Altered monocyte-derived dendri ...
Background Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are known to have impaired immune function. Dendritic cells (DCs) are the major antigen-pres ...
A case of a 6-year-old girl wit ...
Maki Shimizu , Takanori Sekiguchi , Natsuko Kishi , Aya Goji , Tomoko Takahashi , Hiroko Kozan , Zenichi Sakaguchi , Yukiko Kinoshita , Sato Matsuura ...
Renal amyloidosis caused by apo ...
Although the majority of renal amyloidosis is caused by either acquired monoclonal immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis or reactive systemic amylo ...
Risk factors for metabolic synd ...
Background The prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in renal transplant recipients (RTR) is still under investigation. Methods We performed a cros ...
How to treat patients with syst ...
Background High-dose melphalan and autologous stem cell transplantation (HDM) is an effective treatment for systemic amyloid light chain (AL) amyloi ...
Use of small doses of furosemid ...
Background The objective of the present study was to verify whether chronic renal patients on hemodialysis (HD) with residual diuresis who were usin ...
Nephrotic syndrome and renal fa ...
This report presents a case of nephrotic syndrome and renal failure that developed in a 53-year-old female with metastatic breast carcinoma. She was ...
The relationship between renal ...
Background In patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), renal cysts grow exponentially. Since remaining renal parenchyma h ...
Renal paradoxical embolism in a ...
A 22-year-old woman, who often carried heavy books, was admitted for evaluation of hyperreninemic hypertension. Two months prior to admission, she n ...
Myeloperoxidase-antineutrophil ...
A 60-year-old Japanese man exhibited rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis 10 years after receiving prednisolone therapy for clinically amyopathic ...
A novel compound heterozygous R ...
Bartter syndrome (BS) is a rare renal tubular disorder presenting with hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis, which is classified into five types. KCNJ1 m ...
Renal failure caused by plasma ...
We report on a case of severe renal failure in a 61-year-old female with multiple myeloma (MM). Two months prior to admission, the patient was diagn ...
Japan Renal Biopsy Registry: th ...
Background The Committee for the Standardization of Renal Pathological Diagnosis and the Working Group for Renal Biopsy Database of the Japanese Soc ...
Population pharmacokinetics of ...
Background The aim of the present study was to estimate the population pharmacokinetic parameters of mizoribine in adult recipients of renal transpl ...
Morphological and functional an ...
Renal dysplasia associated with urinary tract obstruction comprises two distinct phenotypes, i.e., multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK) and obstruct ...
A patient undergoing chronic di ...
A 62-year-old female dialysis patient with chronic glomerulonephritis had been receiving hemodialysis therapy for 32 years. In 1985 she underwent a ...
Role of chronic kidney disease ...
The incidence and prevalence of chronic dialysis patients in Japan is increasing linearly and is currently as high as 300 and 2300 per million popul ...
Anti-glomerular basement membra ...
Background Anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti- GBM) disease is thought to be distinct from vasculitis. In contrast, there have been several pap ...
Predictors of acute kidney inju ...
Objective To investigate the incidence, implicating factors and outcome of acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in patients ...
Obesity and chronic kidney dise ...
Background Obesity and decreased kidney function have been shown to be prevalent in Western patients with heart failure; however, whether this pheno ...
Kidney function, albuminuria an ...
Background Mortality and renal or cardiovascular prognosis in living kidney donors (LKDs) has been reported to be as same as the general population; ...
Acquired resistance to rechalle ...
Background Rats that recovered from mild proximal tubule (PT) injury without renal dysfunction by subtoxic insult, developed partial resistance to s ...
Age, gender, and body length ef ...
Background Enzymatic methods have recently been used to measure creatinine (Cr) instead of the Jaffe method. Therefore, it is necessary to determine ...
Measurements of serum cystatin ...
Background In our clinical experience, cystatin C (CysC) concentrations are not as high as expected in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) an ...
Progressive renal failure despi ...
A 37-year-old Japanese man affected by Fabry disease secondary to a novel mutation of Leu311Arg (L311R) in a-galactosidase demonstrated progressive ...