Successful treatment of acute p ...
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) has the best prognosis among acute leukemias, but there is little data about APL in patients on hemodialysis. A 6 ...
Effect of anemia on cardiac dis ...
Introduction Anemia is a common complication of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), which not only lowers their quality of life but also pot ...
A case presenting with rapid re ...
A 69-year-old man was referred to our hospital for severe anemia. The atypical lymphocyte count, including granular lymphocytes, was 2,750/lL. Lymph ...
A case report of retroaortic le ...
A 75-year-old woman was referred to our department for evaluation of a left renal tumor. Computed tomography and other imaging studies demonstrated ...
The effects of raloxifene on bo ...
Background Bone disease is caused not only by increased bone turnover accompanying secondary hyperparathyroidism but also by factors such as bone me ...
A rare case of malignant-phase ...
Malignant-phase hypertension is characterized clinically by severe accelerating hypertension with neuroretinopathy or papilledema and by evidence of ...
Successful steroid treatment of ...
The patient was a 54-year-old woman with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) who developed complicating systemic sarcoidosis. Hyper ...
Clinical remission of Henoch–Sc ...
We herein describe an adult male patient who presented with tonsillitis, purpura, hematuria, and proteinuria. The serological analyses revealed elev ...
Rituximab in the treatment of a ...
A 31-year-old woman with nephronophthisis received a cadaveric kidney transplant, and was immunosuppressed with cyclosporine, azathioprine and stero ...
Imaging of acquired cystic dise ...
The preoperative assessment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) complicated with acquired renal cystic disease in a 63-year-old male patient on long-term ...
Natural history of renal cell c ...
A 53-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a non-metastatic 4 cm renal mass in the right kidney. The patient rejected treatment, but consent ...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a ...
A 68-year-old female in hemodialysis due to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease underwent resection of cysts in her right kidney via a lapa ...
Influence of erythropoietin-sti ...
Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is used to assess glycemic control in diabetic patients. Erythropoietin-stimulating agent (ESA) treatment decreases HbA1 ...
A suspected case of paradoxical ...
We experienced a case of cryptogenic renal infarction in a previously healthy 60-year-old man. He had no systemic atherosclerotic changes. Holter mo ...
The renal cyst infection caused ...
A 40-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital for investigation of fever and right flank pain starting after watery diarrhea. Salmonella e ...
Tumoral calcinosis associated w ...
A 56-year-old male with chronic renal failure was admitted to the hospital because of progressive hip pain, appetite loss, general fatigue, and hype ...
Atheroembolic renal disease wit ...
Atheroembolic renal disease is caused by foreign- body reaction to cholesterol crystals flushed from the atherosclerotic plaques into the small-vess ...
Resolution of clinical and path ...
C1q nephropathy is a rare idiopathic glomerulopathy characterized by mesangial deposition of immunoglobulin and complement with C1q dominance or co ...
Acute peritonitis due to Coryne ...
A 55-year-old Japanese woman receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) was admitted to our service with abdominal pain and cloudy p ...
Augmented antihypertensive effe ...
A 38-year-old female patient on peritoneal dialysis (PD) due to type 1 diabetic nephropathy with a wellpreserved residual renal function did not res ...
Transplantation-associated thro ...
Transplantation-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA-TMA) is a rare but devastating syndrome that occurs in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell ...
Methicillin-resistant Staphyloc ...
We believe that bacterial-infection-associated glomerulonephritis (GN), so-called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-GN, was extermi ...
Significance of past history of ...
Background Clinical information regarding risk factors may be helpful in the detection of various diseases. This cross-sectional study examined the ...
Acute systemic hypotension afte ...
We report the case of a 53-year-old hemodialysis patient with severe aortic stenosis, who developed acute systemic hypoperfusion after arteriovenous ...
Peritonitis is still an importa ...
Background In Japan, the population of patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) is\4% of the total number of patients with end-stage renal disease. Few ...