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BMC Nephrology

Issue 1/2022

Content (419 Articles)

Open Access Vesicorenal Reflux Research

Deciphering the mutation spectrum in south Indian children with congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract

Ambili Narikot, Varsha Chhotusing Pardeshi, A. M. Shubha, Arpana Iyengar, Anil Vasudevan

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

The Effect in Renal Function and Vascular Decongestion in Type 1 Cardiorenal Syndrome Treated with Two Strategies of Diuretics, a Pilot Randomized Trial

Jonathan S. Chávez-Iñiguez, Miguel Ibarra-Estrada, Sergio Sánchez-Villaseca, Gregorio Romero-González, Jorge J. Font-Yañez, Andrés De la Torre-Quiroga, Andrés Aranda-G de Quevedo, Alexia Romero-Muñóz, Pablo Maggiani-Aguilera, Gael Chávez-Alonso, Juan Gómez-Fregoso, Guillermo García-García

Open Access Research

Serum Galectin-3 levels and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in maintenance hemodialysis patients: a prospective cohort study

Shuxin Liu, Qijun Wu, Shuang Zhang, Zhihong Wang, Hong Liu, Lanbo Teng, Ping Xiao, Yan Lu, Xuena Wang, Cui Dong, Jia Xiao, Jiayu Zhang

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Employment status at transplant influences ethnic disparities in outcomes after deceased donor kidney transplantation

Jasmin Divers, Sumit Mohan, W. Mark Brown, Stephen O. Pastan, Ajay K. Israni, Robert S. Gaston, Robert Bray, Shahidul Islam, Natalia V. Sakhovskaya, Alejandra M. Mena-Gutierrez, Amber M. Reeves-Daniel, Bruce A. Julian, Barry I. Freedman

Open Access Research

Association of accelerometer-measured physical activity with kidney function in a Japanese population: the DOSANCO Health Study

Sachiko Sasaki, Koshi Nakamura, Shigekazu Ukawa, Emiko Okada, Shiho Amagasa, Shigeru Inoue, Takashi Kimura, Aya Yoshimura, Aya Tanaka, Takafumi Nakagawa, Akihiro Imae, Akiko Tamakoshi

Open Access Heart Failure Research

Prevalence, correlates and in-hospital outcomes of kidney dysfunction in hospitalized patients with heart failure in Buea-Cameroon

Ahmadou Musa Jingi, Clovis Nkoke, Jean Jacques Noubiap, Denis Teuwafeu, Alex T. Mambap, Cyrille Nkouonlack, Ronald Gobina, Debimeh Njume, Anastase Dzudie, Gloria Ashuntantang

Management of hypertension and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system blockade in adults with diabetic kidney disease: Association of British Clinical Diabetologists and the Renal Association UK guideline update 2021

D. Banerjee, P. Winocour, T. A. Chowdhury, P. De, M. Wahba, R. Montero, D. Fogarty, A. H. Frankel, J. Karalliedde, P. B. Mark, D. C. Patel, A. Pokrajac, A. Sharif, S. Zac-Varghese, S. Bain, I. Dasgupta

Open Access Thrombocytopenia Research

Thrombocytopenia predicts mortality in Chinese hemodialysis patients- an analysis of the China DOPPS

Xinju Zhao, Qingyu Niu, Liangying Gan, Fan Fan Hou, Xinling Liang, Zhaohui Ni, Xiaonong Chen, Yuqing Chen, Keith McCullough, Bruce Robinson, Li Zuo

Open Access Research

Association between bone mineral metabolism and vascular calcification in end-stage renal disease

Louise Aaltonen, Niina Koivuviita, Marko Seppänen, Heikki Kröger, Xiaoyu Tong, Eliisa Löyttyniemi, Kaj Metsärinne

Open Access Research

CUBN gene mutations may cause focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) in children

Jing Yang, Yongli Xu, Linxia Deng, Luowen Zhou, Liru Qiu, Yu Zhang, Jianhua Zhou

Open Access Albuminuria Research

The relationship between urinary albumin to creatinine ratio and all-cause mortality in the elderly population in the Chinese community: a 10-year follow-up study

Anhang Zhang, Man Li, Jiaojiao Qiu, Jin Sun, Yongkang Su, Shuang Cai, Qiligeer Bao, Bokai Cheng, Shouyuan Ma, Yan Zhang, Shuxia Wang, Ping Zhu

Open Access Glucocorticoid Case report

To and TAFRO – a cryptic cause of acute renal failure: a case report

N. Shah, T. Davidson, C. Cheung, K. Keung

Open Access Cytokines Research

The effect of BKV reactivation on cytokines behavior in kidney transplanted patients

Zahra Rahimi, Ramin Yaghobi, Afsoon Afshari, Jamshid Roozbeh, Mohammad Javad Mokhtari, Ali Malek Hosseini

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Effect of liver resection-induced increases in hepatic venous pressure gradient on development of postoperative acute kidney injury

Christian Reiterer, Alexander Taschner, Florian Luf, Manfred Hecking, Dietmar Tamandl, Oliver Zotti, Thomas Reiberger, Patrick Starlinger, Mattias Mandorfer, Edith Fleischmann

Open Access Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Case report

Systemic sclerosis complicated with renal thrombotic microangiopathy: a case report and literature review

Weiwei Kong, Yaomin Wang, Huiping Wang, Qin Zhou, Jianghua Chen, Fei Han

Open Access Research

A comparative study of human glomerular basement membrane thickness using direct measurement and orthogonal intercept methods

Débora Leal Viana, Dona Jeanne Alladagbin, Washington L. C. dos-Santos, Claudio Pereira Figueira

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Chronic kidney disease and its health-related factors: a case-control study

Mousa Ghelichi-Ghojogh, Mohammad Fararouei, Mozhgan Seif, Maryam Pakfetrat

Open Access Research

Utilizing the MEST score for prognostic staging in IgA nephropathy

Yngvar Lunde Haaskjold, Rune Bjørneklett, Leif Bostad, Lars Sigurd Bostad, Njål Gjærde Lura, Thomas Knoop

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Graft function and pregnancy outcomes after kidney transplantation

Anke Schwarz, Roland Schmitt, Gunilla Einecke, Frieder Keller, Ulrike Bode, Hermann Haller, Hans Heinrich Guenter

Open Access Vasculitis Case report

A rare case of renal infarction due to heroin and amphetamine abuse: case report

Suhail Khokhar, Daniela Garcia, Rajesh Thirumaran

Open Access Care Research

Mild renal insufficiency and attributable risk of adverse In-hospital outcomes in patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome from the improving care for Cardiovascular Disease in China (CCC) project

Fengbo Xu, Guoqin Wang, Nan Ye, Weijing Bian, Lijiao Yang, Changsheng Ma, Dong Zhao, Jing Liu, Yongchen Hao, Jun Liu, Na Yang, Hong Cheng

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Development of a europium nanoparticles lateral flow immunoassay for NGAL detection in urine and diagnosis of acute kidney injury

Moli Yin, Yuanwang Nie, Hao Liu, Lei Liu, Lu Tang, Yuan Dong, Chuanmin Hu, Huiyan Wang

Open Access Research article

Ranking patients on the kidney transplant waiting list based on fuzzy inference system

Nasrin Taherkhani, Mohammad Mehdi Sepehri, Roghaye Khasha, Shadi Shafaghi

Open Access Research

Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism predicts left ventricular hypertrophy in maintenance hemodialysis

Bingman Liu, Qingqing Yang, Liangyu Zhao, Hua Shui, Xiaoyun Si

Open Access Liver Transplantation Research

Prediction of chronic kidney disease after orthotopic liver transplantation: development and validation of a nomogram model

Dandan Guo, Huifang Wang, Jun Liu, Hang Liu, Ming Zhang, Zixuan Fu, Xuemei Liu

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Left ventricular mass regression, all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis

Kevin C. Maki, Meredith L. Wilcox, Mary R. Dicklin, Rahul Kakkar, Michael H. Davidson

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research article

Xanthine oxidoreductase activity in platelet-poor and rich plasma as a oxidative stress indicator in patients required renal replacement therapy

Elżbieta Cecerska-Heryć, Rafał Heryć, Grażyna Dutkiewicz, Anna Michalczyk, Bartłomiej Grygorcewicz, Natalia Serwin, Sylwia Napiontek-Balińska, Barbara Dołęgowska

Open Access Smelling Disorder Research

The association between olfactory and gustatory dysfunction and chronic kidney disease

Api Chewcharat, Elizabeth A. Phipps, Khushboo Bhatia, Sahir Kalim, Andrew S. Allegretti, Meghan E. Sise, Teodor G. Păunescu, Rituvanthikaa Seethapathy, Sagar U. Nigwekar

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Recipient obesity as a risk factor in kidney transplantation

Uwe Scheuermann, Jonas Babel, Uta-Carolin Pietsch, Antje Weimann, Orestis Lyros, Katrin Semmling, Hans-Michael Hau, Daniel Seehofer, Sebastian Rademacher, Robert Sucher

Open Access Stroke Research

Does previous stroke modify the relationship between inflammatory biomarkers and clinical endpoints in CKD patients?

James Tollitt, Stuart M. Allan, Rajkumar Chinnadurai, Aghogho Odudu, Margaret Hoadley, Craig Smith, Philip A. Kalra

Open Access Thrombotic Microangiopathy Research

What is the impact of blood pressure on neurological symptoms and the risk of ESKD in primary and secondary thrombotic microangiopathies based on clinical presentation: a retrospective study

Jean-Michel Halimi, Benjamin Thoreau, Florent von Tokarski, Adeline Bauvois, Juliette Gueguen, Nicolas Goin, Christelle Barbet, Sylvie Cloarec, Elodie Mérieau, Sébastien Lachot, Denis Garot, Adrien Lemaignen, Emmanuel Gyan, Franck Perrotin, Claire Pouplard, François Maillot, Philippe Gatault, Bénédicte Sautenet, Emmanuel Rusch, Véronique Frémeaux-Bacchi, Cécile Vigneau, Guillaume Bayer, Fadi Fakhouri

Open Access Research article

The effectiveness and safety of corticosteroid therapy for IgA nephropathy with crescents: a prospective, randomized, controlled study

Mengjun Liang, Liping Xiong, Aihua Li, Jiafan Zhou, Yajuan Huang, Miaofang Huang, Xing Zhang, Hongrui Shi, Ning Su, Yi Wei, Zongpei Jiang

Open Access Macroalbuminuria Research article

Serum chromogranin A correlated with albuminuria in diabetic patients and is associated with early diabetic nephropathy

Hui Yu, Hongping Wang, Xue Su, Aili Cao, Xingmei Yao, Yunman Wang, Bingbing Zhu, Hao Wang, Ji Fang

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

The incidence, risk factors and outcomes of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients undergoing emergency surgery: a prospective observational study

Linhui Hu, Lu Gao, Danqing Zhang, Yating Hou, Lin Ling He, Huidan Zhang, Yufan Liang, Jing Xu, Chunbo Chen

Open Access Echocardiography Research

Cardiac valve calcification is associated with mortality in hemodialysis patients: a retrospective cohort study

Jiuxu Bai, Xiaoling Zhang, Aihong Zhang, Yanping Zhang, Kaiming Ren, Zhuo Ren, Chen Zhao, Qian Wang, Ning Cao

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Patient activation and its association with symptom burden and quality of life across the spectrum of chronic kidney disease stages in England

Winnie Magadi, Courtney J. Lightfoot, Katherine E. Memory, Shalini Santhakumaran, Sabine N. van der Veer, Nicola Thomas, Rachel Gair, Alice C. Smith

Open Access Sudden Cardiac Death Research

Association of abnormal electrocardiograph metrics with prolonged recovery time in incident hemodialysis patients

Jacqueline Watt, Jessica Fitzpatrick, Stephen M. Sozio, Bernard G. Jaar, Michelle M. Estrella, Larisa G. Tereshchenko, Jose M. Monroy-Trujillo, Michael Walsh, Rulan S. Parekh

Chronic kidney disease mediates cardiac dysfunction associated with increased resident cardiac macrophages

M. A. Mawhin, R. G. Bright, J. D. Fourre, E. I. Vloumidi, J. Tomlinson, A. Sardini, C. D. Pusey, K. J. Woollard

Open Access Piperacillin Research article

Beta-lactam dosing during continuous renal replacement therapy: a survey of practices in french intensive care units

Elodie Matusik, Justine Lemtiri, Guillaume Wabont, Fabien Lambiotte

Open Access Research

An equation to estimate 24-hour total urine protein excretion rate in patients who underwent urine protein testing

Fan Yang, Jing-Song Shi, Si-Wen Gong, Xiao-Dong Xu, Wei-Bo Le

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Using dipstick urinalysis to predict development of acute kidney injury in patients with COVID-19

Meredith C. McAdams, Michael Li, Pin Xu, L. Parker Gregg, Jiten Patel, Duwayne L. Willett, Ferdinand Velasco, Christoph U. Lehmann, S. Susan Hedayati

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Longitudinal monitoring of mRNA levels of regulatory T cell biomarkers by using non-invasive strategies to predict outcome in renal transplantation

Angelica Canossi, Samuele Iesari, Quirino Lai, Simone Ciavatta, Tiziana Del Beato, Alessandra Panarese, Barbara Binda, Alessandra Tessitore, Franco Papola, Francesco Pisani

Open Access Care Research

Design of therapeutic education workshops for home haemodialysis in a patient-centered chronic kidney diseases research: a qualitative study

Abdallah Guerraoui, Roula Galland, Flora Belkahla-Delabruyere, Odile Didier, Veronique Berger, Pierre Sauvajon, Christian Serve, Jean Charles Zuriaga, Fréderic Riquier, Agnes Caillette-Beaudoin

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Fasting during Ramadan and acute kidney injury (AKI): a retrospective, propensity matched cohort study

Numan A. AlAbdan, Omar A. Almohammed, Maryam S. Altukhaim, Mahfooz A. Farooqui, Mubarak I. Abdalla, Hazza Q. Al Otaibi, Norah R. Alshuraym, Shahad N. Alghusun, Lama H. Alotaibi, Abdullah A. Alsayyari

