INTRODUCTION Renal transplantation is the best treatment for end-stage renal disease. In the last years, we have seen improvements in immunosuppressive treatment, which have allowed patients to experience a better quality of life and graft survival. Nevertheless, surgical complications remain important problems that increase morbidity, mortality, costs, and hospitalization. Our purpose was to e...

objective(s):hyperglycemia mediated oxidative stress plays a key role in the pathogenesis of diabetic complications like nephropathy. in the present study, we evaluated the effect of ethanolic extract of ensete superbum seeds (esse) on renal dysfunction and oxidative stress in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. materials and methods:glucose, hba1c, total protein, albumin, renal function mark...

of chronic renal disease (CRD). In contrast with patients who have acute renal disease, most patients with CRD progressively and irreversibly lose renal mass and the ability to carry out critical renal functions. If untreated, patients will have life-threatening complications develop. Treatment modalities such as dialysis and renal transplantation greatly reduce the risk of such complications, ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess renal or abdominal visceral complications after open aortic surgery (OAS) requiring supra-renal aortic cross clamping (SRACC). METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 66 patients who underwent SRACC. Among them, 17 followed supra-celiac aortic cross clamping (SCACC) procedure, 42 supra-renal, and 7 inter-renal aorta. Postoperative...

abstract pseudoxanthoma elasticum is a rare, hereditary, multisystemic disease affecting the skin, eye, and cardiovascular system. renal involvement is uncommon. we describe two cases of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (pxe) in two women with distinctive skin lesions and nephrocalcinosis that renal ultrasonography showed a characteristic pattern of dotted increased echogenicity in the corticomedullary...

introduction: kawasaki disease is a common vasculitis with the potential to debilitate all the organs. yet, it commonly affects the heart, the skin,and the lymph nodes. kidney complications resulted from this condition is not usually associated with any symptoms and can only be detected in the lab. nevertheless, in some cases, severe kidney complications are apparent. this study reports a kawas...

uretero pelvic junction (upj) obstruction is a common cause of hydronephrosis in infants. the frequent use of fetal ultrasound is allowing early (prenatal) diagnosis of numerous uropathies previously delayed until the child either became symptomatic or had a palpable mass. newborn with severe obstruction often has marked improvement following correction, therefore, early diagnosis and operation...

to find if some indices have predictive value for renal complications. we conducted a cross sectional and included 80 patients with the age ranged 5-17 years, all with the proven diagnosis of β-thalassemia major. a urine and 5 ml of blood sample were obtained from all of the cases. biochemical indices such as serum levels of creatinine, na, mg, hb, and ferritin and also urine levels of na, mg, ...