One-third of patients with cirrhosis present kidney failure (AKI and CKD). It has multifactorial causes a harmful effect on morbidity mortality before after liver transplantation. Kidney function does not improve in all transplantation, transplant recipients are at high risk developing chronic disease. The renal dysfunction can be divided into three groups: pre-operative, perioperative post-ope...

background and purpose: kidney failure reduces the kidney function and in long term it leads to chronic kidney disease. one of the main complications of this disease is irreversible damage to the kidneys (end-stage kidney disease) and hemodialysis is the main method used to treat advanced kidney failure. the main problem associated with hemodialysis is treating anemia caused by lack of erythrop...

Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is suggested to be involved in the progression of diabetic nephropathy. We investigated the association of the -2518 A/G polymorphism in the MCP-1 gene with progressive kidney failure in Korean patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). We investigated -2518 A/G polymorphism of the MCP-1 gene in type 2 DM patients with progressive kidney failure (n=1...

Chronic kidney disease is a worldwide health problem. The incidence and prevalence of kidney failure is in constant increase, involving poor outcomes and high costs. The leading causes of kidney failure are type 2 diabetes and hypertension. The new initiative "Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO)" is a global public health approach to face this problem. A formal definition for chron...

conclusions graft failure is more likely to occur in patients with higher serum creatinine levels. results there was a positive association between the serum creatinine level and graft failure (hr = 5.13, p < 0.001). a one unit increase in the serum creatinine level suggests an increased risk of graft failure of up to 5.13 times. the serum creatinine level significantly decreased over time (95%...

a male patient with acute renal failure (arf) due to large b-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma infiltration of kidney is presented. the diagnosis was suspected because of coincidence of arf and tumor lysis syndrome non-responsive to conservative renal therapies. a renal biopsy confirmed diagnosis and appropriate chemotherapy led to complete improvement of renal function.

Cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of morbidity/mortality in the Spanish setting, justifying the extraordinary research effort being made to determine its etiopathogenesis, to predict its prognosis, and to improve treatment. In recent years there has been growing recognition of the role of kidney failure in the overall prognosis of cardiovascular disease.1 Varying in severity, kidney f...

conclusions the major finding of this study is that one unit increase in serum creatinine level suggests an increased risk of graft failure of up to four times. patients and methods this study was carried out at the department of nephrology, baqiyatallah hospital, baqiyatallah university, tehran, iran, between april 2005 and december 2008. during that time period, 461 patients who had undergone...