Background: Rosmarinus officinalis is a useful medicinal plant with numerous ethnopharmacological applications and widespread use in the industry. The main constituent of this plant is essential oil. There is a misconception that there is no restriction to using medicinal plants. The present study examined the effects of the chronic administration of Rosemarinus officinalis essential oil on the...

Salak seed are used as natural diuretics, it's contain secondary metabolites i.e alkaloids, flavonoids and tannins. Diuretics compounds that can increase the rate of excretion urine volume mineral salts in urine. The study was to determine diuretic effect salak extract on histopathological structure kidney. made by maceration method using 70% ethanol then evaporated. Rats were divided into 4 tr...

Abstract Detailed extraparenhymal renal hilar dissection was performed on 110 fixed cadaveric kidneys (60 from male cadavers and 50 female cadavers). We analyzed the number of arteries, angles between arteries abdominal aorta, length diameter arteries. Multiple were present in 20.9% cases, with a slightly higher incidence right side (21.8%: 20.0%). The angle aorta RRA varied 30° to 100° mean 64...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) leads to uremia. CKD is characterized by a gradual increase in kidney fibrosis and loss of kidney function, which is associated with a progressive increase in risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular death. To prevent progression of both kidney fibrosis and atherosclerosis in uremic settings, insight into new treatment options with effects on both parameters is wa...

BACKGROUND The Trendelenburg position has been suggested for right internal jugular vein (RIJV) catheterization. However, this position can sometimes be functionally intolerable for chronic kidney disease patients. We conducted an ultrasound study to further investigate the efficacy of the use of the Trendelenburg position during tunneled dialysis catheter insertion via the RIJV in chronic kidn...

BACKGROUND Although ultrasonography before a vascular access (VA) operation has become popular in recent years, benchmarks for the diameter or blood flow of arteries or veins are not defined in Japan. The objective of the present study is to analyze the relationship between preoperative US findings and the patency rate of VA in Japanese hemodialysis patients. METHODS 139 patients with end sta...

To investigate gender differences with regard to age-related changes in the mouse kidney, kidneys from male and female C57BL/6Cr mice were morphometrically examined at 2, 4, 12, 27 and 33 months of age. Gender differences were clearly observed in age-related changes in renal corpuscle diameter, in addition to semiquantitative scores of glomerular damage and interstitial fibrosis. A greater rela...

Objective To identify the clinical and laboratory predictors of short-term mortality in patients with acute heart failure (AHF). Subjects and methods We conducted a prospective, single center study on 120 consecutive patients presented with acute heart failure to the emergency department. All patients had clinical, laboratory, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic evaluation. Short-term ...

A case of leiomyoma of the kidney is reported. A 57-year-old man with the chief complaint of right back pain was consulted to our hospital. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a right renal tumor. Right renal angiography revealed a hypovascular lesion. Under the diagnosis of right renal tumor, right radical nephrectomy was performed. Gross evaluation revealed a well encapsulated sol...

PURPOSE Renal parenchymal volume decrease after partial nephrectomy is associated with late functional outcomes. We examined the relative effects of resection related and atrophy related volume change on late kidney function. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were analyzed from a cohort of 187 patients who underwent open, laparoscopic or robotic partial nephrectomy between 2009 and 2011. Total chang...