BACKGROUND Renal disease is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, there are very few published studies about renal insufficiency in HIV-infected persons in Asia, especially in South Korea. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed to investigate the prevalence and risk factors of renal ins...

We report the case of a 65 year old man with recent onset of insulin requiring diabetes mellitus, frequent attacks of anginal chest pain, paroxysmal hypertension poorly controlled with three medications, hyperlipidemia, and mild renal insufficiency. The patient was found to have pheochromocytoma of the left adrenal gland, resection of which resulted in total resolution of diabetes, hyperte...

The effect of pre-operative renal insufficiency on urothelial carcinoma (UC) prognosis has been investigated by numerous studies. While the majority report worse UC outcomes in patients with renal insufficiency, the results between the studies differed wildly. To enable us to better estimate the prognostic value of renal insufficiency on UC, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis ba...

N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is a routinely used prognostic parameter in patients with pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension (PH). As it accumulates in the presence of impaired renal function, the clinical utility of NT-proBNP in PH patients with concomitant renal insufficiency remains unclear. In a retrospective approach, patients with pre-capillary PH (group I or IV) an...

Cardiac surgical treatment of the patients with renal insufficiency became more frequent necessity. Also postoperative renal insufficiency occurs pretty often after cardiac surgery. That is in part a result of broadening of operative indications, which might concern patients with multiple diseases. Patients with renal insufficiency and coexistent heart diseases, patients with endocarditis and p...

T he number of people with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in Canada is increasing. In 1999, 142 individuals per million population were receiving renal replacement therapy, which is an increase from 83 per million population in 1990. 1 The leading cause of ESRD is diabetes (30%) followed by renal vascular disease, including hypertension (20%). Over the past decade, the number of older Canadians...

1. Arterial concentration and arterial-venous differences of glutamine across the kidney, forearm, hepato-splanchnic bed and brain were measured in patients with chronic renal insufficiency and in patients with normally functioning kidneys before and during chronic ammonium chloride acidosis. 2. In chronic renal insufficiency and in chronic metabolic acidosis there is a rise in glutamine releas...

We encountered an unusual and rare case of 59-year-old woman with Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) showing myeloperoxidase anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (MPO-ANCA)-related acute renal insufficiency accompanied by eosinophilic tubulointerstitial nephritis. To date, reports in English of CSS presenting with rapidly progressive/acute renal insufficiency and biopsy-proven renal lesions have been...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus and renal dysfunction are prognostic factors after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, few studies have assessed the effects of renal insufficiency in association with diabetes in the context of AMI. Here, we investigated the clinical outcomes according to the concomitance of renal dysfunction and diabetes mellitus in patients with AMI. METHODS From Novemb...

BACKGROUND Chronic inflammation is proposed to play a central role in the pathogenesis of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and serum bilirubin has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. We investigated the association between serum total bilirubin (Tb) concentration and renal function in an adult population. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study and collected anthropometric measuremen...