COVID-19 and HIV-associated Nephropathies: Double Whammy

Treatment of HIV-Associated Nephropathies

In patients with HIV, the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy has improved life expectancy. At the same time, this increase in life expectancy has been associated with a higher frequency of chronic kidney disease due to factors other than HIV infection. Besides HIV-associated nephropathy, a number of different types of immune complex and non-immune complex-mediated processes have been i...

Treatment of HIV-associated nephropathies.

In patients with HIV, the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy has improved life expectancy. At the same time, this increase in life expectancy has been associated with a higher frequency of chronic kidney disease due to factors other than HIV infection. Besides HIV-associated nephropathy, a number of different types of immune complex and non-immune complex-mediated processes have been i...

Natural products: DNA double whammy.

Varitint-waddler: a double whammy for hearing.

T varitint-waddler (Va) mutant mouse must be the prettiest mouse I have ever seen. The mutation shows semidominant inheritance, and mice carrying one copy of the Va mutation are tricolored, as its name suggests, with variable patches of fur in white, pale gray, and the rich chestnut color agouti (1). It is also deaf and has the classic head-bobbing and circling behavior typical of mice with def...

Double whammy: a tale of two malignancies.

Sharma A, Yesudian PD. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-221148 Description A 61-year-old woman was referred to the dermatology clinic with multiple skin lesions on her scalp and central back. They were relatively asymptomatic but had increased in size over the previous few months. Her medical history was significant as she had a cerebellar medulloblastoma when she was 19 years old that w...