conclusions fasting in the month of ramadan in two consecutive years, and during the hottest months, in riyadh, saudi arabia, did not adversely affect kidney graft function. objectives to investigate the effect of repeated ramadan fasting during the hottest months of the year on renal graft functions. patients and methods this was a prospective cohort study comparing two groups of renal transpl...

conclusions although our patient had ckd stage 4, but his condition has not deteriorated and remained constant and stable for several years only by control of blood pressure and usual treatment which prescribed for patients at this stage case presentation a 78-year-old man presented with stage 4 ckd for 7 years; the glomerular filtration rate (gfr) and creatinine levels remained constant despit...

conclusions: in this study, kidney transplant recipients with a lower ri and pi and a higher edv at 1week showed better graft function at 6 months after transplantation. results: fourteen patients (15.4%) had impaired graft function after 6 months (gfr less than 60 ml/min/1.73m2). multivariate linear regression analysis showed significant correlation between gfr at 6 months and ri, pi and edv w...

conclusions our results indicated a reversible increase in rbv bioavailability after telaprevir exposure, which might be linked to the impairment of the gfr. this also suggests a rbv-telaprevir pharmacological interaction, a possible source of severe anemia observed under triple therapy. these results suggest that rbv pharmacological monitoring may be clinically relevant, especially in the cont...

background elevated serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (ggt) is predictive of various cardiovascular (cv) risk factors including chronic kidney disease (ckd). elevated serum ggt has been recognized in smokers who are likely to develop ckd, but no study has focused on serum ggt and ckd in smokers. objectives the aim of this study was to clarify the associations between cigarette consumption, elevat...

cystatin c is a 13 kd basic protein that is a member of the cystatin superfamily of cysteine protease inhibitors. the cystatin c gene seems to be a house keeping gene, which is compatible with a stable production rate of cystatin c by most cells. this protein is freely filtered through the glomerulus and almost completely reabsorbed and catabolized by proximal tubular cells. because of these ch...

PA Renal, Winter 2010 Dr. Dave Johnson, Instructor 432 Stella Maris [email protected] Suggested Reading: There is no assigned reading other than this handout. However, a good reference text if you would like to buy one is Koeppen and Stanton’s Renal Physiology, 4 edition, Mosby Elsevier, 2007, For this particular lecture (glomerular filtration), Chapter 3 is the reference chapter to read in this...

background assessment of glomerular filtration rate (gfr) by common creatinine-based methods is potentially inaccurate in patients with cirrhosis. cirrhotic patients have several underlying conditions that contribute to falsely low serum creatinine concentrations, even in the presence of moderate to severe renal impairment. therefore creatinine-based methods usually overestimate true gfr in the...

conclusions functional renal impairment in diseases caused by hcv was more important than in diseases caused by hbv. the egfr was statistically lower in cirrhosis secondary to hcv than in hcv chronic hepatitis. results hbv chronic hepatitis, hcv chronic hepatitis, and cirrhosis secondary to these viruses were associated with a reduction of the gfr. the egfr was higher in patients with hbv chron...

conclusions our study shows a relationship between cimt and renal parameters, including egfr and albuminuria. this study confirms the importance of intensive examinations for early detection of atherosclerosis and treatment of risk factors. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was included 205 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm). we recorded clinical and biochemical data su...