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Study protocol

Long-term efficacy and safety of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in patients with chronic kidney disease, on dialysis or after kidney transplantation: a national prospective observational cohort study

P. Bouwmans, A. L. Messchendorp, J. S. Sanders, L. Hilbrands, M. E. J. Reinders, P. Vart, F. J. Bemelman, A. C. Abrahams, M. A. van den Dorpel, M. A. Ten Dam, A. P. J. de Vries, T. Rispens, M. Steenhuis, R. T. Gansevoort, M. H. Hemmelder, Marcia L. Kho, Debbie van Baarle, Renate G. van der Molen, Carla C. Baan, Dimitri A. Diavatopoulos, Ester B. M. Remmerswaal, Celine Imhof, Reshwan S. R. K. Malahe, Sophie C. Frölke, Nynke Rots, Fiona van der Klis, Ester ten Hoope, Wanda S. Konijn, Tony de Ronde, Johanna P. M. Vervoort, Marion H. J. Braks

Open Access Streptococci Case report

Thrombotic microangiopathy with transiently positive direct Coombs test in an adult with poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis: a case report

Dan Inoue, Takashi Oda, Sachiko Iwama, Takahiko Hoshino, Mitsuya Mukae, Takashi Sakai, Aki Kojima, Takahiro Uchida, Tadasu Kojima, Kentaro Sugisaki, Tomohiro Tomiyasu, Noriko Yoshikawa, Muneharu Yamada

Open Access Hyperkalemia Research

Potassium responses to sodium zirconium cyclosilicate in hyperkalemic hemodialysis patients: post-hoc analysis of DIALIZE

Steven Fishbane, Martin Ford, Masafumi Fukagawa, Kieran McCafferty, Anjay Rastogi, Bruce Spinowitz, Konstantin Staroselskiy, Konstantin Vishnevskiy, Vera Lisovskaja, Ayman Al-Shurbaji, Nicolas Guzman, Sunil Bhandari

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Long-term clinical outcomes of patients with nonsignificant transplanted renal artery stenosis

Manoela Linhares Machado Barteczko, Henry Campos Orellana, Gustavo Rocha Feitosa Santos, Attílio Galhardo, Gabriel Kanhouche, Ana Carolina Buso Faccinetto, Hélio Tedesco Júnior, José Osmar Medina Pestana, Ângelo Amato Vincenzo de Paola, Adriano Henrique Pereira Barbosa

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Nomogram to predict rapid kidney function decline in population at risk of cardiovascular disease

Qiuxia Zhang, Junyan Lu, Li Lei, Guodong Li, Hongbin Liang, Jingyi Zhang, Yun Li, Xiangqi Lu, Xinlu Zhang, Yaode Chen, Jiazhi Pan, Yejia Chen, Xinxin Lin, Xiaobo Li, Shiyu Zhou, Shengli An, Jiancheng Xiu

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

SARS-CoV-2 infection increases risk of acute kidney injury in a bimodal age distribution

Erica C. Bjornstad, Gary Cutter, Pramod Guru, Shina Menon, Isabella Aldana, Scott House, Nancy M. Tofil, Catherine A. St. Hill, Yasir Tarabichi, Valerie M. Banner-Goodspeed, Amy B. Christie, Surapaneni Krishna Mohan, Devang Sanghavi, Jarrod M. Mosier, Girish Vadgaonkar, Allan J. Walkey, Rahul Kashyap, Vishakha K. Kumar, Vikas Bansal, Karen Boman, Mayank Sharma, Marija Bogojevic, Neha Deo, Lynn Retford, Ognjen Gajic, Katja M. Gist, Jean-Baptiste Mesland, Pierre Henin, Hélène Petre, Isabelle Buelens, Anne-Catherine Gerard, Philippe Clevenbergh, Rolando Claure-Del Granado, Jose A. Mercado, Esdenka Vega-Terrazas, Maria F. Iturricha-Caceres, Dragana Markotić, Ivana Bošnjak, Oscar Y. Gavidia, Felipe Pachon, Yeimy A. Sanchez, Danijel Knežević, Tanja Kovacevic, Josko Markic, Tatjana Catipovic Ardalic, Branka Polic, Ivo Ivić, Dominko Carev, Robert Glavinic, Mohamed El Kassas, Mohamed Badr, Ahmed Tawheed, Ahmed Tawheed, Hend Yahia, Dimitrios Kantas, Vasileios Koulouras, Sierra-Hoffman, Fernando Valerio, Oscar Diaz, Jose Luis Ramos Coello, Guillermo Perez, Ana Karen Vallecillo Lizardo, Gabina María Reyes Guillen, Helin Archaga Soto, Csaba Kopitkó, Ágnes Bencze, István Méhész, Zsófia Gerendai, Phaneendra Doddaga, Neethi Chandra, Girish Vadgaonkar, Rekha Ediga, Shilpa Basety, Shwetha Dammareddy, Phani Sreeharsha Kasumalla, Umamaheswara Raju, Janaki Manduva, Naresh Kolakani, Shreeja Sripathi, Sheetal Chaitanya, Anusha Cherian, Sreejith Parameswaran, Magesh Parthiban, A. Menu Priya, Chetak Basavaraja, Madhav Prabhu, Vishal Jakati, Puneet Rijhwani, Ashish Jain, Aviral Gupta, Ram Mohan Jaiswal, Ambika Tyagi, Nimish Mathur, Mradul Kumar Daga, Munisha Agarwal, Ishan Rohtagi, Sridhar Papani, Mahesh Kamuram, Kamlesh Kumar Agrawal, Vijendra Baghel, Kirti Kumar Patel, Surapaneni Krishna Mohan, Ekambaram Jyothisree, Mukur Petrolwala, Bharat Ladva, Yuki Itagaki, Akira Kodate, Reina Suzuki, Akira Kodate, Yuki Takahashi, Koyo Moriki, Michihito Kyo, Hidenobu Shigemitsu, Yuka Mishima, Nobuyuki Nosaka, Michio Nagashima, Abdulrahman Al-Fares, Rene Rodriguez-Gutierrez, Jose Gerardo Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Alejandro Salcido-Montenegro, Adrian Camacho-Ortiz, Fatimah Hassan-Hanga, Hadiza Galadanci, Abubakar Shehu Gezawa, Halima M. S. Kabara, Taiwo Gboluwaga Amole, Halima Kabir, Dalha Gwarzo Haliru, Abdullahi S. Ibrahim, Muhammad Sohaib Asghar, Mashaal Syed, Syed Anosh Ali Naqvi, Sidra Ishaque, Ali Faisal Saleem, Naveed Ur Rehman Siddiqui, Salima Sherali, Yasmin Hashwani, Shafia Ishaque, Igor Borisovich Zabolotskikh, Konstantin Dmitrievich Zybin, Sergey Vasilevich Sinkov, Tatiana Sergeevna Musaeva, Marwa Ridha Amer, Mohammed Abdullah Bawazeer, Talal I. Dahhan, Eiad Kseibi, Abid Shahzad Butt, Syed Moazzum Khurshid, Muath Rabee, Mohammed Abujazar, Razan Alghunaim, Maal Abualkhair, Abeer Turki AlFirm, Eiad Kseibi, Syed Moazzum Khurshid, Muath Rabee, Mohammed Abujazar, Razan Alghunaim, Razan K. Alamoudi, Hassan M. AlSharif, Sarah A. Almazwaghi, Mohammed S. Elsakran, Mohamed A. Aid, Mouaz A. Darwich, Omnia M. Hagag, Salah A. Ali, Alona Rocacorba, Kathrine Supeña, Efren Ray Juane, Jenalyn Medina, Jowany Baduria, Mohammed A. Almazyad, Mohammed I. Alarifi, Jara M. Macarambon, Ahmad Abdullah Bukhari, Hussain A. Albahrani, Kazi N. Asfina, Kaltham M. Aldossary, Ana Andrijevic, Srdjan Gavrilovic, Vladimir Carapic, Pedja Kovacevic, Predrag D. Stevanovic, Dejan S. Stojakov, Duska K. Ignjatovic, Suzana C. Bojic, Marina M. Bobos, Irina B. Nenadic, Milica S. Zaric, Marko D. Djuric, Vladimir R. Djukic, Santiago Y. Teruel, Belen C. Martin, Santiago Y. Teruel, Varsha P. Gharpure, Usman Raheemi, Kenneth W. Dodd, Nicholas Goodmanson, Kathleen Hesse, Paige Bird, Chauncey Weinert, Nathan Schoenrade, Abdulrahman Altaher, Esmael Mayar, Matthew Aronson, Tyler Cooper, Monica Logan, Brianna Miner, Gisele Papo, Suzanne Barry, Christopher Woll, Gregory Wu, Erin Carrole, Kathryn Burke, Mustafa Mohammed, Catherine A. St. Hill, Roman R. Melamed, David M. Tierney, Love A. Patel, Vino S. Raj, Barite U. Dawud, Narayana Mazumder, Abbey Sidebottom, Alena M. Guenther, Benjamin D. Krehbiel, Nova J. Schmitz, Stacy L. Jepsen, Lynn Sipsey, Anna Schulte, Whitney Wunderlich, Cecely Hoyt, Abhijit A. Raval, Andrea Franks, Katherine Irby, Ronald C. Sanders Jr, Glenda Hefley, Jennifer M. Jarvis, Anmol Kharbanda, Sunil Jhajhria, Zachary Fyffe, Stephen Capizzi, Bethany Alicie, Martha Green, Lori Crockarell, Amelia Drennan, Kathleen Dubuque, Tonya Fambrough, Nikole Gasaway, Briana Krantz, Peiman Nebi, Jan Orga, Margaret Serfass, Alina Simion, Kimberly Warren, Cassie Wheeler, C. J. Woolman, Amy B. Christie, Dennis W. Ashley, Rajani Adiga, Andrew S. Moyer, George M. Verghese, Andrea Sikora Newsome, Christy C. Forehand, Rebecca Bruning, Timothy W. Jones, Moldovan Sabov, Fatema Zaidi, Fiona Tissavirasingham, Dhatri Malipeddi, Jarrod M. Mosier, Karen Lutrick, Beth Salvagio Campbell, Cathleen Wilson, Patrick Rivers, Jonathan Brinks, Mokenge Ndiva Mongoh, Boris Gilson, Donna Lee Armaignac, Don Parris, Maria Pilar Zuniga, Ilea Vargas, Viviana Boronat, Anneka Hutton, Navneet Kaur, Prashank Neupane, Nohemi Sadule-Rios, Lourdes M. Rojas, Aashish Neupane, Priscilla Rivera, Carlos Valle Carlos, Gregory Vincent, Christopher M. Howard, Cameron McBride, Jocelyn Abraham, Orlando Garner, Katherine Richards, Keegan Collins, Preethi Antony, Sindhu Mathew, Valerie C. Danesh, Gueorgui Dubrocq, Amber L. Davis, Marissa J. Hammers, Ill M. McGahey, Amanda C. Farris, Elisa Priest, Robyn Korsmo, Lorie Fares, Kathy Skiles, Susan M. Shor, Kenya Burns, Corrie A. Dowell, Gabriela “ Hope” Gonzales, Melody Flores, Lindsay Newman, Debora A. Wilk, Jason Ettlinger, Jaccallene Bomar, Himani Darji, Alejandro Arroliga, Alejandro C. Arroliga, Corrie A. Dowell, Gabriela Hope Conzales, Melody Flores, Lindsay Newman, Debora A. Wilk, Jason Ettlinger, Himani Darji, Jaccallene Bomar, Paras B. Khandhar, Elizabeth Kring, Valerie M. Banner-Goodspeed, Somnath Bose, Lauren E. Kelly, Melisa Joseph, Marie McGourty, Krystal Capers, Benjamin Hoenig, Maria C. Karamourtopoulos, Anica C. Law, Elias N. Baedorf Kassis, Allan J. Walkey, Sushrut S. Waikar, Michael A. Garcia, Mia Colona, Zoe Kibbelaar, Michael Leong, Daniel Wallman, Kanupriya Soni, Jennifer Maccarone, Joshua Gilman, Ycar Devis, Joseph Chung, Munizay Paracha, David N. Lumelsky, Madeline DiLorenzo, Najla Abdurrahman, Shelsey Johnson, Maj Andrew M. Hersh, C. P. T. Stephanie L. Wachs, Brittany S. Swigger, C. P. T. Stephanie L. Wachs, Capt Lauren A. Sattler, Capt Michael N. Moulton, Aaron S. Miller, Edwin L. Anderson, Rosemary Nagy, Ravali R. Inja, Pooja A. Nawathe, Isabel Pedraza, Jennifer Tsing, Karen Carr, Anila Chaudhary, Kathleen Guglielmino, Raghavendra Tirupathi, Alymer Tang, Arshad Safi, Cindy Green, Jackie Newell, Katja M. Gist, Imran A. Sayed, John Brinton, Larisa Strom, Kathleen Chiotos, Allison M. Blatz, Giyoung Lee, Ryan H. Burnett, Guy I. Sydney, Danielle M. Traynor, Karissa Nauert, Annika Gonzalez, Mariel Bagley, Anita Santpurkar, Sreekanth Cheruku, Farzin Ahmed, Christopher Deonarine, Ashley Jones, Mohammad-Ali Shaikh, David Preston, Jeanette Chin, Vidula Vachharajani, Abhijit Duggal, Prabalini Rajendram, Omar Mehkri, Siddharth Dugar, Michelle Biehl, Gretchen Sacha, Stuart Houltham, Alexander King, Kiran Ashok, Bryan Poynter, Mary Beukemann, Richard Rice, Susan Gole, Valerie Shaner, Adarsh Conjeevaram, Michelle Ferrari, Narendrakumar Alappan, Steven Minear, Jaime Hernandez-Montfort, Syed Sohaib Nasim, Ravi Sunderkrishnan, Debasis Sahoo, Steven K. Daugherty, Sam Atkinson, Kelly Shrimpton, Sidney Ontai, Brian Contreras, Uzoma Obinwanko, Nneka Amamasi, Amir Sharafi, Sarah Lee, Zahia Esber, Chetna Jinjvadia, Christine Waller, Kara Kallies, Jonean Thorsen, Alec Fitzsimmons, Haley Olsen, Heda R. Dapul, Sourabh Verma, Alan Salas, Ariel Daube, Michelle Korn, Michelle Ramirez, Logi Rajagopalan, Laura Santos, Héctor Collazo Santiago, Ricardo Alan Hernandez, Orma Smalls, Atul Malhotra, Abdurrahman Husain, Qais Zawaydeh, J. H. Steuernagle, Steven Q. Davis, Valentina Jovic, Valentina Jovic, Max Masuda, Amanda Hayes, Kristen Lee Gossett, Jennifer Nason, Sarah Morris, Sarah Deans, Stephanie Houston, Michael Smith, William Snow, Riley Liptak, Hannah Durant, Valerie Pendleton, Alay Nanavati, Risa Mrozowsk, Namrata Nag, Jeff Brauer, Ashwin Dharmadhikari, Sahib Singh, Franco Laghi, Ghania Naeem, Andrew Wang, Kevin Bliden, Amit Rout, Jaime Barnes, Martin Gesheff, Asha Thomas, Melbin Thomas, Alicia R. Liendo, Jovan Milosavljevic, Kenan Abbasi, Nicholas B. Burley, Nicole Rapista, Samuel Amankwah, Sanjay K. Poudel, Saroj Timilsina, Sauradeep Sarkar, Oluwasayo Akinyosoye, Shashi K. Yalamanchili, Sheena Moorthy, Sonia Sugumar, Jonathan Ford, Martin C. Taylor, Charlotte Dunderdale, Alyssa Henshaw, Mary K. Brunk, Jessica Hagy, Shehryar Masood, Sushrutha Sridhar, Manoj K. Gupta, Franscene E. Oulds, Akshay Nandavar, Yuk Ming Liu, Sarah Zavala, Sarah Zavala, Esther Shim, Andy Y. Wen, Allie DaCar, Ronald A. Reilkoff, Julia A. Heneghan, Sarah Eichen, Lexie Goertzen, Scott Rajala, Ghislaine Feussom, Ben Tang, Christine C. Junia, Robert Lichtenberg, Hasrat Sidhu, Diana Espinoza, Shelden Rodrigues, Maria Jose Zabala, Daniela Goyes, Ammu Susheela, Buddhi Hatharaliyadda, Naveen Rameshkumar, Amulya Kasireddy, Genessis Maldonado, Lisseth Beltran, Akshata Chaugule, Hassan Khan, Namrata Patil, Ruhi Patil, Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba, Ayan Sen, Amanda Palacios, Giyth M. Mahdi, Rahul Kashyap, Ognjen Gajic, Vikas Bansal, Aysun Tekin, Amos Lal, John C. O’Horo, Neha N. 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Open Access Diabetic Nephropathy Research

