient social networks may reinforce positive and negative attitudes towards kidney transplantation. We examined whether a patient’s position within the hemodialysis clinic social network ...

    Authors: Rafaa Aljurbua, Avrum Gillespie and Zoran Obradovic
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:414
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  10. Mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (MsPGN) accounts for a main cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD), chronic renal failure and uremia. This paper aimed to examine the effect of Ntrk1 on MsPGN developm...

    Authors: Xiongjun Dong and Yingchun Tang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:413
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  11. The current classification for acute kidney injury (AKI) according to the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) criteria integrates both serum creatinine (SCr) and urine output (UO). Most reports o...

    Authors: Omar Murad, Daniel F Orjuela Cruz, Aliza Goldman, Tal Stern and Peter Vernon van Heerden
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:412
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  12. Acidosis frequently occurs in severe acute kidney injury (AKI), and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) can control this pathologic condition. Nevertheless, acidosis may be aggravated; thus, monitoring...

    Authors: Jinwoo Lee, Seong Geun Kim, Donghwan Yun, Min Woo Kang, Yong Chul Kim, Dong Ki Kim, Kook-Hwan Oh, Kwon Wook Joo, Yon Su Kim, Ho Seok Koo and Seung Seok Han
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:411
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  13. Fluid assessment is challenging, and fluid overload poses a significant problem among dialysis patients, with pulmonary oedema being the most serious consequence. Our study aims to develop a simple objective f...

    Authors: Grace Feng Ling Tan, Tiehua Du, Justin Shuang Liu, Chung Cheen Chai, Chan Maung Nyein and Allen Yan Lun Liu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:410
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  14. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is linked to high morbidity and mortality and increased hospitalization burden. If appropriately managed in the outpatient setting, ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) do ...

    Authors: Devashri Prabhudesai, James Davis, John J. Chen and Eunjung Lim
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:409
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  15. Peritonitis is one of the major complications of peritoneal dialysis. The most common cause of peritonitis is infection at the catheter exit site. This study aimed to determine the effect of propolis on the in...

    Authors: Lila Moghiseh, Monir Nobahar, Raheb Ghorbani and Shiva Sirafian
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:408
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  16. In recent years, it has been reported that diabetic patients tend to have a lower zinc intake due to unbalanced diet accompanying changes in lifestyle habits. We investigated serum zinc concentration in diabet...

    Authors: Mitsunobu Kubota, Shizuka Matsuda, Mimu Matsuda, Kazuki Yamamoto and Yoko Yoshii
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:407
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  17. Introducing a de-novo home haemodialysis (HHD) program often raises safety concerns as errors could potentially lead to serious adverse events. Despite the complexity of performing haemodialysis at home withou...

    Authors: Sabrina-Wong-Peixin Haroon, Titus-Wai-Leong Lau, Gan Liang Tan, Eugene-Hern Choon Liu, Soh Heng Hui, Siao Luan Lim, Diana Santos, Robyn Hodgson, Lindsay Taylor, Jia Neng Tan and Andrew Davenport
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:406
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  18. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is independently associated with morbidity and mortality in a wide range of surgical settings. Nowadays, with the increasing use of electronic health records (EHR), advances in patien...

    Authors: Hanfei Zhang, Amanda Y. Wang, Shukun Wu, Johnathan Ngo, Yunlin Feng, Xin He, Yingfeng Zhang, Xingwei Wu and Daqing Hong
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:405
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  22. Lipid accumulation product (LAP) and visceral adiposity index (VAI) are novel, non-imaging markers of visceral adiposity that are calculated by using body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and serum l...

    Authors: Alexander L. Bullen, Ronit Katz, Ujjala Kumar, Orlando M. Gutierrez, Mark J. Sarnak, Holly J. Kramer, Michael G. Shlipak, Joachim H. Ix, Suzanne E. Judd, Mary Cushman and Pranav S. Garimella
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:401
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  23. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare and life-threatening thrombotic microangiopathy characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, severe thrombocytopenia, and organ ischemia. It is relate...

    Authors: Shuqin Mei, Yun Feng, Linlin Cui, Jing Chen, Zhiguo Mao, Xuezhi Zhao, Changlin Mei and Yixin Qian
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:400
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  24. This study assessed the predictive value of uric acid (UA) for contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) who underwent coronary angiography (CAG). A nomogra...

