Comparison of the malnutrition–inflammation score in chronic kidney disease patients and kidney transplant recipients

Assessment of emotional distress in chronic kidney disease patients and kidney transplant recipients.

OBJECTIVE To assess the presence of emotional distress in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and the effect of kidney transplant on these symptoms. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a two-part study. Part one was cross-sectional, observational, and descriptive, where 75 patients with CKD were evaluated for emotional distress with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) and the Sy...

Differential microvasculature dysfunction in living kidney donor transplant recipients: nondialyzed versus dialyzed chronic kidney disease patients.

We hypothesized that there was differential vasomotor dysfunction in the microcirculation between nondialyzed and dialyzed chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. During live donor kidney transplantation procedures, skin arterioles (SkA; internal diameter = 120 +/- 5 microm) from donors (n = 27) and recipients (nondialysis = 15; dialysis = 20) were dissected from the abdominal wall at the incisi...

[FGF23 in chronic kidney disease and kidney post-transplant patients].

Phosphatonins are regulatory factors of phosphate metabolism and the FGF23 is the best studied of them. This has produced a change in our understanding in mineral metabolism and specifically of phosphate regulation. FGF23 is a 251-amino acid factor that differs from other FGF family members by having a 71-amino acid extension on the carboxyl-terminal end of the molecule that is specific for thi...

Chronic kidney disease stage progression in liver transplant recipients.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There is little information on chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage progression rates and outcomes in liver transplant recipients. Identifying modifiable risk factors may help prevent CKD progression in liver transplant recipients. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS We performed a retrospective review of 1151 adult, deceased-donor, single-organ primary liver...

Covid-19 infection in kidney transplant recipients: a case report