Association of significantly elevated plasma levels of NGAL and IGFBP4 in patients with diabetic nephropathy

Hamad Ali, Mohamed Abu-Farha, Eman Alshawaf, Sriraman Devarajan, Yousif Bahbahani, Irina Al-Khairi, Preethi Cherian, Zahra Alsairafi, Vidya Vijayan, Fahd Al-Mulla, Abdulnabi Al Attar, Jehad Abubaker

Open Access Macrohematuria Case report

Disruption of the glomerular basement membrane associated with nutcracker syndrome and double inferior vena cava in Noonan syndrome: a case report

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Open Access Vasculitis Research

Biopsy-proven kidney involvement in hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis

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Open Access Peritoneal Dialysis Research

Coexistence of diabetes mellitus and pre-existing cardiovascular disease and mortality in Chinese patients on peritoneal dialysis

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Open Access Sudden Cardiac Death Research article

The effects of peritoneal dialysis on QT interval in ESRD patients

Wenjing Zhang, Yu Liang, Jia Lv, Yan Li, Jiping Sun

Open Access Vesicorenal Reflux Research

Prevalence of reflux nephropathy in Iranian children with solitary kidney: results of a multi-center study

Maryam Esteghamati, Hadi Sorkhi, Hamid Mohammadjafari, Ali Derakhshan, Simin Sadeghi-Bojd, Hossein Emad Momtaz, Masoumeh Mohkam, Baranak Safaeian, Nakysa Hooman, Afshin Safaeiasl, Mohsen Akhavan Sepahi, Khadijeh Ghasemi, Zahra Bazargani, Elham Emami

Open Access Insulins Research

Insulin use in chronic kidney disease and the risk of hypoglycemic events

Daulton Grube, Guo Wei, Robert Boucher, Nikita Abraham, Na Zhou, Victoria Gonce, Judy Carle, Debra L. Simmons, Srinivasan Beddhu

Open Access Sarcopenia Research

Gait disorders in CKD patients: muscle wasting or cognitive impairment? A cross-sectional pilot study to investigate gait signatures in Stage 1–5 CKD patients

Damiano D. Zemp, Olivier Giannini, Pierluigi Quadri, Marco Rabuffetti, Mauro Tettamanti, Eling D. de Bruin

Open Access Peripheral Arterial Disease Research

Step length and fall risk in adults with chronic kidney disease: a pilot study

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Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Guidelines

Clinical practice guideline exercise and lifestyle in chronic kidney disease

Luke A. Baker, Daniel S. March, Thomas J. Wilkinson, Roseanne E. Billany, Nicolette C. Bishop, Ellen M. Castle, Joseph Chilcot, Mark D. Davies, Matthew P. M. Graham-Brown, Sharlene A. Greenwood, Naushad A. Junglee, Archontissa M. Kanavaki, Courtney J. Lightfoot, Jamie H. Macdonald, Gabriella M. K. Rossetti, Alice C. Smith, James O. Burton

Open Access Escherichia Coli Research

Exploration of the correlation between intestinal flora and Escherichia coli peritoneal dialysis-related peritonitis

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Open Access Central Venous Catheter Research

Characteristics and predictors of mortality on haemodialysis in Brazil: a cohort of 5,081 incident patients

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Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Serum homocysteine is associated with tubular interstitial lesions at the early stage of IgA nephropathy

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Pathological right ventricular changes in synthesized electrocardiogram in end-stage renal disease patients and their association with mortality and cardiac hospitalization: a cohort study

Yunis Daralammouri, Jamal Qaddumi, Khubaib Ayoub, Doaa Abu-Hantash, Mai Arafat Al-sadi, Rofayda M. Ayaseh, Murad Azamtta, Osama Sawalmeh, Zakaria Hamdan

Open Access Affective Disorder Research article

Psychological distress and associated factors among kidney transplant recipients and living kidney donors during COVID-19

Sobhana Thangaraju, Yeli Wang, Terence Kee, Ping Sing Tee, York Moi Lu, Jing Hua Yong, Quan Yao Ho, Ian Tatt Liew, Fiona Foo, Natelie Kwan, Eleanor Ng, Xia He, Constance Lee, Shannon Baey, Jenny Leong, Judy Tan, Rupesh Madhukar Shirore, Tazeen Hasan Jafar

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Central venous pressure and acute kidney injury in critically ill patients with multiple comorbidities: a large retrospective cohort study

Runlu Sun, Qi Guo, Junjie Wang, Yaoyao Zou, Zhiteng Chen, Jingfeng Wang, Yuling Zhang

Open Access Pharmacokinetics Research

An open-label phase 2 trial to assess the efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics of lanthanum carbonate in hyperphosphatemic children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease undergoing dialysis

Anna Wasilewska, Rose Ann Murray, Aimee Sundberg, Sharif Uddin, Heinrich Achenbach, Aleksey Shavkin, Tamás Szabó, Andrea Vergani, Obi Umeh

Open Access Polycystic Kidney Disease Research

Incidence of thyroid nodules in early stage autosomal polycystic kidney disease

Ewa Zalewska, Sonia Kaniuka-Jakubowska, Piotr Wiśniewski, Magdalena Jankowska, Krzysztof Sworczak, Alicja Dębska-Ślizień

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Case report

A case report of mitochondrial myopathy with membranous nephropathy

Minchao Cai, Qing Yu, Jinfang Bao

Open Access Diabetic Nephropathy Research

miR-543 regulates high glucose-induced fibrosis and autophagy in diabetic nephropathy by targeting TSPAN8

Langen Zhuang, Xiaoxu Ge, Xiaolei Hu, Qingqing Yang, Xiaoyan Pei, Guoxi Jin

Open Access Thrombotic Microangiopathy Case report

Late antibody-mediated rejection in a kidney transplant recipient: COVID 19 induced?

Nicole Nourié, Hussein Nassereddine, Sarah Mouawad, Louaa Chebbou, Rita Ghaleb, Fatmeh Abbas, Hiba Azar

Open Access Study protocol

Peer mentorship to improve outcomes in patients on hemodialysis (PEER-HD): a randomized controlled trial protocol

Ladan Golestaneh, Michal Melamed, Ryung S. Kim, Jennifer St. Clair Russell, Michele Heisler, Lisandra Villalba, Taylor Perry, Kerri L. Cavanaugh

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Study protocol

Self-management program for patients with chronic kidney disease (SMP-CKD) in Southern China: protocol for an ambispective cohort study

Wen-wei Ouyang, Hui-fen Chen, Xue-yi Xu, Xian-long Zhang, Li-zhe Fu, Fang Tang, Ze-huai Wen, Gaetano Marrone, Li-chang Liu, Jing-xia Lin, Xu-sheng Liu, Yi-fan Wu

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research article

Acute kidney injury following major emergency abdominal surgery – a retrospective cohort study based on medical records data

Theis B. Mikkelsen, Anders Schack, Jakob O. Oreskov, Ismail Gögenur, Jakob Burcharth, Sarah Ekeloef

Open Access Spironolactone Research article

Efficacy and safety of a low-sodium diet and spironolactone in patients with stage 1-3a chronic kidney disease: a pilot study

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Open Access Research

Post-transplant outcomes in recipients of living donor kidneys and intended recipients of living donor kidneys

Atit A. Dharia, Michael Huang, Michelle M. Nash, Niki Dacouris, Jeffrey S. Zaltzman, G. V. Ramesh Prasad

Open Access Research

High cortisol levels are associated with oxidative stress and mortality in maintenance hemodialysis patients

Juhee Kim, Kyu-sang Yun, Ajin Cho, Do Hyoung Kim, Young-Ki Lee, Myung-Jin Choi, Seok-hyung Kim, Hyunsuk Kim, Jong-Woo Yoon, Hayne C. Park

Open Access Erythropoietin Research

Erythropoietin in Acute Kidney Injury (EAKI): a pragmatic randomized clinical trial

Mabel Aoun, Ghassan Sleilaty, Celine Boueri, Eliane Younes, Kim Gabriel, Reine-Marie Kahwaji, Najla Hilal, Jenny Hawi, Rita Araman, Dania Chelala, Chadia Beaini

Open Access Lymphoma Case report

Immunotactoid glomerulopathy – an enigmatic case in the setting of nodal marginal zone lymphoma and systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma

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Open Access Diabetic Nephropathy Research

Study protocol and baseline characteristics of newly induced dialysis patients: a prospective multi-center cohort study with a biological sample bank, the Ibaraki Dialysis Initiation Cohort (iDIC) study

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Open Access Research

Consistency of the estimated target weights and ECW/TBW using BIA after hemodialysis in patients between standing and lying-down positions

Gwangho Choi, Ho Joong Yoon, Young Jin Song, Hae Min Jeong, Jae Eon Gu, Miyeun Han, Seok Hyung Kim, Jong-Woo Yoon, Hyunsuk Kim

Open Access Parkinson's Disease Research

Transcranial sonography depicts a larger substantia nigra echogenic area in renal transplant patients on calcineurin inhibitors than on rapamycin

Nordeval Cavalcante Araújo, José Hermógenes Rocco Suassuna, Rita de Cássia Leite Fernandes

Open Access Arteriovenous Fistula Research

Cephalic arch restenosis rates in hemodialysis patients with brachiocephalic fistulae: a retrospective multicenter analysis of 3301 patients

Rishi N. Razdan, Melvin Rosenblatt, Yue Jiao, Nancy McLaughlin, Len A. Usvyat, Murat Sor, John W. Larkin

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Acute kidney injury in hospitalized children with sickle cell anemia

Anthony Batte, Sahit Menon, John Ssenkusu, Sarah Kiguli, Robert Kalyesubula, Joseph Lubega, Edrisa Ibrahim Mutebi, Robert O. Opoka, Chandy C. John, Michelle C. Starr, Andrea L. Conroy

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Expression and 7-day time course of circulating microRNAs in septic patients treated with nephrotoxic antibiotic agents

Nadezda Petejova, Arnost Martinek, Josef Zadrazil, Viktor Klementa, Lenka Pribylova, Radim Bris, Marcela Kanova, Radka Sigutova, Ivana Kacirova, Zdenek Svagera, Eva Bace, David Stejskal

Open Access Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Case report

Regorafenib-induced renal-limited thrombotic microangiopathy: a case report and review of literatures

Qinghua Yin, Na Guo, Xueli Zhou, Huan Xu, Song Lei, Ping Fu, Hui Zhong

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Interaction between socioeconomic deprivation and ethnicity for likelihood of receiving living-donor kidney transplantation

Khalid Khalil, Anna Brotherton, Sue Moore, Felicity Evison, Suzy Gallier, James Hodson, Adnan Sharif

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Associations between dietary patterns and stages of chronic kidney disease

Hsin-I. Lin, Hui-Ming Chen, Chien-Chin Hsu, Hung-Jung Lin, Jhi-Joung Wang, Shih-Feng Weng, Yuan Kao, Chien-Cheng Huang

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Long-term follow-up of patients after acute kidney injury in the neonatal period: abnormal ambulatory blood pressure findings

Gulsen Akkoc, Ali Duzova, Ayse Korkmaz, Berna Oguz, Sule Yigit, Murat Yurdakok

Open Access Nephrectomy Research

Regulation of SARS CoV-2 host factors in the kidney and heart in rats with 5/6 nephrectomy—effects of salt, ARB, DPP4 inhibitor and SGLT2 blocker

Yingquan Xiong, Denis Delic, Shufei Zeng, Xin Chen, Chang Chu, Ahmed A. Hasan, Bernhard K. Krämer, Thomas Klein, Lianghong Yin, Berthold Hocher