    Authors: Haixia Tang, Haoying Chen, Zuolin Li, Shengchun Xu, Gaoliang Yan, Chengchun Tang and Hong Liu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:399
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  27. Proliferative glomerulonephritis with monoclonal immunoglobulin G (IgG) deposits (PGNMID) is a rare monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance with dense deposits of monoclonal immunoglobulin.

    Authors: Daisuke Ito, Yuriko Shiozaki, Yoshitaka Shimizu, Yumiko Suzuki, Asami Takeda and Taro Misaki
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:396
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  28. Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are common in end-stage kidney disease. Mounting evidence indicates that the intestine plays an important role in the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy (IgAN). However, no studies ...

    Authors: Jussi T. Pohjonen, Katri M. Kaukinen, Martti J. Metso, Rakel KK. Nurmi, Heini SA. Huhtala, Ilkka H. Pörsti, Jukka T. Mustonen and Satu M. Mäkelä
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:395
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  29. Social inequalities in health are responsible for disparities in access to the kidney transplant waiting list (KTWL). The perception of disparities by nephrologists has consequences for the registration on the...

    Authors: Lucile Paris, Eve Calvar, Rémy Morello, Angélique Lecouf, Mathilde Beaumier, Thierry Lobbedez and Valérie Châtelet
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:394
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  30. Hemodialysis (HD) is the most important renal replacement therapy for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). Systemic inflammation is a risk factor of mortality in HD patients. Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte...

    Authors: Jiaxian Liao, Dongyan Wei, Chenghui Sun, Yuqi Yang, Yinxia Wei and Xinhui Liu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:393
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  31. Acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill patients has poor renal outcome with high mortality. Changes in intra-renal microcirculation and tissue oxygenation are currently considered essential pathophysiolog...

    Authors: Xiangyu Wang, Luzeng Chen and Tao Su
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:392
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  32. Disordered Treg counts and function have been observed in patients with SARS-Cov-2 and are thought to contribute to disease severity. In hemodialysis patients, scarce data are available on the Treg response to...

    Authors: Emad Samaan, Marwa O Elmaria, Doaa Khedr, Tamer Gaber, Ahmed G Elsayed, Ragy N Shenouda, Hend Gamal, Doaa Shahin, Nashwa K Abousamra and Rasha Shemies
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:391
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  33. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) may play a pathogenic role in several forms of immune complex glomerulonephritis (GN). We present a patient whose initial clinical presentation instilled suspicion of HCV-related renal ...

    Authors: Anna Zito, Antonio De Pascalis, Vincenzo Montinaro, Paolo Ria, Maria Caterina Carbonara, Emiliana Ferramosca and Marcello Napoli
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:390
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  34. Observational studies have shown home hemodialysis (HHD) to be associated with better survival than facility hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD). Patients on HHD have reported higher quality of life...

    Authors: Zhaohui Ni, Yijun Zhou, Renhua Lu, Jianxiao Shen, Leyi Gu, Shan Mou, Li Zhao, Haifen Zhang, Bin Zhang, Yan Fang, Wei Fang, Qin Wang, Weiming Zhang, Jidong Zhang and Weiping Li
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:389
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  35. Adult studies have demonstrated potential harm from resuscitation with 0.9% sodium chloride (0.9%NaCl), resulting in increased utilization of balanced crystalloids like lactated ringers (LR). The sodium and po...

    Authors: Natalja L. Stanski, Katja M. Gist, Kaci Pickett, John T. Brinton, Jennifer Sadlowski, Hector R. Wong, Peter Mourani, Danielle E. Soranno, Jessica Kendrick and Erin K. Stenson
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:388
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  36. The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is increasing continuously as a result of the dramatic growth in the prevalence of two main causes of ESKD which are diabetes ...

    Authors: Noha H. Helmy, Amal Hussein, Marwa Kamal, Osama El Minshawy and Engy A. Wahsh
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:387
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  37. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in the setting of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has important prognostic and therapeutic consequences. We estimated the prevalence of PAH among patients with ESRD treated...

    Authors: Abdullah K. Alhwiesh, Ibrahiem Saeed Abdul-Rahman, Abdullah Alshehri, Amani Alhwiesh, Mahmoud Elnokeety, Syed Essam, Mohamad Sakr, Nadia Al-Oudah, Abdulla Abdulrahman, Abdelgalil Moaz Mohammed, Hany Mansour, Tamer El-Salamoni, Nehad Al-Oudah, Lamees Alayoobi, Hend Aljenaidi, Ali Al-Harbi…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:386
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  38. Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) is the main tertiary hospital that has performed more than 600 biopsies since its establishment. Although Indigenous people in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) has the highest ra...

