LncRNA CASC15 inhibition relieves renal fibrosis in diabetic nephropathy through down-regulating SP-A by sponging to miR-424 by Li Hui, Hao Jian, Yu Weimin

“…Study has demonstrated the abnormal expression and role of lncRNA CASC15 in diabetes patients with chronic renal failure. However, its role in diabetes nephropathy (DN) is still unclear. …”
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Hemoadsorption during Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Patients with Endocarditis Undergoing Valve Surgery: A Retrospective Single-Center Study by David Santer, Jules Miazza, Luca Koechlin, Brigitta Gahl, Bejtush Rrahmani, Alexa Hollinger, Friedrich S. Eckstein, Martin Siegemund, Oliver T. Reuthebuch

“…Results: In-hospital mortality, major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events and postoperative renal failure were similar in both groups. Demand for norepinephrine (88.4 vs. 52.8%; <i>p</i> = 0.001), milrinone (42.2 vs. 17.2%; <i>p</i> = 0.046), red blood cell concentrates (65.2 vs. 30.6%; <i>p</i> = 0.003), and platelets (HA vs. …”
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Vascular Diseases in PNH by Hanan Hamed

“…Symptoms are therefore often non-specific, ranging from loss of vision (due to retinal thrombosis), headache and nausea/vomiting (due to cerebral thrombosis), pulmonary hypertension (due to pulmonary embolism), anaemia, through to pain and swelling in the lower extremities (due to deep vein thrombosis), renal failure and other symptoms affecting different systems6 . …”
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Frequency of Hypothyroidism among Chronic Kidney Disease in a Tertiary Care Hospital by Farzana Adnan Sheikh, Syed Tajammul Ali, Sidra Rashid, Khadijah Abid

“…All patients with chronic renal failure who were older than 18 years and of either gender were enrolled in the study. …”
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Recurrent Urolithiasis Revealing Primary Hyperparathyroidism in a Nephrology Department by Hajji Meriam, Hayet Kaaroud, Rahma Karray, Fethi Ben Hamida, Kahena Bouzid, Ezzeddine Abderrahim

“…The risk of progression to chronic renal failure and the cost of treatment are the most important issues. …”
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Live donor hepatectomy for liver transplantation in Egypt: Lessons learned by Emad Kamel, Mohamed Abdullah, Ashraf Hassanin, Nirmeen Fayed, Fatma Ahmed, Hossam Soliman, Osama Hegazi, Yasmine Abd El Salam, Magdy Khalil, Khaled Yassen, Ibrahim Marwan, Koichi Tanaka, Khaled AboElla, Tarek Ibrahim

“…The other donor had serious intraoperative bleeding and developed postoperative PVT and liver and renal failure. He died after 12 days despite intensive treatment. …”
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The Effect of Dracocephalum Kotschyi Hydroalcoholic Extract on Biochemical and Hematological Parameters in Rat by Amirmahdi Safary, Fouzieh Zadhoush, Afsaneh Yegdaneh, Ali Hosseini-Sharifabad, Ardeshir Talebi, Hassan Sadraei

“…However, as long as the long term effect of the extract on liver and renal function is not fully understood, consumption of D. kotschyi in patients with hepatic or renal failure is not recommended.…”
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Case report: Blood purification effectively relieves multiple system failure in patient with rabies by Daibin Kuang, Ming Luo, Jiabao Chen, Congmin Liang, Ziwei Cai, Zeqiang Yuan, Zhuandi Zhou, Jialong Chen, Chunlai Fu

“…Hemodialysis combined with antiviral therapy and intensive care unit (ICU) treatment can effectively relieve circulatory failure, respiratory failure, and renal failure. Finally, she died of brain death on the 34th day of admission. …”
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Dynamics of sickness rate in 15–17- year-old girls in the Russian Federation by M. N. Banteva, E. M. Manoshkina, E. N. Matveev

“…Having analyzed the chronization index the authors revealed its maximum growth for congenital anomalies (malformations; by 31,1%) and neoplasms (by 23,0%), and for certain nosologies: menstrual disorders (5,8 times) and renal failure (4,2 times).Conclusion. The health of children, and especially adolescents, determines the national health in the nearest future; therefore, its preservation and improvement require thorough attention.…”
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Sickle cell trait and multisystem trauma: an unaddressed urgent knowledge gap by Frazer A Tessema, Gabrielle Lapping-Carr, Murtala I Affini, Isaiah K Selkridge, Akosua Y Oppong, Tanisha A Jones, Tanya Zakrison

“…In light of our findings, we offer specific calls to action for the trauma surgery research community: (1) consider testing for SCT in trauma patients that have unexpected complications, particularly venous thromboembolism, rhabdomyolysis, or renal failure and (2) support research to understand how SCT impacts multisystem trauma outcomes. …”
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Renal outcomes according to renal replacement therapy modality and treatment protocol in the ATN and RENAL trials by Thummaporn Naorungroj, Ary Serpa Neto, Amanda Wang, Martin Gallagher, Rinaldo Bellomo