Open Access Research

Proteomic signature of tubulointerstitial tissue predicts prognosis in IgAN

Flavia Teodora Ioana Paunas, Kenneth Finne, Sabine Leh, Hans-Peter Marti, Frode Berven, Bjørn Egil Vikse

Open Access Biomarkers Research article

Determining factors of functioning in hemodialysis patients using the international classification of functioning, disability and health

Luciana M. M. Santos, Pedro Henrique S. Figueiredo, Ana C. R. Silva, Patrícia C. Campos, Gabriele T. Gonçalves, Jaqueline de Paula C Freitas, Fidelis Antônio da Silva Junior, Jousielle Márcia Santos, Frederico L. Alves, Vanessa G. B. Rodrigues, Emílio Henrique B. Maciel, Maria Cecília S. M. Prates, Borja Sañudo, Redha Taiar, Mario Bernardo-Filho, Vanessa P. Lima, Henrique S. Costa, Vanessa A. Mendonça, Ana Cristina R. Lacerda

Open Access Care Research

A randomized controlled trial to evaluate and assess the effect of comprehensive pre-end stage kidney disease education on home dialysis use in veterans, rationale and design

Ashutosh M. Shukla, Jennifer Hale-Gallardo, Tatiana Orozco, Ivette Freytes, Zachary Purvis, Sergio Romero, Huanguang Jia

Open Access Thrombotic Microangiopathy Research

Incidence and cost of haemolytic uraemic syndrome in urban China: a national population-based analysis

Jingnan Feng, Ke Xu, Xinmiao Shi, Lu Xu, Lili Liu, Fang Wang, Xuhui Zhong, Guozhen Liu, Jinxi Wang, Pei Gao, Jie Ding, Shengfeng Wang, Siyan Zhan

Open Access Research

Circulating Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin type 9 level independently predicts incident cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in hemodialysis black Africans patients

François-Pantaléon Musungayi Kajingulu, François Bompeka Lepira, Aliocha Natuhoyila Nkodila, Jean-Robert Rissassy Makulo, Vieux Momeme Mokoli, Pepe Mfutu Ekulu, Justine Busanga Bukabau, Yannick Mayamba Nlandu, Augustin Luzayadio Longo, Nazaire Mangani Nseka, Laura Labriola, Ernest Kiswaya Sumaili

Open Access Nephrotic Syndrome Research

Clinical value of serum cholinesterase levels in Nephrotic syndrome: an observational study

Kimihiko Goto, Keiji Kono, Hideki Fujii, Shunsuke Goto, Shinichi Nishi

Factors associated with aortic valve stenosis in Japanese patients with end-stage kidney disease

Yuji Sasakawa, Naoki Okamoto, Maya Fujii, Jyoichiro Kato, Yukio Yuzawa, Daijo Inaguma

Open Access Escherichia Coli Research

Correlation between intestinal flora disruption and protein–energy wasting in patients with end-stage renal disease

Jianguang Hu, Xiaoshi Zhong, Yan Liu, Jing Yan, Daoyuan Zhou, Danping Qin, Xiao Xiao, Yuanyuan Zheng, Luona Wen, Rongshao Tan, Pan Liang, Yun Liu

Open Access Rituximab Research

Treatment of post-transplant recurrent FSGS in children using plasmapheresis and augmentation of immunosuppression

Jaime M. Restrepo, Laura Torres-Canchala, Hernando Londoño, Eliana Manzi, Michael J. G. Somers

Open Access Amphotericin B Research

Tolerability and epidemiology of nephrotoxicity associated with conventional amphotericin B therapy: a retrospective study in tertiary care centers in Palestine

Yusri Abdel-Hafez, Hani Siaj, Mohammad Janajri, Yazan Abu-Baker, Zaher Nazzal, Zakaria Hamdan, Rabee Adwan, Banan M. Aiesh, Ahmad I. Anaya

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Associations of sodium and potassium intake with chronic kidney disease in a prospective cohort study: findings from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, 2008–2017

Samuel L. Swift, Yelena Drexler, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Leopoldo Raij, Maria M. Llabre, Neil Schneiderman, Linda Van Horn, James P. Lash, Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Tali Elfassy

Open Access Rituximab Case report

Treatment resistant M-type phospholipase A2 receptor associated membranous nephropathy responds to obinutuzumab: a report of two cases

Rebecca Hudson, Cassandra Rawlings, Saw Yu Mon, Julia Jefferis, George T. John

Open Access Vasculitis Case report

Acquired aplastic anemia complicated with anti-glomerular basement membrane disease successfully treated with immunosuppressive therapy: a case report

Kenji Matsui, Wataru Kamata, Yasuhiro Mochida, Kunihiro Ishioka, Hidekazu Moriya, Sumi Hidaka, Takayasu Ohtake, Yotaro Tamai, Shuzo Kobayashi

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Acute kidney injury contributes to worse physical and quality of life outcomes in survivors of critical illness

Kirby P. Mayer, Victor M. Ortiz-Soriano, Alborz Kalantar, Joshua Lambert, Peter E. Morris, Javier A. Neyra

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Associations between physical activity levels and renal recovery following acute kidney injury stage 3: a feasibility study

Anam Asad, Amal Thomas, Maurice Dungey, Katherine L. Hull, Daniel S. March, James O. Burton

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Polish attitudes towards unspecified kidney donation: a cross-sectional study

Paulina Kurleto, Lucyna Tomaszek, Irena Milaniak, Katrina A. Bramstedt

Open Access Amyloidosis of the Kidney Research

A stepwise data interpretation process for renal amyloidosis typing by LMD-MS

Ming Ke, Xin Li, Lin Wang, Shuling Yue, Beibei Zhao

Open Access Albuminuria Research

Comparing prevalence of chronic kidney disease and its risk factors between population-based surveys in Russia and Norway

Sarah Cook, Marit D. Solbu, Anne Elise Eggen, Olena Iakunchykova, Maria Averina, Laila A. Hopstock, Kamila Kholmatova, Alexander V. Kudryavtsev, David A. Leon, Sofia Malyutina, Andrew Ryabikov, Elizabeth Williamson, Dorothea Nitsch

Open Access Research article

Corticomedullary shunting after ischaemia and reperfusion in the porcine kidney?

Michael Rehling, Stine Gram Skjøth, Jørgen Frøkiær, Lene Elsebeth Nielsen, Christian Flø, Bente Jespersen, Anna Krarup Keller

Open Access Kidney Cancer Case report

Sunitinib-related high-grade proteinuria and allograft dysfunction in a kidney recipient: a rare case report

Hsu-Cheng Ko, Huai-Pao Lee, Jiann-Der Wu, Tsung-Liang Ma, Cheng-Huang Shen, Chang-Te Lin, Ming-Chin Cheng, Yeong-Chin Jou

Open Access Diabetic Nephropathy Research article

Impact of klotho on the expression of SRGAP2a in podocytes in diabetic nephropathy

Donghua Jin, Miao Jia, Yuxian Xie, Lihua Lin, Hong Qiu, Guoyuan Lu

Open Access Care Research

Healthcare provider perspectives on integrating peer support in non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease care: a mixed methods study

Shannan Love, Tyrone G. Harrison, Danielle E. Fox, Maoliosa Donald, Nancy Verdin, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, Meghan J. Elliott

Open Access Tonsillectomy Research

Comparison of two protocols for steroid pulse therapy in patients with IgA nephropathy: a retrospective observational study

Satoshi Yamatani, Keiji Kono, Hideki Fujii, Ken Hirabayashi, Mao Shimizu, Kentaro Watanabe, Shunsuke Goto, Shinichi Nishi

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Duration of delayed graft function and its impact on graft outcomes in deceased donor kidney transplantation

Pooja Budhiraja, Kunam S Reddy, Richard J Butterfield, Caroline C Jadlowiec, Adyr A. Moss, Hassan A Khamash, Lavanya Kodali, Suman S Misra, Raymond L Heilman

Open Access Coronary Heart Disease Research article

Association of plasma neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin and thoracic aorta calcification in maintenance hemodialysis patients with and without diabetes

Kai Wei, Gesheng Song, Linhe Xi, Juan Chen, Chuancai Sun, Ping Chen, Yong Wei, Li Wang, Xianglei Kong, Yang Li, Dongmei Xu, Xiaoyan Jia

Open Access ANCA-Associated Vasculitis Research article

Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody associated vasculitis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Haiting Wu, Yiyun Lu, Rongrong Hu, Wei Ye, Yubing Wen, Jianfang Cai, Hang Li, Xuemei Li

Open Access Albuminuria Research

Markers of kidney function, genetic variation related to cognitive function, and cognitive performance in the UK Biobank

Erin L. Richard, Linda K. McEvoy, Ian J. Deary, Gail Davies, Steven Y. Cao, Eyal Oren, John E. Alcaraz, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Jan Bressler, Rany M. Salem

Open Access Macroalbuminuria Research

The effect of renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system inhibitors on continuous and binary kidney outcomes in subgroups of patients with diabetes: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

Noor Alsalemi, Cheryl A. Sadowski, Naoual Elftouh, Maudeline Louis, Kelley Kilpatrick, Sherilyn K. D. Houle, Jean-Philippe Lafrance

Open Access Nephrectomy Research

Phosphate restriction using a processed clay mineral reduces vascular pathologies and microalbuminuria in rats with chronic renal failure

Jacqueline Hofrichter, Kai Sempert, Claus Kerkhoff, Anne Breitrück, Reinhold Wasserkort, Steffen Mitzner

Open Access Respiratory Microbiota Research

Association of gut microbiota with idiopathic membranous nephropathy

Mengfei Li, Lixue Wei, Jing Sun, Qianshen Zhu, He Yang, Yu Zhang, Chao Zhang, Lin Xi, Rong Zhao, Xuanyi Du

Open Access Anemia Research

Epidemiology and outcomes in patients with anemia of CKD not on dialysis from a large US healthcare system database: a retrospective observational study

Lois Lamerato, Glen James, Heleen van Haalen, Katarina Hedman, James A. Sloand, Amy Tang, Eric T. Wittbrodt, Jerry Yee

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

The burden of renal admissions in a tertiary Hospital in Sierra Leone

Joshua Coker, Onome Abiri, Obinna Jude Nwosu, Alhaji Gbla, Adetunji Wilson Taylor, Durodami Lisk

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

The prevalence of Fabry disease in a statewide chronic kidney disease cohort – Outcomes of the aCQuiRE (Ckd.Qld fabRy Epidemiology) study

Andrew Mallett, Phoebe Jane Kearey, Anne Cameron, Helen G. Healy, Charles Denaro, Mark Thomas, Vincent W. Lee, Samantha Louise Stark, Maria Fuller, Zaimin Wang, Wendy E. Hoy

Open Access Metabolic Alkalosis Case report

Gitelman syndrome with normocalciuria – a case report

Mariusz Flisiński, Ewa Skalska, Barbara Mączyńska, Natalia Butt-Hussaim, Agnieszka Sobczyńska-Tomaszewska, Olga Haus, Jacek Manitius

Open Access Research

Construction and validation of a prognostic model of RNA binding proteins in clear cell renal carcinoma

Wenkai Han, Bohao Fan, Yongsheng Huang, Xiongbao Wang, Zhao Zhang, Gangli Gu, Zhao Liu

Open Access Peritonitis Research

The impact of multidisciplinary pre-dialysis care on the outcomes of incident peritoneal dialysis patients

I-Kuan Wang, Tung-Min Yu, Tzung-Hai Yen, Hei-Tung Yip, Ping-Chin Lai, Chi-Yuan Li, Kuo-Ting Sun, Fung-Chang Sung

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Case report

A patient with severe metformin-associated lactic acidosis complicated by acute coronary syndrome: a case report

N. Mammadova, J. Soukup, P. Shkodivskyi, C. Gudowski, A. Ahmed, R. U. Pliquett

Open Access Coronavirus Case report

Renal artery thrombosis in SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report

Huayan Huang, Chunguang Lin, Yongdong Chen, Xiuting Wu, Miaomiao Lin, Siqi Chen, Kai Li

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Study protocol

Long-term cardio-vascular risk assessment in chronic kidney disease and kidney transplanted patients following SARS-COV-2 disease: protocol for multi-center observational match controlled trial

Laura Tapoi, Mugurel Apetrii, Gianina Dodi, Ionut Nistor, Luminita Voroneanu, Lucian Siriteanu, Mihai Onofriescu, Mehmet Kanbay, Adrian Covic

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Recurrence of IgA nephropathy after kidney transplantation: experience from the Swiss transplant cohort study

Cédric Jäger, Susanne Stampf, Karen Molyneux, Jonathan Barratt, Déla Golshayan, Karine Hadaya, Uyen Huynh-Do, Francoise-Isabelle Binet, Thomas F Mueller, Michael Koller, Min Jeong Kim

Open Access Amenorrhoea Research

Effectiveness and safety of KunXian capsule for the treatment of IgA nephropathy

Wei-Bo Le, Jin-Song Shi, Si-Wen Gong, Fan Yang

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Case report

A suspected case of hyponatraemia induced rhabdomyolysis: a case report

Edward Reakes, Douglas Drak, David Gracey

Open Access Osteomalacia Case report

Dent-2 disease with a Bartter-like phenotype caused by the Asp631Glu mutation in the OCRL gene

Eleni Drosataki, Sevasti Maragkou, Kleio Dermitzaki, Ioanna Stavrakaki, Dimitra Lygerou, Helen Latsoudis, Christos Pleros, Ioannis Petrakis, Ioannis Zaganas, Kostas Stylianou

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

COVID-19 in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Experience from the First Two Waves of Pandemic

Erol Demir, Zuhal Atan Ucar, Hamad Dheir, Ramazan Danis, Berna Yelken, Murathan Uyar, Ergun Parmaksiz, Ayse Serra Artan, Ayse Sinangil, Ozgur Merhametsiz, Serap Yadigar, Ahmet Burak Dirim, Baris Akin, Nurana Garayeva, Seda Safak, Aydin Turkmen

Open Access Kidney Injury Research

Statins attenuate cholesterol-induced ROS via inhibiting NOX2/NOX4 and mitochondrial pathway in collecting ducts of the kidney

