See Workup for more detail. Management Early diagnosis and treatment of the underlying cause and/or institution of secondary preventive measures is imperative in patients with CKD. These may slow, or possibly halt, progression of the disease. The medical care of patients with CKD should focus on...
High mobility group box protein-1 correlates with renal function in chronic kidney disease - Bruchfeld - 2008 () Citation Context ...ing two (cases 13 and 32) were biopsied and sampled during workup for suspected AAV with renal involvement. HMGB1 was analyzed by Western blot in the sera ...
In recent years Erectile Dysfunction (ED) has emerged as an independent predictor of cardiovascular (CV) events. The impact was so great that some attempts have been made to implement ED in well-known CV risk scoring systems. ED has been described as just one manifestation of the generalized ...
Methods. The INCIPE study identified 524 CKD cases (using the K/DOQI definition based on albuminuria and eGFR) in a random sample of 4000 Italians >40 years old, 262 of whom were randomly chosen to be investigated in order to confirm their CKD and complete a diagnostic workup. We a ...
In 2021, the EUROD initiative launched virtual clinical-pathological case conferences to discuss challenging cases of patients with CKD-associated osteoporosis, in whom a bone biopsy was useful in the diagnostic workup. Out of these, we selected four representative cases and asked a kidney–bone ...