Nephronophthisis
Taking the pulse of a sick kidn ...
Arterial stiffness is an increasingly recognized independent predictor of cardiovascular morbidity. Vessel volume and wall texture are the main dete ...
Renal artery stenosis: is angio ...
Renovascular hypertension (RVH) is an unusual cause of hypertension in children that is important to diagnose as it is potentially curable with angi ...
The primary cilium in different ...
Primary cilia are specialized organelles consisting of an axoneme anchored to the plasma membrane through the basal body consisting of two centriole ...
Nephronophthisis
Nephronophthisis (NPHP) is an autosomal recessive cystic kidney disease and the most frequent genetic cause of end-stage renal disease up to the thi ...
Parathyroid hormone and growth ...
Growth failure is common in children with chronic kidney disease, and successful treatment is a major challenge in the management of these children. ...
Defining and redefining the nep ...
It has long been appreciated that the mammalian kidney arises via reciprocal interactions between an epithelial ureteric epithelium and the surround ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Urinary MMP-9/NGAL complex in c ...
The matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) and neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL) are shown to increase in an inflammatory situation. Bas ...
Cyclosporin A therapy for Henoc ...
To evaluate the therapeutic role of cyclosporin A (CyA) for the treatment of Henoch–Schِnlein nephritis (HSN), 29 patients (18 boys, 11 girls) with ...
Isoprostane levels in urine of ...
Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is the most common cardiovascular abnormality of the preterm infant usually treated with ibuprofen (IBU). PDA is stri ...
Successful treatment and cleari ...
Sirs, The long-term prognosis of idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN) in children and therapeutic options for IMN are controversial. The disease ...
Transient hyperoxaluria in a pa ...
Sirs, Persistent secondary hyperoxaluria has been reported in few patients affected by distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) [1]. Hyperoxaluria is a ...
Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 200 ...
Sirs, Influenza A virus-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) has been very rarely recognized in children and only five patients have been rep ...
Comparison of bone age readings ...
Background Pediatric endocrinologists at a children’s hospital were concerned that bone age readings by radiologists frequently differed from their ...
Brown adipose tissue 18F-FDG up ...
Positron emission tomography (PET) using [F-18] 2-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) fused with CT (18F-FDG PET/CT) has been widely adopted in oncological ...
Haemodynamic findings on cardia ...
In patients with congenital heart disease, haemodynamic findings demonstrated on cardiac CT might provide useful hints for understanding the haemody ...
Posttraumatic high-flow priapis ...
Background Usually high-flow priapism is caused by perineal or penile blunt trauma with direct cavernosal artery injury and formation of an arterial ...
Gallbladder volvulus in a child ...
Gallbladder volvulus in children is rare. Preoperative diagnosis is considered difficult because of the nonspecific symptoms and inflammatory blood ...
MR findings of synovial disease ...
Synovium is the thin membranous lining of a joint. It produces synovial fluid, which lubricates and nourishes the cartilage and bone in the joint ca ...
Toward Elucidating the Full Spe ...
Our research has focused on the molecular design of immunotherapeutic vaccines and the advancement of mite-allergy diagnosis. Here, we describe the r ...
Biodegradable laminar implants ...
Due to its short half-life, renal toxicity and necessity for daily subcutaneous injections, recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) would best be adm ...
Characterization of glucose-sen ...
We studied the glucose-responsive insulin controlled release system based on the hydrogel poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate-co- N,N-dimethylaminoethyl ...