Ani Wang, Yu Lin, Baien Liang, Xiaoduo Zhao, Miaojuan Qiu, Hui Huang, Chunling Li, Weidong Wang, Yonglun Kong

Open Access Ultrasound Research

Recanalization of thrombosed aneurysmal hemodialysis arterovenous fistulas using a hybrid technique based on data from a single center

Wei Liu, Meng Wu, Xu Wang, Xiao-kang Huang, Wen-jiao Cai, Teng-yun Ding, Liang-liang Duan, Rui Qiao, Yong-gui Wu

Open Access Ultrasound Research

Enhanced echo intensity of skeletal muscle is associated with poor physical function in hemodialysis patients: a cross-sectional study

Junzhen Wu, Haiqing Luo, Shunrong Ren, Longxiang Shen, Dongsheng Cheng, Niansong Wang

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Case report

Misidentification of preformed anti-HLA-DP antibodies leads to antibody-mediated kidney transplant rejection: a case report

Duangtawan Thammanichanond, Chutima Tammakorn, Atiporn Ingsathit, Suchin Worawichawong, Premsant Sangkum

Open Access Stroke Research

Association of acute kidney disease with the prognosis of ischemic stroke in the Third China National Stroke Registry

Yilun Zhou, Dongxue Wang, Hao Li, Yuesong Pan, Xianglong Xiang, Yu Wu, Xuewei Xie, Xianwei Wang, Yang Luo, Xia Meng, Jinxi Lin, Hong Wang, Yong Huo, Kunihiro Matsushita, Jing Chen, Fan Fan Hou, Yongjun Wang

Open Access COVID-19 Vaccination Research

Response to three doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine: a retrospective study of a cohort of haemodialysis patients in France

Jean-François Verdier, Sonia Boyer, Florence Chalmin, Ahmed Jeribi, Caroline Egasse, Marie France Maggi, Philippe Auvray, Tarik Yalaoui

Open Access Omeprazole Research

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion is associated with different proton pump inhibitor use: a pharmacovigilance study

Mengmeng Wang, Lingjian Zhang, Min Jia, Junyan Wang, Zhiwen Shen, Shuyue Wang, Xinghui Zhang, Jing Xu, Zheng Zheng, Xuanrui Lv, Xiaoyu Zong, Hui Li, Jin Zhou, Tong Meng, Mingzhu Chen, Bin Zhao, Jian Gong

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Survival and predictors of mortality among chronic kidney disease patients on hemodialysis in Amhara region, Ethiopia, 2021

Sewnet Getaye Workie, Taye Abuhay Zewale, Gizachew Tadesse Wassie, Makda Abate Belew, Eleni Dagnaw Abeje

Open Access Ciprofloxacin Case report

First case of a renal cyst infection caused by Desulfovibrio: a case report and literature review

Yoshiki Okamoto, Yoei Miyabe, Momoko Seki, Yusuke Ushio, Keisuke Sato, Eri Kasama, Kenichi Akiyama, Kazunori Karasawa, Keiko Uchida, Ken Kikuchi, Kosaku Nitta, Takahito Moriyama, Junichi Hoshino

Open Access Kidney Injury Research

Biological variation in the serum and urine kidney injury markers of a healthy population measured within 24 hours

Li-Rui Kong, Fei Wei, Da-Hai He, Chao-Qiong Zhou, Hong-chuan Li, Feng Wu, Yu Luo, Jian-wei Luo, Qian-rong Xie, Hai Peng, Yan Zhang

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Bedside rationing and moral distress in nephrologists in sub- Saharan Africa

Gloria Ashuntantang, Ingrid Miljeteig, Valerie A. Luyckx

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research article

Serum leptin level and incidence of CKD: a longitudinal study of adult enrolled in the Korean genome and epidemiology study(KoGES)

Yon Chul Park, Solam Lee, Young-Sang Kim, Jae-Min Park, Kunhee Han, Hunju Lee, Kyung-Won Hong, Jong-Koo Kim, Eun Suk Cho, Tae-Ha Chung, Bom-Taeck Kim, Sang Baek Koh

Vaccination Research

SARS-COV-2 vaccine responses in renal patient populations

Rona M. Smith, Daniel J. Cooper, Rainer Doffinger, Hannah Stacey, Abdulrahman Al-Mohammad, Ian Goodfellow, Stephen Baker, Sara Lear, Myra Hosmilo, Nicholas Pritchard, Nicholas Torpey, David Jayne, Vivien Yiu, Anil Chalisey, Jacinta Lee, Enric Vilnar, Chee Kay Cheung, Rachel B. Jones

Acute Kidney Injury Research article

Uncontrolled pain in critically ill patients and acute kidney injury: a hypothesis-generating cohort study

Laura Herranz Prinz, Isac de Castro, Luciano de Cesar Pontes Azevedo, Jose Mauro Vieira Jr

Open Access Hypercholesterolemia Research

Prevalence of chronic kidney diseases and its determinants among Iranian adults: results of the first phase of Shahedieh cohort study

Ali Dehghani, Sadegh Alishavandi, Nader Nourimajalan, Hossein Fallahzadeh, Vahid Rahmanian

Open Access Research

Central fibrous area in the glomerular vascular pole consists of fibrous collagens and is associated with advanced age: a cross-sectional study

Satoshi Hara, Yutaka Yamaguchi, Takeshi Zoshima, Ichiro Mizushima, Kazunori Yamada, Ryo Inoue, Hisao Muto, Kazuaki Mizutomi, Masayoshi Hirata, Hideo Araki, Ryoichi Miyazaki, Mitsuhiro Kawano

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Psychosocial barriers and facilitators for adherence to a healthy lifestyle among patients with chronic kidney disease: a focus group study

Cinderella K. Cardol, Karin Boslooper-Meulenbelt, Henriët van Middendorp, Yvette Meuleman, Andrea W. M. Evers, Sandra van Dijk

Open Access Peritonitis Research

Incidence and Risk Factors Associated with Technique Failure in the First Year of Peritoneal Dialysis: A Single Center Retrospective Cohort Study in Southern China

Xiao Dong, Haishan Wu, Hongjian Ye, Chunyan Yi, Xiangwen Diao, Ruihua Liu, Haiping Mao, Fengxian Huang, Xueqing Yu, Xiao Yang

Targeting inflammation for the treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease: a five-compartment mechanistic model

Alexis Hofherr, Julie Williams, Li-Ming Gan, Magnus Söderberg, Pernille B. L. Hansen, Kevin J. Woollard

Care Research article

Effectiveness of a brief hope intervention for chronic kidney disease patients on the decisional conflict and quality of life: a pilot randomized controlled trial

Kitty Chan, Frances Kam Yuet Wong, Suet Lai Tam, Ching Ping Kwok, Yuen Ping Fung, Ping Nam Wong

Managing acute presentations of atheromatous renal artery stenosis

Áine de Bhailis, Saif Al-Chalabi, Rodrigo Hagemann, Sara Ibrahim, Amy Hudson, Edward Lake, Constantina Chysochou, Darren Green, Philip A. Kalra

Open Access Research

Stimulated phosphorylation of ERK in mouse kidney mesangial cells is dependent upon expression of Cav3.1

Sudha Priya Soundara Pandi, Michael J. Shattock, Bruce M. Hendry, Claire C. Sharpe

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Elevated parathyroid hormone one year after kidney transplantation is an independent risk factor for graft loss even without hypercalcemia

Manabu Okada, Yoshihiro Tominaga, Tetsuhiko Sato, Toshihide Tomosugi, Kenta Futamura, Takahisa Hiramitsu, Toshihiro Ichimori, Norihiko Goto, Shunji Narumi, Takaaki Kobayashi, Kazuharu Uchida, Yoshihiko Watarai

Pruritus Research

Prevalence of pruritus associated with hemodialysis and its association with sleep quality among hemodialysis patients: a multicenter study

Mefleh Daraghmeh, Montaser Badran, Ahmad Janajreh, Mohanad Hassan, Adham Abu Taha, Amer A. Koni, Sa’ed H. Zyoud

Open Access Research

Chemokine (C–C motif) receptor 2 is associated with the pathological grade and inflammatory response in IgAN children

Yanjie Shen, Zhiqing Zhu, Rui Wang, Lili Yan, Shuaichen Sun, Ling Lu, Zhenhua Ren, Qin Zhang

Open Access Arteriovenous Fistula Study protocol

A randomised control trial protocol of MuST for vascular access cannulation in hemodialysis patients (MuST Study): contributions for a safe nursing intervention

Ricardo Peralta, Anna Wammi, Manuela Stauss-Gabo, Óscar Dias, Helena Carvalho, António Cristóvão

Open Access Vaccination Case report

Sibling cases of gross hematuria and newly diagnosed IgA nephropathy following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

Yuri Uchiyama, Hirotaka Fukasawa, Yuri Ishino, Daisuke Nakagami, Mai Kaneko, Hideo Yasuda, Ryuichi Furuya

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Software

Predicting the survival of kidney transplantation: design and evaluation of a smartphone-based application

Leila Shahmoradi, Alireza Borhani, Mostafa Langarizadeh, Gholamreza Pourmand, Ziba Aghsaei fard, Sorayya Rezayi

Open Access Hyperparathyroidism Research

The rate, cost and outcomes of parathyroidectomy in the united states dialysis population from 2016–2018

Mark D Danese, Kathleen M Fox, Jennifer L. Duryea, Pooja Desai, Robert J Rubin

Open Access Arteriovenous Fistula Research

Direct arterial puncture for hemodialysis, a neglected but simple and valuable vascular access

Chun-Yan Sun, Mi Zhong, Li Song, Ying-Gui Chen, Zi-lin Quan, Li-Yan Zhao, Dong-Mei Cui, Xia Fu

Open Access Research

The direct cost of dialysis supported by families for patients with chronic renal failure in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Amadou Oury Toure, Mamadou Dioulde Balde, Aissatou Diallo, Sadan Camara, Anne Marie Soumah, Alpha Oumar Sall, Karifa Kourouma, Bienvenu Salim Camara, Fadima Yaya Bocoum, Seni Kouanda

Open Access Rasburicase Research

Efficacy and safety of urate-lowering agents in asymptomatic hyperuricemia: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Tunlanut Sapankaew, Kunlawat Thadanipon, Narisa Ruenroengbun, Kamolpat Chaiyakittisopon, Atiporn Ingsathit, Pawin Numthavaj, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk, Gareth McKay, John Attia, Ammarin Thakkinstian

Open Access Care Research

Referral criteria for chronic kidney disease: implications for disease management and healthcare expenditure—analysis of a population-based sample

Simone Kiel, Gesine Weckmann, Jean-François Chenot, Sylvia Stracke, Jacob Spallek, Aniela Angelow

Open Access Ultrasound Research

The evolution of performing a kidney biopsy: a single center experience comparing native and transplant kidney biopsies performed by interventional radiologists and nephrologists

Daria Emelianova, Marios Prikis, Christopher S. Morris, Pamela C. Gibson, Richard Solomon, Geoffrey Scriver, Zachary T. Smith, Anant Bhave, Joseph Shields, Michael DeSarno, Abhishek Kumar

Open Access Urolithiasis Research

A novel mutation of KCNJ1 identified in an affected child with nephrolithiasis

Saisai Yang, Guanghui Yao, Xin Chen, Huirong Shi, Chihhong Lou, Shumin Ren, Zhihui Jiao, Cong Wang, Xiangdong Kong, Qinghua Wu

Open Access Pruritus Case report

One case of arthrogryposis-renal dysfunction-cholestasis (ARC) syndrome featuring an incomplete and mild phenotype

Lianhu Yu, Dan Li, Ting Zhang, Yongmei Xiao, Yizhong Wang, Ting Ge

Open Access Peritoneal Dialysis Research

First-year mortality in incident dialysis patients: results of the Peridialysis study

James Heaf, Maija Heiro, Aivars Petersons, Baiba Vernere, Johan V. Povlsen, Anette Bagger Sørensen, Naomi Clyne, Inga Bumblyte, Alanta Zilinskiene, Else Randers, Niels Løkkegaard, Mai Rosenberg, Stig Kjellevold, Jan Dominik Kampmann, Björn Rogland, Inger Lagreid, Olof Heimburger, Abdul Rashid Qureshi, Bengt Lindholm

Open Access Research

Impact of an intradialysis virtual-reality-based exercise program on healthcare resources expenditure: a micro-costing analysis

Alicia García-Testal, Francisco José Martínez-Olmos, Jose Antonio Gil-Gómez, Javier Villalón-Coca, Rafael Ortiz-Ramón, Alicia Cana-Poyatos, Rafael García-Maset, Eva Segura-Ortí

Open Access Diabetic Nephropathy Research

Serum total indoxyl sulfate levels and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in maintenance hemodialysis patients: a prospective cohort study

Qian Li, Shuang Zhang, Qi-Jun Wu, Jia Xiao, Zhi-Hong Wang, Xiang-Wei Mu, Yu Zhang, Xue-Na Wang, Lian-Lian You, Sheng-Nan Wang, Jia-Ni Song, Xiu-Nan Zhao, Zhen-Zhen Wang, Xin-Yi Yan, Yu-Xin Jin, Bo-Wen Jiang, Shu-Xin Liu

Open Access Obesity Research

Metabolic obesity phenotypes and chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional study from the RaNCD cohort study

Samira Arbabi Jam, Behrooz Moloudpour, Farid Najafi, Mitra Darbandi, Yahya Pasdar

Open Access Diuretics Research

Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting the 6-months survival rate of patients undergoing incident hemodialysis in China

Guode Li, linsen Jiang, Jiangpeng Li, Huaying Shen, Shan Jiang, Han Ouyang, Kai Song

Open Access Care Research

Development of an online patient decision aid for kidney failure treatment modality decisions

Noel Engels, Paul B. van der Nat, Jet W. Ankersmid, Janine C. M. Prick, Ellen Parent, Regina The, Asako Takahashi, Hans A. J. Bart, Cornelia F. van Uden-Kraan, Anne M. Stiggelbout, Willem J. W. Bos, Marinus A. van den Dorpel

