Introduction: Renal ischemia reperfusion (I/R) caused kidney injury gender dependently. High fat diet (HFD) contributes the development of renal dysfunction. L-arginine (L-arg) and regular exercise are recognized to be protective in I/R and lipotoxicity. We compared the role of aerobic exercise and L-arg supplementation against renal I/R in male and female rats fed with HFD. Methods: 54 adult ...

results during 2014, we encountered five patients with suspicious amr or tma at our kidney transplant center. renal biopsy was performed for two of them, suggesting amr for one patient and tma for another patient. all patients were treated with plasmapheresis plus ivig. in this center, as a routine practice, the cumulative dose of 2 g/kg of ivig was divided to 300 - 400 mg/kg after each plasmap...

Cox regression model serves as a statistical method for analyzing the survival data, which requires some options such as hazard proportionality. In recent decades, artificial neural network model has been increasingly applied to predict survival data. This research was conducted to compare Cox regression and artificial neural network models in prediction of kidney transplant survival. The prese...

abstract background: quality of life is a concept, which in recent years is considered as a measure for health in chronic diseases such as kidney diseases. complications of chronic diseases can affect the quality of life in children and their families over time. therefore, empowerment programs are necessary to improve their quality of life. this study aimed to investigate the impact of the fami...

background: cadmium (cd) is not considered as essential element for living organisms, therefore its presence in tissues is considered as toxic element. from food hazards control point of view, information on the distribution of these toxic elements in the animal tissues is very important. the present study was designed to evaluate cd distribution pattern in kidney and liver of broiler chicken. ...

renal actinomycosis is a rare infection, and actinomycosis mostly acts as a normal flora in mouth, colon and vagina. we present a case of 56 years old man, who referred to our center for renal transplantation with kidney stone and diagnosed  with renal actinomycosis.  this case has risen possibility of rare infection that can be considered in the setting of renal transplantation.