Impaired kidney function is often associated with acute decompensation of chronic heart failure and portends a poor prognosis1. The progressive nature of heart failure and limited survival during end stages necessitates advanced therapies. These options may include consideration for transplantation or bridg...
Although many studies assessing the accuracy of estimation equations found CKD-EPI to be closest to measured GFR, most labs are still reporting CG and MDRD as an assessment of renal function. Each of these equations have been developed in different patient populations and include different variables...
Genes such as Pkd1 and Bicc1 identified in this screen as causing prenatal cysts are unlikely to function in centriole docking, but may play a role in signalling downstream of ciliary assembly. The association of CHD with renal anomalies is not restricted to mice, as we also found a high ...
1. Tubing problems are a common cause of outflow difficulties, check the tubing for kinks and ensure that all clamps are open. Other measures include having the patient change positions (moving side to side or sitting up), applying gentle pressure over the abdomen, or having a bowel movement...
aberrations observed in ccRCC also include a high rate of mutation in genes that control the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) pathways, downregulation of protein kinase AMP-activated catalytic subunit alpha 2 (AMPK) and upregulation of acetyl-CoA ...
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Long-term outcomes after acute kidney injury (AKI) include incremental loss of function and progression towards chronic kidney disease (CKD); however, the pathogenesis of AKI to CKD remains largely unknown. Clusterin (CLU) is a chaperone-like protein that reduces ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) ...
Boxplot statistics have been derived with the geom_boxplot function of the ggplot2 package in R; y-axis: standardized relative value of radiomics features; dots represent outlier data beyond the end of the whiskers *: p < 0.05. 4. Discussion In this study, we combined the radiomics ...
Renal failure is the partial or complete failure of the kidneys to function. An extremely serious condition, renal failure usually...
For the CRRT cohorts at UCLA and Cedars, we constructed the final binary target from four clinical outcomes: recover renal function, transition to hemodialysis (inpatient), comfort care, and expired. The former two represented conditions in which we would recommend CRRT (a positive sample). We ...