INTRODUCTION The patient with a solitary kidney and free protein intake can present pathological microalbuminuria. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of Enalapril in patients with single kidney and with or without normoprotein diet. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied 49 patients, mean age 11 years, eutrophics, with normal renal function and with approved medical consent. The exclusion criteri...

PURPOSE We aimed to analyze the changes in kidney function during the postoperative early period caused by the application of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL), which is commonly used in kidney stone surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS PNL was performed in 80 patients (48 men, 32 women) with kidney stones. The mean age of the patients was 43.71 years (range, 18 to 71 years). Preoperative and post...

Human nephrons are formed during fetal life through an interaction between the branching ureteric bud and progenitor cells. The wide variation in final nephron number has been attributed to allelic variants of genes regulating ureteric bud arborization. Here, we hypothesize that dysfunctional variants of the Odd-Skipped Related 1 (OSR1) gene which compromise the renal progenitor cell pool might...

BACKGROUND Dyslipidemia after kidney transplantation is a frequent finding and is multifactorial. Immunosuppressive agents such as cyclosporine (CsA) can cause hypercholesterolemia. OBJECTIVES As there were few reports with conflicting evidence on whether CsA related dyslipidemia is dose related and that CsA monitoring assays (trough level, C0, or two hour post dose level, C2) is a better pre...

INTRODUCTION Despite the introduction of better diagnostic tools, very large kidney tumors are still not so rare in our country. The paper presents our experience in the treatment of 12 patients with kidney tumors larger than 14 cm in size. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between spring 2009 and autumn 2011, radical nephrectomies were performed in 12 patients due to a large kidney tumor (larger than 14 ...

SILBER, SHERMAN, AND RICHARD L. MALVIN. Compensatory and obligatory renal growth in rats. Am. J. Physiol. 226(l) : 114-l 17. 1974.-Renal size and function were studied in three groups of rats in an attempt to gain information relating to the control of renal size. One group consisted of normal rats into which a third kidney was transplanted; a second group consisted of unilaterally nephrectomiz...

The purpose of this work was to investigate the performance of currently available magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for detecting kidney stones, compared to computed tomography (CT) results, and to determine the characteristics of successfully detected stones. Patients who had undergone both abdominal/pelvic CT and MRI exams within 30 days were studied. The images were reviewed by two expert ra...

Purpose: Depressive and anxiety symptoms are common amongst individuals with chronic kidney disease and are known to affect quality of life adversely. Psychosocial interventions have been shown to decrease depressive and anxiety symptoms in various chronic diseases, but few studies have examined their efficacy in people with chronic kidney disease and no meta-analysis has been published. Thus, ...