Open Access Research

Dysfunction in dynamic, but not static balance is associated with risk of accidental falls in hemodialysis patients: a prospective cohort study

Nobuyuki Shirai, Suguru Yamamoto, Yutaka Osawa, Atsuhiro Tsubaki, Shinichiro Morishita, Ichiei Narita

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

High prevalence of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology among workers in the Mesoamerican Nephropathy Occupational Study

Sinead A. Keogh, Jessica H. Leibler, Caryn M. Sennett Decker, Juan Jose Amador Velázquez , Emmanuel R. Jarquin, Damaris Lopez-Pilarte, Ramon Garcia-Trabanino, Iris S. Delgado, Zoe E. Petropoulos, David J. Friedman, Magaly Rosario Amador Sánchez, Raul Guevara, Michael D. McClean, Daniel R. Brooks, Madeleine K. Scammell

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Case report

Page kidney following spontaneous subcapsular hematoma immediately after kidney transplantation: a case report

Tae Won Lee, Wooram Bae, Jungyoon Choi, Eunjin Bae, Ha Nee Jang, Se-Ho Chang, Dong Jun Park

Open Access Thrombosis Case report

The value of repeat kidney biopsy during an atypical course of membranous nephropathy

Sumaiya Ahmed, David Massicotte-Azarniouch, Mark Canney, Clare Booth, Paula Blanco, Gregory L. Hundemer

Open Access Lymphopenia Research

Risk factors for mortality in kidney transplant recipients with COVID‐19: a single centre experience and case–control study

Devprakash Choudhary, Deepesh Kenwar, Ajay Sharma, Ashish Bhalla, Sarbpreet Singh, Mini P Singh, Vivek Kumar, Ashish Sharma

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

The stay strong app as a self-management tool for first nations people with chronic kidney disease: a qualitative study

Tricia Nagel, Kylie M. Dingwall, Michelle Sweet, David Kavanagh, Sandawana W Majoni, Cherian Sajiv, Alan Cass

Open Access Peritoneal Dialysis Research

A 6-Month clinical practice pilot study of sucroferric oxyhydroxide on nutritional status in patients on peritoneal dialysis

Luis Perez, Zhiying You, Isaac Teitelbaum, Emily S Andrews, Rachael Reddin, Lorena Ramirez-Renteria, Gabriela Wilson, Jessica Kendrick

Open Access Hepatitis B Research

Favorable outcome in PLA2R positive HBV-associated membranous nephropathy

Ruiying Chen, Jia Wang, Qionghong Xie, Jianming Zheng, Shaojun Liu, Jun Xue, Chuanming Hao

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Prediction model of renal function recovery for primary membranous nephropathy with acute kidney injury

Tianxin Chen, Ying Zhou, Jianfen Zhu, Xinxin Chen, Jingye Pan

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Case report

Early graft loss due to acute thrombotic microangiopathy accompanied by complement gene variants in living-related kidney transplantation: case series report

Qianqian Wu, Xiaohui Tian, Nianqiao Gong, Jin Zheng, Dandan Liang, Xue Li, Xia Lu, Wujun Xue, Puxun Tian, Jiqiu Wen

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Reducing disparities in kidney transplantation for Spanish-speaking patients through creation of a dedicated center

Madhura Pande, Monica Grafals, Katherine Rizzolo, Elizabeth Pomfret, Jessica Kendrick

Open Access Correction

Correction: Construction and validation of a prognostic model of RNA binding proteins in clear cell renal carcinoma

Wenkai Han, Bohao Fan, Yongsheng Huang, Xiongbao Wang, Zhao Zhang, Gangli Gu, Zhao Liu

Open Access Alport Syndrome Case report

COL4A4 variant recently identified: lessons learned in variant interpretation—a case report

Jenelle Cocorpus, Megan M Hager, Corinne Benchimol, Vanesa Bijol, Fadi Salem, Sumit Punj, Laura Castellanos, Pamela Singer, Christine B Sethna, Abby Basalely

Open Access Diabetic Nephropathy Research

In-silico analysis of interacting pathways through KIM-1 protein interaction in diabetic nephropathy

F. Abid, Z. Rubab, S. Fatima, A. Qureshi, A. Azhar, A. Jafri

Open Access Research

The relationship between serum uric acid levels and glomerular ischemic lesions in patients with Immunoglobin A nephropathy-a analytical cross-sectional study

Bolong Fang, Yamin Yu, Xiaowei Dong, Lin Qi, Yan Wang, Fang Dai, Lan Wei, Yajie Kang

Open Access Crohn's Disease Research

The pathological and outcome characteristics of renal lesions in Crohn’s disease

Zhihui Yang, Xiaochang Xu, Yejing Dong, Yimin Zhang

Open Access Albuminuria Research

Low-grade albuminuria and its relationship with cardiovascular disease risk in hypertensive and diabetic patients in primary health care

Ramon Augusto Ferreira de Souza, Eunice Ferreira da Silva, Deíse Moura de Oliveira, Renata Maria Colodette, Rosângela Minardi Mitre Cotta, Luciana Saraiva da Silva, Tiago Ricardo Moreira

Open Access Research

Practices and perspectives of patients and healthcare professionals on shared decision-making in nephrology

Sandra van Dulmen, Ruud Roodbeen, Lotte Schulze, Karen Prantl, Maarten Rookmaaker, Brigit van Jaarsveld, Janneke Noordman, Alferso Abrahams

Open Access Research

Living with frailty and haemodialysis: a qualitative study

Hannah M. L. Young, Nicki Ruddock, Mary Harrison, Samantha Goodliffe, Courtney J. Lightfoot, Juliette Mayes, Andrew C. Nixon, Sharlene A. Greenwood, Simon Conroy, Sally J. Singh, James O. Burton, Alice C. Smith, Helen Eborall

Open Access Thrombotic Microangiopathy Case report

TAFRO syndrome with renal biopsy successfully treated with steroids and cyclosporine: a case report

Takahide Iwasaki, Kosuke Mizusaki, Miwa Masumoto, Yuko Minagawa, Kouta Azuma, Tetsuya Furukawa, Makoto Yoshida, Takahiro Kuragano

Open Access Research

Can residual kidney function affect quality of life and cognitive function in hemodialysis patients?

Asmaa Elgendy, Adel I. Abdelsalam, Mostafa Mansour, Mohammed K. Nassar

Open Access Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Case report

A case report of pre-eclampsia-like endothelial injury in the kidney of an 85-year-old man treated with ibrutinib

Amy Li, Sophia L. Ambruso, Ozgur Akin Oto, Marc Barry, Charles L. Edelstein

Open Access Hematuria Research

What happens after the kidney biopsy? The findings nephrologists should know

Daniel Montes, Claire Beamish, Sana Waheed, Fauzia Osman, Laura Maursetter

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Chronic kidney disease awareness among the general population: tool validation and knowledge assessment in a developing country

Samar Younes, Nisreen Mourad, Jihan Safwan, Mariam Dabbous, Mohamad Rahal, Marah Al Nabulsi, Fouad Sakr

Open Access Glucocorticoid Case report

A case of Gitelman syndrome with membranous nephropathy

Xiafei Guo, Shanshen Yu, Jia Sun, Lijun Mou

Open Access Iron Deficiency Research

The effect of intravenous iron supplementation on exercise capacity in iron-deficient but not anaemic patients with chronic kidney disease: study design and baseline data for a multicentre prospective double-blind randomised controlled trial

Sharlene A. Greenwood, Nicholas Beckley-Hoelscher, Elham Asgari, Salma Ayis, Luke A. Baker, Debasish Banerjee, Sunil Bhandari, Kate Bramham, Joseph Chilcot, James Burton, Philip A. Kalra, Courtney J. Lightfoot, Kieran McCafferty, Thomas H. Mercer, Darlington O. Okonko, Benjamin Oliveira, Chante Reid, Alice C. Smith, Pauline A. Swift, Anastasios Mangelis, Emma Watson, David C. Wheeler, Thomas J. Wilkinson, Fiona Reid, Iain C. Macdougall

Open Access Nephrotic Syndrome Research

The clinical and pathological characteristics of IgA nephropathy patients in Tibet

Fenglei Si, Jiarong Mei, Yong A, Chen Tang, Yuxuan Yao, Lijun Liu

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

External validation of six clinical models for prediction of chronic kidney disease in a German population

Susanne Stolpe, Bernd Kowall, Denise Zwanziger, Mirjam Frank, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Raimund Erbel, Andreas Stang

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Pre-operative Waterlow score and outcomes after kidney transplantation

Anna Brotherton, Felicity Evison, Suzy Gallier, Adnan Sharif

Open Access Nephrotic Syndrome Research

Haemostatic profile of children with nephrotic syndrome attending University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku-Ozalla, Nigeria

Chioma L. Odimegwu, Anthony N. Ikefuna, Henrietta U. Okafor, Theresa Nwagha, Agozie Ubesie, Josephat M. Chinawa

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Chronic kidney disease of nontraditional causes in central Panama

Karen Courville, Norman Bustamante, Bárbara Hurtado, Maydelin Pecchio, Clarissa Rodríguez, Virginia Núñez-Samudio, Iván Landires

Open Access Research

Disparities in dialysis modality decision-making using a social-ecological lens: a qualitative approach

Miriam Vélez-Bermúdez, Jenna L. Adamowicz, Natoshia M. Askelson, Susan K. Lutgendorf, Mony Fraer, Alan J. Christensen

Open Access Nephrectomy Research

Evaluation of cerium oxide as a phosphate binder using 5/6 nephrectomy model rat

Akiko Hashimoto, Jiaqi Gao, Yuki Kanome, Yukihiro Ogawa, Masaharu Nakatsu, Masahiro Kohno, Koji Fukui

Open Access Amphotericin B Case report

Peritonitis after exposure to biocontrol-agent fumes containing Talaromyces flavus: a case report in peritoneal dialysis patient

Phanit Sookto, Talerngsak Kanjanabuch, Tamonwan Chamroensakchai, Nisa Thongbor, Somchai Eiam-Ong

Open Access Osteomalacia Case report

Lambda light chain-induced monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance, manifesting with Fanconi Syndrome and osteomalacia

Gabriel Brayan Gutiérrez-Peredo, José César Batista Oliveira Filho, Iris Montaño-Castellón, Andrea Jimena Gutiérrez-Peredo, Edvan de Queiroz Crusoé, Dimitri Gusmao-Flores

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Cost effectiveness of sodium zirconium cyclosilicate for the treatment of hyperkalaemia in patients with CKD in Norway and Sweden

Kun Kim, Josefine Fagerström, Gengshi Chen, Zoya Lagunova, Hans Furuland, Phil McEwan

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Community engagement in kidney research: Guatemalan experience

Angie Aguilar-González, Randall Lou-Meda, André Chocó-Cedillos, Louise Moist

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Prevalence of frailty and cognitive impairment in older transplant candidates - a preview to the Kidney Transplantation in Older People (KTOP): impact of frailty on outcomes study

Amarpreet K. Thind, Annabel Rule, Dawn Goodall, Shuli Levy, Sarah Brice, Frank J. M. F. Dor, Nicola Evans, David Ospalla, Nicola Thomas, David Wellsted, Lina Johansson, Michelle Willicombe, Edwina A. Brown

Open Access Kidney Injury Research

Prediction model of delayed graft function based on clinical characteristics combined with serum IL-2 levels

Shitao Zhao, Yuan Liu, Chen Zhou, Zide Chen, Zeyu Cai, JiaLiang Han, Jiansheng Xiao, Qi Xiao

Open Access Echocardiography Research

Left ventricular myocardial mass index associated with cardiovascular and renal prognosis in IgA nephropathy

Balázs Sági, István Késői, Tibor Vas, Botond Csiky, Judit Nagy, Tibor József Kovács

Open Access Hypercholesterolemia Research

Using CUSUM in real time to signal clinically relevant decreases in estimated glomerular filtration rate

Reyhaneh Zafarnejad, Steven Dumbauld, Diane Dumbauld, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Paul Griffin, Edwin Rutsky

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Association between urinary sodium excretion and hard outcomes in non-dialysis chronic kidney disease patients

Cecília Malheiro Cury, Vanessa Burgugi Banin, Pamela Falbo dos Reis, Jacqueline Costa Teixeira Caramori, Pasqual Barretti, Luís Gustavo Modelli de Andrade, Luis Cuadrado Martin

Open Access Isoniazid Case report

Tuberculosis dissemination in kidney transplant recipient treated with anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody: a case report

Kamila Bednarova, Janka Slatinska, Ondrej Fabian, Pavel Wohl, Emilia Kopecka, Ondrej Viklicky

Open Access Research

Hyperphosphatemia and its relationship with blood pressure, vasoconstriction, and endothelial cell dysfunction in hypertensive hemodialysis patients

Jinwoo Jung, Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter, Hang Nguyen, Jiten Patel, Kamalanathan K. Sambandam, Shani Shastri, Peter Noel Van Buren

Open Access Peritonitis Research

Impact of telehealth interventions added to peritoneal dialysis-care: a systematic review

Geertje K. M. Biebuyck, Aegida Neradova, Carola W. H. de Fijter, Lily Jakulj

Open Access Heart Failure Research

Cardio-renal benefits of sacubitril/valsartan in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease: experience in daily clinical practice

María Dolores Martínez-Esteban, Teresa Vázquez-Sánchez, Rafael Pozo-Álvarez, Alicia Moreno-Ortiz, Juana Alonso-Titos, Guillermo Martín-Reyes, Pedro Ruiz-Esteban, Daniel Gaitán-Román, Domingo Hernández

Open Access Liver Transplantation Research

Modelling kidney outcomes based on MELD eras - impact of MELD score in renal endpoints after liver transplantation

Paulo Ricardo Gessolo Lins, Roberto Camargo Narciso, Leonardo Rolim Ferraz, Virgilio Gonçalves Pereira, Ben-Hur Ferraz-Neto, Marcio Dias De Almeida, Bento Fortunato Cardoso Dos Santos, Oscar Fernando Pavão Dos Santos, Júlio Cesar Martins Monte, Marcelino Souza Durão Júnior, Marcelo Costa Batista

Open Access Erythropoietin Research

A potential link between AQP3 and SLC14A1 gene expression level and clinical parameters of maintenance hemodialysis patients

