Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) is a major public health problem. Early diagnosis and treatment are basic for its prognosis, and it will be fundamental for the future necessity of substitutive renal treatment. For this purpose, determining the etiology of CRF may be helpful. This study was conducted in the Nephrology Department at the Central Military Hospital in Sana’a, Yemen from 2004 to 2007; to...

Progression to end-stage renal disease is common in chronic nephropathies, independent of the initial insult. While genetic factors may contribute to susceptibility and progression of renal disease, proteinuria has been documented as an independent predictor of outcome. Reduction of urinary protein levels by restoration of glomerular sieving function with renin-angiotensin system (RAS) blockers...

Progression to end-stage renal disease is common in chronic nephropathies, independent of the initial insult. While genetic factors may contribute to susceptibility and progression of renal disease, proteinuria has been documented as an independent predictor of outcome. Reduction of urinary protein levels by restoration of glomerular sieving function with renin-angiotensin system (RAS) blockers...

Hypertension is a common cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and even more common sequelae of CKD. While strict control of blood pressure is essential to preserve residual renal function, numerous clinical trials have demonstrated that inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), i.e. angiontensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB), reduce the pro...

Background: Variation in Renal restive index (RI) values measured using duplex Doppler ultrasonography has been shown to correlate with the degree of renal impairment in acute renal obstruction ,diabetic and hypertensive nephropathy patients. Aims and objectives: The primary objective of this study was to determine whether the intrarenal resistive index can be used as a predictor of progression...