“…This study explored whether RRT modality and treatment protocol affected RRT dependence in the ‘Randomized Evaluation of Normal versus Augmented Level of RRT’ and the ‘Acute Renal Failure Trial Network’ (ATN) trials. Methods Primary outcome was 28-day RRT dependence. …”
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Rare IFT140-Associated Phenotype of Cranioectodermal Dysplasia and Features of Diagnostic Journey in Patients with Suspected Ciliopathies by Margarita Sharova, Tatyana Markova, Maria Sumina, Marina Petukhova, Maria Bulakh, Oxana Ryzhkova, Tatyana Nagornova, Sofya Ionova, Andrey Marakhonov, Elena Dadali, Sergey Kutsev

“…In comparison to other IFT140-cranioectodermal patients, our proband had similar skeletal features among with early onset end-stage renal failure that required kidney transplantation but did not have common ophthalmological features such as retinopathy, optic nerve atrophy, or nystagmus. …”
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Changing pattern of severe manifestations of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria: A retrospective study from Bikaner, India by Jyoti Acharya, Dharmesh Harwani

“…While in the same year, P. vivax associated clinical spectrum of complications were observed to be dominated by thrombocytopenia (26.47%) followed by jaundice (25.00%), MODS (14.70%), severe anemia (5.88%), cerebral malaria (5.88%), renal failure (4.41%), bleeding manifestation (2.45%), shock (0.98%) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) (0.49%). …”
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Prevalence and Determinants of Hypothyroidism in Patients on Routine Hemodialysis in Somalia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Adani AA, Siyad MO, Adan AM, Jeele MOO

“…Diabetic kidney disease was the most common cause of renal failure in 138 patients (45.84%) followed by hypertensive kidney disease 100 (33.22%). …”
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Renal replacement therapy in the treatment and prevention of contrastinduced nephropathy after cardiovascular surgery by E. A. Tabakyan, A. E. Komlev, A. A. Margolina, R. S. Akchurin

“…To analyse the effectiveness of hemofiltration and high-volume hemodialysis for acute renal failure (ARF) prevention and treatment after cardiovascular surgery and contrast media (CM) use. …”
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The Impact of “Emergency-only” Hemodialysis on Hospital Cost and Resource Utilization by Farina Shafqat, Shamie Das, Matthew A. Wheatley, Lauren Kasper, Sarah Johnson, Stephen R. Pitts, Michael A. Ross

“…All patients had emergency and/or observation visits, renal failure codes (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Rev, Clinical Modification), emergency HD procedure codes, and an insurance status of “self-pay.” …”
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Mortality in patients with normal left ventricular function requiring emergency VA-ECMO for postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock due to coronary malperfusion. by Jagdip Kang, Mateo Marin-Cuartas, Anna Flo Forner, Priya R Menon, André Ginther, Diyar Saaed, Suzanne de Waha, Massimiliano Meineri, Jörg Ender, Michael A Borger

“…Under VA-ECMO therapy, a complication composite outcome of bleeding, re-exploration for bleeding, acute renal failure, acute liver failure, and sepsis occurred in 51 (86.4%) patients. …”
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Effect of external therapies of traditional Chinese medicine on constipation in patients with CRF: A meta-analysis. by Yu Wu, Qisu Ying, Yajing He, Xiangcheng Xie, Xiao Yuan, Ming Wang, Xiao Fei, Xiu Yang

“…<h4>Objective</h4>The purpose of this study was to evaluate the curative effect of external therapies of traditional Chinese medicine on constipation in patients with chronic renal failure and to provide scientific theoretical basis for clinical practice.…”
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ASSOCIATION OF HLA AND PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES OF BLOOD IN PATIENTS WITH GLOMERULONEPHRITIS by M. Kolesnyk, V. Driyanska, M. Velychko, G. Drannik, O. Petrina

“…The relative risk (RR) to develop chronic renal failure (CRF) is in detection of HLA-10, -29, -30, -41, -51, DR4; attributive risk (AR) - A10. …”
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Projection of new thresholds for hypertension to outpatient clinic patients and impact of risk factors: a cross-sectional study by Umit Aydogan, Yusuf Cetin Doganer, Asli Ebiloglu, Deniz Engin Gok, Ebru Cirpan, Kenan Saglam

“…The participants were patients who were attending the hypertension clinic, who were evaluated using the thresholds of two guidelines, based on cardiovascular risk factors, including age, gender, smoking status, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, obesity, osteoporosis, chronic renal failure and family history of hypertension. RESULTS: After adapting the guidelines to the blood pressure values of our sample, 74.5% (n = 277) of the patients were diagnosed as hypertensive according to the blood pressure classification of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines published in 2018, while 91.1% (n = 339) of the patients were hypertensive according to the new 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines. …”
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