Rafał Zwiech, Agnieszka Bruzda-Zwiech, Ewa Balcerczak, Joanna Szczepańska, Adrian Krygier, Beata Małachowska, Dominika Michałek, Dagmara Szmajda-Krygier

Open Access Malnutrition Research

Dialysis recovery time: associated factors and its association with quality of life of hemodialysis patients

Mohamed Mamdouh Elsayed, Montasser Mohamed Zeid, Osama Mohamed Refai Hamza, Noha Mohamed Elkholy

Open Access COVID-19 Research

“Role of kidney function and concentrations of BAFF, sPD-L1 and sCD25 on mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19”

Ladan Mansouri, Senka Sendic, Sebastian Havervall, Charlotte Thålin, Stefan H. Jacobson, Joachim Lundahl

Open Access Thrombosis Research

Investigation of risk factors for tunneled hemodialysis catheters dysfunction: competing risk analysis of a tertiary center data

Arash Mohazzab, Morteza Khavanin Zadeh, Paria Dehesh, Neda Abdolvand, Zhaleh Rahimi, Sahar Rahmani

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Development and Validation of a Kidney-Transplant Specific Measure of Treatment Burden

Elizabeth C. Lorenz, Tanya M. Petterson, Isabella Zaniletti, Kandace A. Lackore, Bradley K. Johnson, Martin L. Mai, Sumi S. Nair, Andrew J. Bentall, Kathleen J. Yost, David T. Eton

Open Access Research

The association of urinary prostaglandins with uric acid in hyperuricemia patients

Huagang Lin, Ying Xu, Yuqi Zheng, Deping Wu, Zhibin Ye, Jing Xiao

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research article

Ramadan fasting outcome among high-risk patients

Latifa Baynouna AlKetbi, Nico Nagelkerke, Amal AlZarouni, Mouza Al Kuwaiti, Mona Al Ghafli, Salama Al Qahtani, Bushra Al Kaabi, Mariam Al Kaabi, Ali Al Ahbabi, Yousif Al Zeyodi, Kholoud Al Ketheri, Khawla Al Nabooda, Khadija Al Tenaji, Ali AlAlawi, Hanan Abdelbaqi

Open Access Tacrolimus Research

Anti-phospholipase A2 receptor antibody levels at diagnosis predicts outcome of TAC-based treatment for idiopathic membranous nephropathy patients

Bihua Wang, Zhidan Zhu, Feng Huang, Haowen Huang, Luxia Tu, Ying Wang, Linfeng Zheng, Jing Zhou, Xin Wei

Open Access Research

Apolipoprotein A5 gene polymorphism (rs662799) and cardiovascular disease in end-stage kidney disease patients

Jerry Jacob, Sylwia Boczkowska, Wojciech Zaluska, Monika Buraczynska

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Acute kidney injury in critically ill COVID-19 infected patients requiring dialysis: experience from India and Pakistan

Urmila Anandh, Amna Noorin, Syed Khurram Shehzad Kazmi, Sooraj Bannur, Syed Shahkar Ahmed Shah, Mehrin Farooq, Gopikrishna Yedlapati, Waseem Amer, Bonthu Prasad, Indranil Dasgupta

Open Access Lupus Nephritis Case report

Double trouble - management of perinephric hematoma and renal vein thrombosis post percutaneous renal biopsy

Muhammad Imran Kamarudin, Chandran Nadarajan, Mohamed Ashraf Mohamed Daud

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Absence of long-term changes in urine biomarkers after AKI: findings from the CRIC study

Ian E. McCoy, Jesse Y. Hsu, Joseph V. Bonventre, Chirag R. Parikh, Alan S. Go, Kathleen D. Liu, Ana C. Ricardo, Anand Srivastava, Debbie L. Cohen, Jiang He, Jing Chen, Panduranga S. Rao, Anthony N. Muiru, Chi-yuan Hsu

Open Access Bevacizumab Research

VEGFA promotes the occurrence of PLA2R-associated idiopathic membranous nephropathy by angiogenesis via the PI3K/AKT signalling pathway

Ben Ke, Jinjing Huang, Zhibing Duan, Wen Shen, Yao Wu, Weiping Tu, Xiangdong Fang

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Case report

The systemic immune response due to cholesterol crystal embolization syndrome: a case report

Tetsu Sakamoto, Takafumi Yamakawa, Keita Hirano, Arisa Kobayashi, Mio Kasai, Kiyoshi Koizumi, Takashi Yokoo, Satoru Komatsumoto, Toshimitsu Murohisa, Taro Shimizu

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

The effect of two types of diet on apoptosis indexes, lipid profile and histopathological outcome in acute kidney injury during exercise

Nazanin Sabet, Zahra Soltani, Mohammad Khaksari, Maryam Iranpour, Reza Malekpour Afshar, Fatemeh Mousavi Mehdiabadi, Alireza Raji-Amirhasani

Open Access Chlorthalidone Research

Effect of the combination of bumetanide plus chlorthalidone on hypertension and volume overload in patients with chronic kidney disease stage 4–5 KDIGO without renal replacement therapy: a double-blind randomized HEBE-CKD trial

Fabio Solis-Jimenez, Lucia Monserrat Perez-Navarro, Ricardo Cabrera-Barron, Jesus Antonio Chida-Romero, Geovana Martin-Alemañy, Edgar Dehesa-López, Magdalena Madero, Rafael Valdez-Ortiz

Open Access Vaccination Research

SARS-CoV-2 in dialysis patients and the impact of vaccination

Louise Rachel Moore, Noor Al-Jaddou, Harsha Wodeyar, Asheesh Sharma, Michael Schulz, Anirudh Rao, Kottarathil Abraham

Open Access Sarcopenia Research

Development of a risk prediction nomogram for sarcopenia in hemodialysis patients

Genlian Cai, Jinping Ying, Mengyan Pan, Xiabing lang, Weiping Yu, Qinqin Zhang

Open Access Hypertension Research

Development and validation of algorithms to identify patients with chronic kidney disease and related chronic diseases across the Northern Territory, Australia

Winnie Chen, Asanga Abeyaratne, Gillian Gorham, Pratish George, Vijay Karepalli, Dan Tran, Christopher Brock, Alan Cass

Open Access Correction

Correction: Anti-phospholipase A2 receptor antibody levels at diagnosis predicts outcome of TAC-based treatment for idiopathic membranous nephropathy patients

Bihua Wang, Zhidan Zhu, Feng Huang, Haowen Huang, Luxia Tu, Ying Wang, Linfeng Zheng, Jing Zhou, Xin Wei

Open Access Research

Association between plasma cadmium and renal stone prevalence in adults in rural areas of Guangxi, China: a case–control study

You Li, Kailian He, Liang Cao, Xu Tang, Ruoyu Gou, Tingyu Luo, Song Xiao, Ziqi Chen, Tingjun Li, Jian Qin, Zhiyong Zhang, Jiansheng Cai

Open Access Liver Transplantation Research

Renal histopathological lesions after liver transplantation: What can we find besides calcineurin inhibitor-induced nephrotoxicity?

Haijiao Jin, Yuehan Wei, Yongbing Qian, Jiang Zhang, Yao Xu, Hang Zhou, Minfang Zhang, Wenyan Zhou, Chaojun Qi, Wei Jin, Shan Mou, Qin Wang, Jianjun Zhang

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Long-term outcomes of kidney transplantation from expanded criteria donors with Chinese novel donation policy: donation after citizens’ death

Xiao Fang, Yan Wang, Rong Liu, Changyan Zhu, Chenguang Wu, Fuqiang He, Shunliang Yang, Dong Wang

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research article

Acute kidney injury in Turkey: epidemiological characteristics, etiology, clinical course, and prognosis

Meltem Gursu, Itir Yegenaga, Serhan Tuglular, Belda Dursun, Sibel Gokcay Bek, Simge Bardak, Engin Onan, Serap Demir, Ulver Derici, Ayhan Dogukan, Mustafa Sevinc, Ismail Kocyigit, Eda Altun, Ali Burak Haras, Mehmet Riza Altiparmak, Halil Zeki Tonbul

Open Access Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research

Sysmex UN2000 detection of protein/creatinine ratio and of renal tubular epithelial cells can be used for screening lupus nephritis

Yabin Chen, Yuan Zhao, Zhishan Zhang, Xiang Cheng, Jie Lin, Jiaming Li, Yibo Wu, Zhen zhong Lin, Jing Jing

Open Access Research

APOL1 genotyping via buccal mucosa cell samples to establish risk of kidney disease

Dona Jeanne Alladagbin, Carlos Gustavo Regis da Silva, Luciano Kalabric Silva, Washington LC dos-Santos, Geraldo Gileno de Sá Oliveira

Open Access Care Study protocol

Improving chronic kidney disease detection and treatment in the United States: the chronic kidney disease cascade of care (C3) study protocol

Julio A. Lamprea-Montealegre, Priya Joshi, Abigail S. Shapiro, Erin Madden, Krista Navarra, O. Alison Potok, L. Parker Gregg, Tanya Podchiyska, Amy Robinson, Mary K. Goldstein, Carmen A. Peralta, Simerjot K. Jassal, Sankar D. Navaneethan, Dena. E. Rifkin, Virginia Wang, Michael G. Shlipak, Michelle M. Estrella

Open Access Research

Potential living kidney donors’ positive experiences of an information letter from healthcare: a descriptive qualitative study

Eva Lagging, Kjerstin Larsson, Jonas Wadström, Linda Gyllström Krekula, Annika Tibell

Open Access Glomerulonephritis Case report

A rare case of Immunoglobulin A dominant post-infectious glomerulonephritis (IgA PIGN) in a young patient

A. Saghar, G. Klaus, B. Trutnau, M. Kömhoff, H. J. Gröne, S. Weber

Open Access Polycystic Kidney Disease Research

A disease progression model estimating the benefit of tolvaptan on time to end-stage renal disease for patients with rapidly progressing autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

Gregory Mader, Deirdre Mladsi, Myrlene Sanon, Molly Purser, Christine L. Barnett, Dorothee Oberdhan, Terry Watnick, Stephen Seliger

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Prognostic significance of malnutrition risk in elderly patients with acute kidney injury in the intensive care unit

Na Wang, Ping Wang, Wen Li, Li Jiang, Meiping Wang, Bo Zhu, Xiuming Xi

Open Access Peritoneal Dialysis Research

Unmet needs about iron deficiency in peritoneal dialysis: a Delphi consensus panel

Sandro Mazzaferro, Silvia D’Alonzo, Massimo Morosetti

Open Access Goodpasture Syndrome Case report

A unique case of anti-GBM disease with concomitant anti-PLA2R positivity

Adél Molnár, András Tislér, Deján Dobi, Ákos Pethő

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Extension of Tablo TrEatmeNt Duration (XTEND) study: successful 24 h prolonged therapy with Tablo in critical patients

Tahir Zaman, Kasadi Moore, Jennifer Jellerson, Yaadveer Chahal, Joshua Schumacher, Cynthia Dalessandri-Silva, Michael Aragon

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Limited clinical utility for GWAS or polygenic risk score for postoperative acute kidney injury in non-cardiac surgery in European-ancestry patients

Daniel B. Larach, Adam Lewis, Lisa Bastarache, Anita Pandit, Jing He, Anik Sinha, Nicholas J. Douville, Michael Heung, Michael R. Mathis, Jonathan D. Mosley, Jonathan P. Wanderer, Sachin Kheterpal, Matthew Zawistowski, Chad M. Brummett, Edward D. Siew, Cassianne Robinson-Cohen, Miklos D. Kertai

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Predictors of shorter- and longer-term mortality after COVID-19 presentation among dialysis patients: parallel use of machine learning models in Latin and North American countries

Adrián M. Guinsburg, Yue Jiao, María Inés Díaz Bessone, Caitlin K. Monaghan, Beatriz Magalhães, Michael A. Kraus, Peter Kotanko, Jeffrey L. Hymes, Robert J. Kossmann, Juan Carlos Berbessi, Franklin W. Maddux, Len A. Usvyat, John W. Larkin

Open Access Research

Functional status and caregiver burden of patients on maintenance haemodialysis in Cameroon: a two-centre cross-sectional study

Alex Tatang Mambap, Innocent Abong Che, Maimouna Mahamat, Gloria Enow Ashuntantang

Open Access Peritoneal Dialysis Research

Hyperlipidemia and mortality in patients on peritoneal dialysis

Xiaoran Feng, Xiaojiang Zhan, Yueqiang Wen, FenFen Peng, Xiaoyang Wang, Niansong Wang, Xianfeng Wu, Junnan Wu

Open Access Conservative Therapy Research

Conservative therapy is associated with worse clinical features and biochemical derangements than renal replacement therapy: a retrospective study in Kumasi, Ghana

Perditer Okyere, Isaac Okyere, Grace Essuman, Joseph Attakora, Dorcas Serwaa, Irene Esi Donkoh, Richard K.D. Ephraim

Open Access Anemia Research

Routine laboratory testing in hemodialysis: how frequently is it needed?

