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Dec 2nd, 2021 - We sought to describe the tendency and extent of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) changes in patients with fulminant myocarditis (FM) after admission and to explore the relationship between the in-hospital mortality of FM and the abso...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - To report the long-term efficacy and complications of the augmentation uretero-enterocystoplasty (AUEC), including augmentation cystoplasty with simultaneous ureteroplasty and ureteral anti-reflux implantation in a single center. We retrospectivel...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - The assessment of phosphate homeostasis in clinical practice relies on circulating phosphate levels but also on phosphate tubular reabsorption, ideally assessed using the Tubular maximum Phosphate Reabsorption per Glomerular Filtration Rate (TmP/G...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Spot determinations of the urine creatinine concentration are widely used as a substitute for 24-hour urine collections. Expressed as the amount excreted per gram of creatinine, urine concentrations in a single-voided sample are often used to esti...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Despite renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system blockade and immunosuppressive treatment, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) often progresses to kidney failure. The objective of this pre-specified analysis of DAPA-CKD was to assess efficacy an...

Sep 5th, 2020 - The European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) Guidelines cover key aspects of HIV management with major updates every two years. The 2019 Guidelines were extended with a new section focusing on drug-drug interactions and other prescribing issues in pe...

Aug 2nd, 2015 - The recent guideline for the evaluation and management of Chronic Kidney Disease recommends assessing GFR employing equations based on serum creatinine; despite this, creatinine clearance 24-hour urine collection is used routinely in many settings...

Feb 25th, 2014 - Contrast-induced acute kidney injury or contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) is a significant complication of intravascular contrast medium (CM). These guidelines are intended as a practical approach to risk stratification and prevention. The major ...

Oct 9th, 2009 - This article is a shortened version of the clinical guideline for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), which has been developed in Japan for symptomatic men aged 50 years and over irrespective of presumed diagnoses. The guideline was formed on the...

Nov 25th, 2021 - The study will be conducted in approximately 118 study centers across 12 countries. The overall study period will be around 28 weeks. Approximately 632 participants comprising of 67% diabetic kidney disease (DKD) and 33% non-DKD participants will ...

Nov 25th, 2021 - Background: Smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) is a precursor condition to MM defined by the clinical parameters of M-protein >=3.0 g/dL or bone marrow plasma cells >=10%, and absence of end organ disease. Patients with high-risk SMM have a risk of...

Nov 25th, 2021 - There is a need for better screening of kidney transplant patients for rejection. Patients with kidney transplants are routinely tested (creatinine, urine protein, histology and donor specific antibody (DSA) as standard of care to detect rejection...

Nov 19th, 2021 - Patients and Methods This prospective,cross over study will be conducted after obtaining approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of faculty of medicine Mansoura University. A written informed consent will be obtained from all participan...

Nov 19th, 2021 - Prosthetic paravalvular leaks (PVL) are associated with congestive heart failure and haemolysis, for which the standard treatment is open-heart surgery with the attendant risks to the patient. Transcatheter closure has emerged as an alternative. P...

Nov 18th, 2021 - A 64 year-old man with type 2 diabetes complains of recurrent flushing for the past 6 months. He has had no other symptoms.

Nov 17th, 2021 - Rituximab didn't perform any worse or better at inducing remission after a year in patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) than did conventional treatment with cyclophosphamide in the phase 3 REOVAS trial conducted in Fr...

Nov 5th, 2021 - Twelve weeks of treatment with the thiazide diuretic chlorthalidone led to about an average 10 mmHg cut in systolic blood pressure in patients with treatment-resistant hypertension and advanced stage 4 chronic kidney disease in a randomized study ...

Oct 22nd, 2021 - The FDA has approved the VENTANA PD-L1 (SP263) assay to assist in identifying which adult patients with stage II to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors have PD-L1 expression on 1% or more of tumor cells are eligible to receive adj...

Oct 14th, 2021 - Takeaway Chronic kidney disease (CKD) diagnosed using estimated glomerular filtration rate cystatin C (eGFRcys) was associated with an increased risk of cancer incidence and cancer death. Why this matters Findings warrant future studies to evaluat...