MO408OBSTRUCTIVE NEPHROPATHY - STILL PREVALENT DISEASE

Neurocysticercosis is still prevalent in Mexico.

In this work, we report the published cases of human and porcine cysticercosis, as well as Taenia solium taeniasis diagnosed in Mexico during the last 10 years. Numerical data allow us to state that this disease remains as a public health problem in our country. Whereas efficient tools have been developed for the diagnosis and prevention of cysticercosis, we strongly recommend further measures ...

Acute phosphate nephropathy after bowel cleansing: still a menace.

Dear editor: Colonoscopy is critically dependent on adequate pre-procedural bowel cleansing and oral sodium phosphate bowel purgatives (OSP) have been used with good acceptance and efficacy for this purpose. Among others metabolic and clinical disturbances described after the procedure, acute kidney injury may be a serious complication. We present two cases of sodium phosphate induced acute ren...

Comment on: IgM nephropathy: Can we still ignore it.

Adult-Onset Still Disease

We conducted a retrospective observational study to describe a cohort and identify the prognostic factors in adult-onset Still disease (AOSD). Patients enrolled in this retrospective chart review fulfilled either Yamaguchi or Fautrel criteria. Candidate variables were analyzed with logistic unadjusted and adjusted regression models. Fifty-seven patients were seen in the internal medicine (75%) ...

Prevalent peripheral arterial disease and inflammatory burden

BACKGROUND Strong evidence implicates inflammation in the development of atherosclerotic heart disease but less is known about peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Our objective was to test the hypothesis that a composite index of inflammatory burden is associated with PAD. METHODS Cross-sectional analysis of a randomly-selected group of 903 community-dwelling men in the MrOS cohort recruited b...