Myeloperoxidase-antineutrophil ...
A 60-year-old Japanese man exhibited rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis 10 years after receiving prednisolone therapy for clinically amyopathic ...
Renal paradoxical embolism in a ...
A 22-year-old woman, who often carried heavy books, was admitted for evaluation of hyperreninemic hypertension. Two months prior to admission, she n ...
The relationship between renal ...
Background In patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), renal cysts grow exponentially. Since remaining renal parenchyma h ...
Nephrotic syndrome and renal fa ...
This report presents a case of nephrotic syndrome and renal failure that developed in a 53-year-old female with metastatic breast carcinoma. She was ...
Use of small doses of furosemid ...
Background The objective of the present study was to verify whether chronic renal patients on hemodialysis (HD) with residual diuresis who were usin ...
How to treat patients with syst ...
Background High-dose melphalan and autologous stem cell transplantation (HDM) is an effective treatment for systemic amyloid light chain (AL) amyloi ...
Risk factors for metabolic synd ...
Background The prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in renal transplant recipients (RTR) is still under investigation. Methods We performed a cros ...
Renal amyloidosis caused by apo ...
Although the majority of renal amyloidosis is caused by either acquired monoclonal immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis or reactive systemic amylo ...
A case of a 6-year-old girl wit ...
Maki Shimizu , Takanori Sekiguchi , Natsuko Kishi , Aya Goji , Tomoko Takahashi , Hiroko Kozan , Zenichi Sakaguchi , Yukiko Kinoshita , Sato Matsuura ...
Altered monocyte-derived dendri ...
Background Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are known to have impaired immune function. Dendritic cells (DCs) are the major antigen-pres ...
Nephrologist care for 12 months ...
Background The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of early referral (ER) to nephrologists on the type of vascular access (VA) availa ...
A review of the reported cases ...
Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a clinical syndrome in which the clinical symptoms of intestinal obstruction appear without mechanical obstruction ...
Chemoprevention against hepatoc ...
Since the majority of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) arises from a background of chronic liver diseases caused by infection with hepatitis C virus ( ...
Sigmoid colon carcinoma that de ...
We report a case of sigmoid colon carcinoma that developed from a sessile-type cancer in a short period of time. An 83-year-old man was found to hav ...
Proton pump inhibitors: use, mi ...
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are widely used in acid-related disorders of the stomach and oesophagus. Treatment with PPIs is usually extended indef ...
Portal vein thrombosis associat ...
We report the case of a 52-year-old male who was admitted for sudden abdominal pain and hematochezia. Colonoscopy showed erosion and edema in the mu ...
Peritoneal amyloidosis: unusual ...
Amyloidosis is a rare disease that results from the extracellular deposition of amorphous fibrillar protein. It is usually observed in a systemic fo ...
A rare case of Barrett’s adenoc ...
We present a rare case of Barrett’s cancer with a particular histology composed of various differentiated adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carc ...
Lethal nature of ischemic gastr ...
Celiomesenteric ischemia has an insidious onset and the non-specific symptoms are often misdiagnosed as cholecystitis or peptic ulcer disease with a ...
Granulocyte-colony-stimulating ...
We report a case of granulocyte-colonystimulating factor (G-CSF)-producing gastric metastasis from large cell type lung cancer. A 73-year-old man pr ...
Successful treatment of ulcerat ...
Ulcerative colitis is occasionally complicated by dermatological disorders presenting as extra-intestinal manifestations, including erythema nodosum ...
A case of eosinophilic esophagi ...
Eosinophilic esophagitis is a rare chronic disease that mainly occurs in middle-aged males. Treatment with a glucocorticoid and/or proton pump inhib ...
A case of complete resolution o ...
Colonic diverticulosis is now a common global disease, but the treatment has conventionally been directed towards its associated complications, such ...
Fatal interstitial pneumonia as ...
Oxaliplatin in combination with 5-fluorouuacil and leucovorin (FOLFOX) is one of the most commonly used first-line chemotherapies for patients with ...
Diagnosis of gastric antral vas ...
The endoscopic appearance of gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) can be easily misinterpreted as inflammatory changes of gastric mucosa. We repor ...