Variable renal phenotype in a f ...
Recent advances in the genetics of glomerular diseases have identified several causative genes of nephrotic syndrome and/or glomerular proteinuria. ...
Kidney and urinary tract develo ...
Development of the mammalian urogenital system requires a balance between survival and programmed cell death. Pro-survival molecules are crucial in ...
Effect of diet, enalapril, or l ...
Proteinuria is the main indicator of renal disease progression in many chronic conditions. There is currently little information available on the ef ...
Clinical outcomes in children w ...
Henoch.Schonlein purpura (HSP) is one of the most common causes of systemic vasculitis in children. The incidence of HSP nephritis (HSPN) among HSP ...
Protective effects of Huang Qi ...
Huang Qi Huai (HQH) granules, a mixture of Chinese herbs, contains trametes robiniophila murr, wolfberry fruit, and Polygonatum. We investigated the ...
Alport syndrome and leiomyomato ...
Alport syndrome (ATS) is a nephropathy characterized by the association of progressive hematuric nephritis with ultrastructural changes of the glome ...
Treatment strategies for Henoch ...
The management of Henoch-Schonlein purpura nephritis (HSPN) is controversial. It has been revealed that some patients develop end-stage renal diseas ...
Four family cases of acute rena ...
Cortinarius poisoning is a rare syndrome that is responsible for a delayed toxic tubulointerstitial nephritis that can induce severe acute or chroni ...
Acute reversible changes of bra ...
Acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN) is the most common form of postinfectious nephritis worldwide. The relationship between inflammat ...
An unusual case of gross hematu ...
Acute renal failure (ARF) is a rare but well-known complication of massive gross hematuria and has been reported in immunoglobulin (Ig)A nephropathy ...
Glomerular basement membrane co ...
The glomerular basement membrane (GBM) is an especially thick basement membrane that contributes importantly to the kidney’s filtration barrier. The ...
Nephrotic syndrome in The Nethe ...
Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is a clinical diagnosis with proteinuria, hypoalbuminaemia and oedema. NS is rare in children, and its incidence in The Neth ...
Plasma from a case of recurrent ...
The MYH9 gene encodes a non-muscle myosin IIA heavy chain (NMMHC-IIA) expressed in podocytes. Heterozygous MYH9 mutations cause a set of overlapping ...
HNF1B and PAX2 mutations are a ...
Malformations of the kidney and lower urinary tract are the most frequent cause of end-stage renal disease in children. Mutations in HNF1آ and PAX2 ...
Letter to the Editor regarding ...
This letter is in reference to the article by Di Cesare et al. [1], regarding the association of anorectal malformations (ARMs) and neurospinal dysr ...
Unilateral localized cystic kid ...
ADPKD is the clinical manifestation of a genetic defect that is typically thought to be a bilateral renal cystic disease of adults, since children a ...
Clinical and laboratory feature ...
OCRL mutations, which are a hallmark of Lowe syndrome, have recently been found in patients with isolated renal phenotype (Dent-2 disease). In this ...
Age-related stature and linear ...
Children with X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets (XLH) are prone to severe stunting. A multicenter mixed-longitudinal study was conducted to assess a ...
Semaphorins in kidney developme ...
Semaphorins are guidance proteins that play important roles in organogenesis and disease. Expression of class 3 semaphorins and their receptors is r ...
The impact of pediatric nephrot ...
The objective of our study was to assess the psychologic and economic effects of pediatric nephrotic syndrome (NS) on caregivers. Caregivers of 50 c ...
An unusual case of hyperkalaemi ...
PHA type II is a rare but interesting disorder because of the unusual association of hypertension with hyperkalemia which appears to indicate a disa ...
Hypochloremic metabolic alkalos ...
CLD is a rare autosomal recessive disease occurring mainly in people in Arabian countries, Finland, and Poland [1–3]. It is characterized by unremit ...
Renal manifestations of patient ...
MYH9-related disorders are a group of autosomal, dominantly inherited disorders caused by mutations of the MYH9 gene, which encodes the non-muscle m ...
Pathogenesis, diagnosis and man ...
Hyperkalemia is a potentially life-threatening condition in which serum potassium exceeds 5.5 mmol/l. It can be caused by reduced renal excretion, e ...
Imaging of the urinary tract: t ...
Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are increasingly valuable tools for assessing the urinary tract in adults and children ...