a man with metastatic carcinoma of the colon had a bone scan which revealed urinary retention in the leftkidney. ten months later, a tc-99m-dtpa renai glomerular study showed the left kidney to have only 8% oftotal renal function. fifteen months after that, (he same kidney demonstrated 9% of total function, while theright kidney had evolving obstruction due to his neoplasm. the case shows that ...

objective mercury poisoning is one of the important recent causes of mortality and mortality in children worldwide, particularly in industrial environments; mercury is a poisonous metal, especially harmful to the nervous and immune systems and the kidneys and can even be fatal. elemental mercury is present in thermometers, barometer batteries, sphygmomanometers and latex paints. inorganic mercu...

conclusions se supplementation can increase plasma se concentration and rbc gsh-pxs activity in patients with different stages of ckd. background plasma selenium (se) concentration and glutathione peroxidase (gsh-pxs) enzyme activity of the patients with chronic kidney disease (ckd) are usually lower than healthy individuals; however, the effect of se supplementation on the gsh-pxs activity in ...

background solid organ transplantation patients are at high risk for opportunistic air-borne fungal infections due to using the potent immunosuppressive agents. objectives the current study aimed to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the fungal flora present in the air of kidney transplant unit of baqiyatallah hospital. materials and methods in this prospective study, air samples from pa...

conclusions we can remove the ureteral stent earlier after kidney transplantation with no increase in the prevalence of surgical complications. patients and methods all patients who underwent kidney transplantation from may 2011 until march 2012 in modarres hospital were included in this study. we classified the patients into three groups, based on time of stent removal (10, 20, and 30 days aft...

case presentation the current report presented an eight-year-old girl with microscopic hematuria and chronic abdominal pain along with short review of anatomy, pathophysiology, clinical significance and management of this syndrome. conclusions the nutcracker syndrome should be differentiated from unexplained chronic abdominal pain. introduction renal vein entrapment, named nutcracker phenomenon...

advances in nephrology and pediatric urology have increased the number of children who survive renal disease and become candidates for renal transplantation. ten years of experience in pediatric renal transplantation are reviewed to determine the rates of patient morbidity and graft survival. of the 450 renal transplantations performed in imam reza hospital (1989- 1999), fifty-one were done on ...