Claudia Chidiac, Dania Chelala, Dany Nassar, Chadia Beaini, Hiba Azar, Serge Finianos, Celine Boueri, Jenny Hawi, Ibrahim Abdo, Mabel Aoun

Open Access Research

Health related quality of life of patients undergoing in-centre hemodialysis in Rwanda: a cross sectional study

Gloria Shumbusho, Celestin Hategeka, Marianne Vidler, Jules Kabahizi, Marla McKnight

Open Access Anticoagulant Research

Use of regional citrate anticoagulation with medium cut-off membrane: pilot report

Marija Malgaj Vrečko, Jernej Pajek, Jadranka Buturović-Ponikvar

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Polygenic association of glomerular filtration rate decline in world trade center responders

Farrukh M. Koraishy, Frank D. Mann, Monika A. Waszczuk, Pei-Fen Kuan, Katherine Jonas, Xiaohua Yang, Anna Docherty, Andrey Shabalin, Sean Clouston, Roman Kotov, Benjamin Luft

Open Access Edema Case report

Renal thrombotic microangiopathy and nephrotic proteinuria induced by intravitreal injection of aflibercept for diabetic macular edema

Yawara Kikuchi, Yoshimi Odashima, Kazuhiro Yoshikawa, Tomoyasu Oda, Fumitaka Tanaka, Hiroki Oikawa, Yasushi Ishigaki, Koichi Asahi

Open Access Obesity Research

Waist–hip ratio measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis as a valuable predictor of chronic kidney disease development

Younghoon Song, Jeong Ah Hwang, Jaeun Shin, Eunjung Cho, Shin Young Ahn, Gang Jee Ko, Young Joo Kwon, Ji Eun Kim

Open Access Research

Association of serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D with gait speed and handgrip strength in patients on hemodialysis

Chen Fu, Fengqin Wu, Fang Chen, Enhong Han, Yuehua Gao, Yongxing Xu

Open Access Hyperkalemia Research

A nomogram to predict hyperkalemia in patients with hemodialysis: a retrospective cohort study

Ziwei Mei, Jun Chen, Peipei Chen, Songmei Luo, Lie Jin, Limei Zhou

Open Access Correction

Correction: Does conservative kidney management offer a quantity or quality of life benefit compared to dialysis? a systematic review

Louise Engelbrecht Buur, Jens Kristian Madsen, Inge Eidemak, Elizabeth Krarup, Thomas Guldager Lauridsen, Lena Helbo Taasti, Jeanette Finderup

Open Access Eclampsia Research

Incidence and predictors of acute kidney injury among women with severe pre-eclampsia at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital

Mariam Hassan, Roland Mayanja, Wasswa G.M Ssalongo, Natumanya Robert, Lugobe Henry Mark, Okello Samson, Rose Muhindo

Open Access Arterial Occlusive Disease Research

Serum zinc values, ankle brachial index and mortality in hemodialysis patients

Maša Knehtl, Nejc Piko, Robert Ekart, Radovan Hojs, Sebastjan Bevc

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Association of renal function screening frequency with renal function decline in patients with type 2 diabetes: a real-world study in primary health care

Henry Sundqvist, Eveliina Heikkala, Jari Jokelainen, Giuseppina Russo, Ilona Mikkola, Maria Hagnäs

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Study protocol

Treatment of early borderline lesions in low immunological risk kidney transplant patients: a Spanish multicenter, randomized, controlled parallel-group study protocol: the TRAINING study

Domingo Hernández, Teresa Vázquez-Sánchez, Eugenia Sola, Veronica Lopez, Pedro Ruiz-Esteban, Abelardo Caballero, Eduardo Salido, Myriam Leon, Aurelio Rodriguez, Nuria Serra, Consuelo Rodriguez, Carme Facundo, Manel Perello, Irene Silva, Domingo Marrero-Miranda, Ignacio Cidraque, Francesc Moreso, Luis Guirado, Daniel Serón, Armando Torres

Open Access Glomerulonephritis Case report

Cyclosporine therapy could be considered for membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis with immunoglobulin A deposits: a case report

Yuko Hidaka, Hiroshi Tamura, Keishiro Furuie, Shohei Kuraoka, Hiroko Nagata, Hitoshi Nakazato

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Individual dynamic prediction and prognostic analysis for long-term allograft survival after kidney transplantation

Baoyi Huang, Mingli Huang, Chengfeng Zhang, Zhiyin Yu, Yawen Hou, Yun Miao, Zheng Chen

Open Access Ertapenem Case report

Ertapenem-induced neurotoxicity in an end-stage renal disease patient on intermittent haemodialysis: a case report

Shamira Shahar, Durga A. Arimuthu, Sadanah Aqashiah Mazlan

Open Access Skin Cancer Research

An integrated skin cancer education program in renal transplant recipients and patients with glomerular disease

Zaw Thet, Alfred King-yin Lam, Shu-Kay Ng, Soe Yu Aung, Thin Han, Dwarakanathan Ranganathan, Stephanie Newsham, Jennifer Borg, Christine Pepito, Tien K. Khoo

Open Access Hyperparathyroidism Research

Real-world assessment: effectiveness and safety of extended-release calcifediol and other vitamin D therapies for secondary hyperparathyroidism in CKD patients

Michael J. Germain, Subir K. Paul, George Fadda, Varshasb Broumand, Andy Nguyen, November H. McGarvey, Matthew D. Gitlin, Charles W. Bishop, Philipp Csomor, Stephen Strugnell, Akhtar Ashfaq

Open Access Research

The role of subjective cognitive complaints in self-management among haemodialysis patients: a cross-sectional study

Frederick H. F. Chan, Stanton Newman, Behram A. Khan, Konstadina Griva

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Causes and outcome of acute kidney injury amongst adults patients in two hospitals of different category in Cameroon; a 5 year retrospective comparative study

Teuwafeu Denis Georges, Halle Marie-Patrice, Tonou Sorel Ingrid, Ronald Gobina Mbua, Fouda Menye Hermine, Ashuntantang Gloria

Open Access Peritoneal Dialysis Research

Gene polymorphisms of VEGF and KDR are associated with initial fast peritoneal solute transfer rate in peritoneal dialysis

Yue Qian, Li Ding, Liou Cao, Zanzhe Yu, Xinghua Shao, Ling Wang, Minfang Zhang, Qin Wang, Xiajing Che, Na Jiang, Hao Yan, Wei Fang, Yan Jin, Jiaying Huang, Aiping Gu, Zhaohui Ni

Open Access Hematuria Research

Clinical manifestations and pathological correlation of immunoglobulin A nephropathy in children

Karnchanit Sausukpaiboon, Sunee Panombualert, Suwannee Wisanuyotin, Anucha Puapairoj, Piyanan Suparattanagool, Leelawadee Techasatian, Nattakarn Tantawarak

Open Access Levofloxacin Case report

Granulomatous interstitial nephritis with CTLA-4 haploinsufficiency: a case report

Kaori Kohatsu, Tomo Suzuki, Madoka Takimoto, Katsuomi Matsui, Akinori Hashiguchi, Junki Koike, Sayuri Shirai

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Case report

March hemoglobinuria progressed to acute kidney injury after kendo practice: a case report

Maiko Yoshida, Hitoshi Suzuki, Sho Hamaguchi, Masako Iwasaki, Hiromitsu Fukuda, Hisatsugu Takahara, Shigeki Tomita, Yusuke Suzuki

Open Access Care Study protocol

A study protocol for improving the delivery of acute kidney replacement therapy (KRT) to critically ill patients in Alberta – DIALYZING WISELY

Dawn Opgenorth, Sean M. Bagshaw, Vincent Lau, Michelle M. Graham, Nancy Fraser, Scott Klarenbach, Louise Morrin, Colleen Norris, Neesh Pannu, Selvi Sinnadurai, Shelley Valaire, Xiaoming Wang, Oleksa G. Rewa

Open Access Multiple Myeloma Case report

A multidisciplinary case report of multiple myeloma with renal and cardiac involvement: a look beyond amyloidosis

Samantha Innocenti, Beatrice Bacchi, Marco Allinovi, Federico Perfetto, Elisabetta Antonioli, Niccolo’ Marchionni, Carlo Di Mario, Leonardo Caroti, Francesco Cappelli, Pierluigi Stefàno

Open Access COVID-19 Research

Kinetics of SuPAR hemoadsorption in critical COVID-19 patients on renal replacement therapy

Vaidas Vicka, Elija Januskeviciute, Ieva Bartuševiciene, Donata Ringaitiene, Aiste Aleknaviciene, Mindaugas Serpytis, Laurynas Rimsevicius, Marius Miglinas, Ligita Jancoriene, Jurate Sipylaite

Open Access Arteriovenous Fistula Study protocol

Study protocol for Vascular Access outcome measure for function: a vaLidation study In hemoDialysis (VALID)

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, Alistair R. Mallard, Veronica Oliver, Kevan R. Polkinghorne, Rob R. Quinn, Donna Reidlinger, Matthew Roberts, Bénédicte Sautenet, Lai Seong Hooi, Rob Smith, Maarten Snoeijs, Jan Tordoir, Tushar J. Vachharajani, Raymond Vanholder, Liza A. Vergara, Martin Wilkie, Bing Yang, Theodore H. Yuo, Li Zou, Carmel M. Hawley, Laura Robison, Alyssa Welch, Sunil V. Badve, Neil Boudville, Katrina Campbell, Yeoungjee Cho, Michael Collins, Magid A. Fahim, Meg Jardine, Dianne Du Toit, Michelle Mayne, Kim Stevenson, Rachel James, Quynh Vu, Karyn Allen, Leanne Glancy, Jijo Kumbikkal, Sharan Burton, Lisa Gordon, Kylee McCarthy, Cathy Forrester, Sally Lima, Olivier Bourgault, Claire Drouault, Fanny Teasdale, Liu Wen Jiun, Jamian Abidin, Cheng Jin Kiang, Lee Soon Leng, Yuana Mohd Yusoff, Adriana Ciochina, Magda van Loon, Ronald Ophelders, Marie-Jose Vleugels, Paolo Ferrari, Marie-Ève Brodeur, Davide Giunzioni, Christine Bressan Molfese, Christopher Blackwell, Louese Dunn, Laura Gillis, Barry Gray, Sarah Jenkins

Open Access Hematuria Case report

A case report of atypical anti-glomerular basement membrane disease

Ryo Tamura, Toshiki Doi, Shuma Hirashio, Kensuke Sasaki, Yukinari Masuda, Akira Shimizu, Takao Masaki

Open Access Research

Association of serum klotho levels with different-staged vascular calcification status in patients with maintenance hemodialysis

Yan Lin, Jiayuan Huang, Meiyang Zhou, Cuiping Pan, Aiqin Shan, Canxin Zhou

Open Access Obesity Research

The effect of calcineurin inhibitors on anthropometric measurements in kidney transplant recipients

Emel Isiktas Sayilar, Alparslan Ersoy, Canan Ersoy, Aysegul Oruc, Yavuz Ayar, Deniz Sigirli

Open Access Care Research

Cardiovascular events and mortality in chronic kidney disease in primary care patients with previous type 2 diabetes and/or hypertension. A population-based epidemiological study (KIDNEES)

Oriol Cunillera-Puértolas, David Vizcaya, M. Jesús Cerain-Herrero, Neus Gil-Terrón, Silvia Cobo-Guerrero, Betlem Salvador-González

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Health information sharing on social media: quality assessment of short videos about chronic kidney disease

Lan Yao, Yubao Li, Qinglou Lian, Junjun Sun, Shuyin Zhao, Pei Wang

Open Access Research

Reliability of rubidium-82 PET/CT for renal perfusion determination in healthy subjects

Stine Sundgaard Langaa, Frank Holden Mose, Claire Anne Fynbo, Jørn Theil, Jesper Nørgaard Bech

Open Access Thrombotic Microangiopathy Correction

Correction: Renal thrombotic microangiopathy and nephrotic proteinuria induced by intravitreal injection of aflibercept for diabetic macular edema

Yawara Kikuchi, Yoshimi Odashima, Kazuhiro Yoshikawa, Tomoyasu Oda, Fumitaka Tanaka, Hiroki Oikawa, Yasushi Ishigaki, Koichi Asahi

Open Access Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research

Artificial neural network - an effective tool for predicting the lupus nephritis outcome

Jakub Stojanowski, Andrzej Konieczny, Klaudia Rydzyńska, Izabela Kasenberg, Aleksandra Mikołajczak, Tomasz Gołębiowski, Magdalena Krajewska, Mariusz Kusztal

Open Access Acute Kidney Injury Research

Use of proton pump inhibitors and macrolide antibiotics and risk of acute kidney injury: a self-controlled case series study

Keiko Ikuta, Shunsaku Nakagawa, Chinami Yamawaki, Kotaro Itohara, Daiki Hira, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Yonezawa, Takayuki Nakagawa, Minoru Sakuragi, Noriaki Sato, Eiichiro Uchino, Motoko Yanagita, Tomohiro Terada

Open Access Chronic Kidney Disease Research

Cultural adaptation and validation of the Malay Chronic Kidney Disease Self-management instrument (MCKD-SM)

Ayat Ali Al Sawad, Soo Kun Lim, Li Yoong Tang, Aneesa Abdul Rashid, Boon-How Chew

Open Access Diabetic Nephropathy Research

Histopathology pattern and survival analysis of patients with kidney biopsy in the top end of Northern Australia from 2007 to 2020

Kim Ling Goh, Asanga Abeyaratne, Shahid Ullah, Chris Rissel, Kelum Priyadarshana

Open Access Peritoneal Dialysis Research article

The problem of pulmonary arterial hypertension in end-stage renal disease: can peritoneal dialysis be the solution

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, Dujanah Mousa, Abdulghani Abdulnasir, Sami Skhiri

Open Access Acidosis Research

Electrolyte derangements in critically ill children receiving balanced versus unbalanced crystalloid fluid resuscitation

Natalja L. Stanski, Katja M. Gist, Kaci Pickett, John T. Brinton, Jennifer Sadlowski, Hector R. Wong, Peter Mourani, Danielle E. Soranno, Jessica Kendrick, Erin K. Stenson

Open Access Peritoneal Dialysis Research

The initial attempt at home hemodialysis in mainland China

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, Weiping Li

Open Access Streptococci Case report

Successful treatment of infectious endocarditis-associated glomerulonephritis during active hepatitis C infection: a case report

Anna Zito, Antonio De Pascalis, Vincenzo Montinaro, Paolo Ria, Maria Caterina Carbonara, Emiliana Ferramosca, Marcello Napoli

Open Access SARS-CoV-2 Research

Characterization of regulatory T cells in SARS-CoV-2 infected hemodialysis patients: relation to clinical and radiological severity

Emad Samaan, Marwa O Elmaria, Doaa Khedr, Tamer Gaber, Ahmed G Elsayed, Ragy N Shenouda, Hend Gamal, Doaa Shahin, Nashwa K Abousamra, Rasha Shemies

Open Access Kidney Transplantation Research

Perception of social inequities in the access to the kidney transplant waiting list by nephrology trainees: a national survey

Lucile Paris, Eve Calvar, Rémy Morello, Angélique Lecouf, Mathilde Beaumier, Thierry Lobbedez, Valérie Châtelet

Open Access Constipation Research

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