    Authors: Kim Ling Goh, Asanga Abeyaratne, Shahid Ullah, Chris Rissel and Kelum Priyadarshana
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:385
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  39. There is growing evidence that self‐management behaviour can improve outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, no measures are available in Malay to effectively assess the self-manageme...

    Authors: Ayat Ali Al Sawad, Soo Kun Lim, Li Yoong Tang, Aneesa Abdul Rashid and Boon-How Chew
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:384
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  40. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are widely used for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders such as peptic ulcer disease and dyspepsia. However, several studies have suggested that PPI use increases the risk...

    Authors: Keiko Ikuta, Shunsaku Nakagawa, Chinami Yamawaki, Kotaro Itohara, Daiki Hira, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Yonezawa, Takayuki Nakagawa, Minoru Sakuragi, Noriaki Sato, Eiichiro Uchino, Motoko Yanagita and Tomohiro Terada
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:383
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  41. Fibronectin glomerulopathy is a rare, familial glomerular disease characterized by mesangial fibronectin deposition in the glomeruli. It is caused by the genetic defect in fibronectin and does not involve the ...

    Authors: Xiaoli Li, Xueting Qi, Zhigang Ma and Wenhui Huang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:382
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  42. Lupus nephropathy (LN) occurs in approximately 50% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and 20% of them will eventually progress into end-stage renal disease (ESRD). A clinical tool predicting ...

    Authors: Jakub Stojanowski, Andrzej Konieczny, Klaudia Rydzyńska, Izabela Kasenberg, Aleksandra Mikołajczak, Tomasz Gołębiowski, Magdalena Krajewska and Mariusz Kusztal
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:381
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  44. Changes in renal perfusion may play a pathophysiological role in hypertension and kidney disease, however to date, no method for renal blood flow (RBF) determination in humans has been implemented in clinical ...

    Authors: Stine Sundgaard Langaa, Frank Holden Mose, Claire Anne Fynbo, Jørn Theil and Jesper Nørgaard Bech
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:379
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  45. Chronic kidney disease (CKD), which affects about 10% of global population, has become a global public health crisis in recent decades. It is well recognized that health information dissemination could change ...

    Authors: Lan Yao, Yubao Li, Qinglou Lian, Junjun Sun, Shuyin Zhao and Pei Wang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:378
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  46. The utility of dipstick proteinuria for predicting microalbuminuria in non-diabetic lifestyle-related diseases compared with the urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (uPCR) and the effect of dipstick proteinuria ...

    Authors: Makoto Ogi, Takuya Seto and Yoshinori Wakabayashi
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:377
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  47. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) and Hypertension (HTN) are frequently associated with adverse outcomes. We aimed to estimate the impact of a prior diagnosis of T2D and/or HTN on clinical ch...

    Authors: Oriol Cunillera-Puértolas, David Vizcaya, M. Jesús Cerain-Herrero, Neus Gil-Terrón, Silvia Cobo-Guerrero and Betlem Salvador-González
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:376
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  48. Vascular calcification (VC) is suggested to be associated with serum klotho levels in patients with maintenance hemodialysis (MHD), whereas there is a lack of reports on the associations of VC status in whole ...

    Authors: Yan Lin, Jiayuan Huang, Meiyang Zhou, Cuiping Pan, Aiqin Shan and Canxin Zhou
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:374
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  49. Anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease is characterized by crescentic necrotizing glomerulonephritis, with linear deposits of immunoglobulin G (IgG) in the GBM. Classic anti-GBM disease is clinic...

    Authors: Ryo Tamura, Toshiki Doi, Shuma Hirashio, Kensuke Sasaki, Yukinari Masuda, Akira Shimizu and Takao Masaki
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:373
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  50. A functioning vascular access (VA) is crucial to providing adequate hemodialysis (HD) and considered a critically important outcome by patients and healthcare professionals. A validated, patient-important outc...

    Authors: Andrea K. Viecelli, Armando Teixeira-Pinto, Andrea Valks, Richard Baer, Roy Cherian, Pietro E. Cippà, Jonathan C. Craig, Ranil DeSilva, Allison Jaure, David W. Johnson, Charani Kiriwandeniya, Pascal Kopperschmidt, Wen-J Liu, Timmy Lee, Charmaine Lok, Krishan Madhan…
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2022 23:372
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:
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