Cardiovascular Autonomic Neuropathyin Chronic Kidney Diseases

Metabolic Syndrome, Chronic Kidney, and Cardiovascular Diseases: Role of Adipokines

Obesity is a chronic disease, whose incidence is alarmingly growing. It is associated with metabolic abnormalities and cardiovascular complications. These complications are clustered in the metabolic syndrome (MetS) leading to high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Obesity predisposes to diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive nephrosclerosis, and focal and segmental glomerular sclerosis and r...

Neurologic manifestations in children and adolescents with chronic kidney diseases

Background and Objective: Chronic renal failure (CRF) may have many effects on nervous system and manifest as headache, seizure, dialysis disequilibrium syndrome, cerebral hemorrhage, hypertensive encephalopathy, uremic neuropathy, and some neurologic complications of transplantation. In this present study we investigate neurologic disorders in children with CRF. Methods: In this descriptive...

Cardiovascular Diseases in Kidney Transplantation

[Cardiovascular, renal and other chronic diseases. Early intervention is necessary in chronic kidney disease].

Correspondence: Ángel Luis Martín de Francisco Servicio de Nefrología. Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. Santander. España. [email protected] I n a meeting at the Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Centre (CNIC) in Madrid to discuss the need for earlier diagnosis and initiation of treatment in cases of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Spain (a relatively unknown illness in its...

Autophagy in Chronic Kidney Diseases.

BACKGROUND Autophagy is the degrading process of protein and organelles mediated by lysosomes. This process is involved in purging senescent organelles and subversive proteins while maintaining the stability of the intracellular environment. This phenomenon is highly conservative, existing in nearly every species, and is involved in cell growth, proliferation and tumorigenesis. SUMMARY In rec...