BACKGROUND To obtain information on cardiovascular morbidity, hypertension control, anemia and mineral metabolism based on the analysis of the baseline characteristics of a large cohort of Spanish patients enrolled in an ongoing prospective, observational, multicenter study of patients with stages 3 and 4 chronic kidney diseases (CKD). METHODS Multicenter study from Spanish government hospita...

The ability of the Modification of Renal Disease (MDRD) equation to predict GFR when compared with multiple other prediction equations in healthy subjects without known kidney disease was analyzed. Between May 1995 and December 2001, a total of 117 healthy individuals underwent (125)I-iothalamate or (99m)Tc-diethylenetriamine-pentaacetic acid (DTPA) renal studies as part of a routine kidney don...

PURPOSE Renal impairment in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients could potentially be caused by many factors. HIV-related renal impairment risks have been little studied in African Americans and Hispanics. We investigated the impact of HIV itself, highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), comorbidities, and non-HIV-related drug treatment on glomerular filtration rate in a pr...

BACKGROUND Heart transplantation is an established treatment for advanced heart failure. However, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important long-term complication of all forms of organ transplantation other than renal. It has been shown that a GFR <60 ml/min is predictive of premature cardiovascular death. MATERIAL/METHODS The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of kidney dysfun...

Introduction: Accurate assessment of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is important in the critically ill. Kinetic estimate GFR (keGFR) considers changes creatinine, creatinine production rate, and volume distribution, hence postulated to be a more accurate GFR, where there are rapidly changing kidney functions. We evaluated association estimated by established equations keGFR with clearance (Cr...

Diabetic nephropathy is one of the complications in DM that can end up becoming kidney failure. Nephropathy complications, if not handled properly, will lead to terminal chronic disease. One factors trigger diabetic patients long-term use oral anti-diabetic drugs. Therefore, proper dosage adjustment these antidiabetic drugs, which are excreted through kidneys, required. The purpose this study w...

Objective: To assess CKD prevalence and risk factors including socio-demography among diabetics by estimating GFR rather than serum creatinine (sCr).&#x0D; Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Dec. 15 2019 through Aug. 2020, 800 attending tertiary diabetes centers, Baghdad. Data collected self-administered questionnaire. SPSS used for data analysis (mean, standard deviation T-test)...

Objective: In this study, we aimed to compare the success and complication rates of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) according preoperative glomerular filtration (GFR) patients who underwent PCNLdue kidney stones. Material Methods: Between January 2012 December 2016, 794 PCNL due Stones were evaluated retrospectively. Preoperative GFR values calculated Cockcroft –Gault formula. The with valu...