Renal & Vascular Diseases

Angiogenic response following renal ischemia reperfusion injury: New players - Abstract

Ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury can negatively influence the short- and long-term outcomes of kidney transplantation because it promotes acute tubular necrosis and tissue scarring and activates innate alloimmunity.

Completely intracorporeal robotic renal autotransplantation - Abstract

PURPOSE: To describe the first report of a technique for performing completely intracorporeal renal autotransplantation with both the donor nephrectomy and transplantation performed minimally-invasively without ever extracting the kidney.

Does the KDIGO CKD risk stratification based on GFR and proteinuria predict kidney graft failure? - Abstract

PURPOSE: The 2012 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) guidelines on chronic kidney disease (CKD) introduced risk classes for adverse outcome based on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and albuminuria categories (low-LR, moderately-MR, high-HR, very high risk-VHR).

Risk of chronic and end-stage kidney disease in people with nephrolithiasis - Abstract

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: To examine kidney stone disease as a potential risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD), end-stage kidney disease and treatment with dialysis (ESKD).

Management of urologic complications in renal transplantation: A single-center experience - Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Ureterovesical complications subsequent to renal transplantation are associated with a high morbidity leading to graft loss or even death.

Do multiple ureteroscopies alter long term renal function? A study using estimated glomerular filtration rate - Abstract

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Though considered standard of care for symptomatic urolithiasis, few data are available evaluating the effects of multiple ureteroscopic laser lithotripsies (URS) on long term renal function.

Association between allopurinol and mortality among Japanese hemodialysis patients: Results from the DOPPS - Abstract

PURPOSE: Allopurinol, for treating hyperuricemia, is associated with lower mortality among hyperuricemic patients without chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Renal transplantation in augmented bladders - Abstract

Not many years ago, children with congenital abnormalities of the lower urinary tract or with bladder dysfunction were denied renal transplantation because they were considered very high-risk recipients.

Laparoscopic nephrectomy for polycystic kidneys: Principles and results - Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the feasibility and morbidity of laparoscopic nephrectomy in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPK).

Pulmonary toxicity in a renal transplant recipient treated with amiodarone and everolimus: A case of hypothetical synergy and a proposal for a screening protocol - Abstract

Pneumotoxic drugs like amiodarone and m-TOR inhibitors (m-TORi) may be administered contemporaneously in therapy for patients who had renal transplants.

Case of emphysematous pyelonephritis in kidney allograft: Conservative treatment - Abstract

Emphysematous pyelonephritis is an acute necrotizing infection with gas in the kidney and perinephric space that carries a bad prognosis.

Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: The role in the treatment of type 1 diabetes and end-stage renal disease - Abstract

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most common and debilitating diseases to affect the world.

Single-stage renal transplantation-urinary diversion: A novel surgical approach - Abstract

INTRODUCTION: This article reports outcomes of 2 patients who received a single-stage renal transplantation and concomitant urinary-diversion procedure.

A novel method for salvage of malfunctioning peritoneal dialysis catheter - Abstract

CONTEXT: Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) has been widely used as an effective therapy in the management of patients with end-stage renal disease.

Monocyte count/HDL cholesterol ratio and cardiovascular events in patients with chronic kidney disease - Abstract

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Previous studies showed that renal dysfunction was associated with both a reduction in serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol concentration and increased circulating monocyte count.

Long-term renal functional outcomes ofminimally invasive partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma - Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Preservation of renal function is the major benefit of partial over radical nephrectomy.

Effects of insulin resistance on left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with CKD stage 1-3 - Abstract

BACKGROUND: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) existed in patients with early stage chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Radiographical resolution of renal lymphangiomatosis following cardiac transplantation - Abstract

Renal lymphangiomatosis is a disease characterized by abnormal formation of perirenal lymphatic vessels that fail to communicate with other retroperitoneal lymphatics; as a result, perirenal lymphatics dilate and form cysts.

Short-term survival in renal transplantation from brain-death donors: Focusing on recipients with diabetes background - Abstract

Purpose:  Our aim was to evaluate short term survival rates in renal transplant recipients from deceased donors, while focusing on recipients with diabetes mellitus background.

Removal of Foley catheters in live donor kidney transplant recipients on postoperative day 1 does not increase the incidence of urine leaks - Abstract

Catheterization of the urinary bladder during kidney transplantation is essential.