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  1. Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most prevalent hereditary kidney disease, characterized by enlarged kidneys with numerous cysts, high blood pressure, and a variety of extrarenal com...

    Authors: Sylvain Bodard, Rim Nabbout, Olivier Hélénon and Bertrand Knebelmann
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:325
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Nephrology 2024 25:448

  2. Multiple myeloma (MM) often causes renal tubular damage, such as the light chain cast nephropathy (LCCN) and the light chain proximal tubulopathy (LCPT). The excessive light chains deposited in the proximal an...

    Authors: Mingfu Lan, Yaohui Guo, Caiyun Wang, Xiaoqin Wang, Jing Li and Yanxia Wang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:324
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  3. Kidney transplantation is the definitive treatment option for chronic kidney failure, offering improved quality of life and extended survival. Access to kidney transplantation is limited in the Sub-Saharan Africa...

    Authors: Jacqueline Shoo, Daniel Msilanga, Jonathan Mngumi, Gudila Valentine, Pilly Kidunda, Mahmoud Nyello, Deus Buma and Francis Furia
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:323
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  4. Different initial manifestations of peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis (PDAP) may depend on the type of pathogenic organism. We investigated the association between the clinical characteristics of PDAP...

    Authors: Dong-dong Ren, Yue-Juan Pan, Jian-dong Nie, Xiaoxiao Wang and Wen Tang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:322
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  5. People living with HIV (PLWH) are at risk of kidney function impairment due to HIV-related inflammation, antiretroviral therapy (ART), diabetes mellitus, and hypertension. Older persons may experience a higher...

    Authors: Amutuhaire Judith Ssemasaazi, Robert Kalyesubula, Yukari C. Manabe, Phoebe Mbabazi, Susan Naikooba, Faizo Ssekindi, Esther Nasuuna, Pauline Byakika-Kibwika and Barbara Castelnuovo
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:321
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  7. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the most common complications of diabetes mellitus (DM). Diabetes mellitus contributes to about 66% of CKD cases globally. CKD results in increased morbidity and mortalit...

    Authors: Moses Kirya, Denis Bwayo, Michael E. Otim, Paul Bukhota Mutoo, John Peter Masete Masaba, Okibure Ambrose and Richard Katuramu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:319
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  8. Patients suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD) are particularly placed at risk of multiorgan complications. One of them is malnutrition, which adds up to a higher mortality factor among them. This study ...

    Authors: Aleksandra Gliwińska, Marta Badeńska, Marta Dworak, Elżbieta Świętochowska, Andrzej Badeński, Omar Bjanid, Elżbieta Trembecka-Dubel, Aurelia Morawiec-Knysak and Maria Szczepańska
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:318
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  9. The nephrotoxic effects of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are widely acknowledged. In particular, diclofenac is the most commonly prescribed NSAIDs, but no previous findings of electrolyte dist...

    Authors: Oriana De Marco, Pasquale Buonanno, Eleonora Riccio, Antonio Pisani and Ivana Capuano
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:317
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  10. Sparsentan has shown positive effects on managing different subtypes of glomerulonephritis. The recent results of trials require a pooled analysis to validate these results.

    Authors: Ahmed A. Abo Elnaga, Mohamed A. Alsaied, Abdelrahman M. Elettreby, Alaa Ramadan, Mohamed Abouzid, Raghda Shetta and Yazan A. Al-Ajlouni
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:316
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  11. Familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HypoPP) is an uncommon genetic disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of muscle weakness and hypokalemia, typically starting in early adulthood. The existence of ...

    Authors: Zein Alabdin Hannouneh, C. Elena Cervantes, C. John Sperati and Mohamad Hanouneh
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:315
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  12. We are writing to you in response to the article published in BMC Nephrology titled “Dose of nafamostat mesylate during continuous kidney replacement therapy in critically ill patients: a two-centre observatio...

    Authors: Yiqi Qian, Wei Wu, Minmin Wang, Yifan Wei and Ming Zhong
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:314
    Content type: Matters Arising Published on:

  13. The utilization of ultrapure dialysate has been shown to decrease dialysate contamination and mitigate inflammatory responses. The central dialysate delivery system (CDDS) has the potential to attain a level o...

    Authors: Yanhong Ni, Wenhui Wu, Hua Zhou, Min Li, Xiying Zhu, Hongyan Niu, Jinfeng Liu, Lina Xue, Yeqian Liu and Min Yang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:313
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  14. Monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease (MIDD) is characterized by the deposition of nonamyloid monoclonal immunoglobulin and its free fragment light chain and/or heavy chain in systemic tissues and organ...

    Authors: Xiaoqing Cai, Wenli Zou, Huaihuai Chen, Chaonian Xing and Xuguang Yu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:312
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  16. Behcet’s disease (BD) is an inflammatory disorder of unknown cause that is characterized by recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, uveitis, and skin lesions. Local vasculitis can cause damage to the v...

    Authors: Ying Liao, Qin Hong, Ya Wang, Feng Su, Changyu Gan and Jianjun Hu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:310
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  19. Although the patient survival rate for many malignancies has been improved with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), some patients experience various immune-related adverse events (irAEs). IrAEs impact several...

    Authors: Shusu Liu, Peiyu Lu, Bixia Yang, Yan Yang, Hua Zhou and Min Yang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:307
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  20. Frailty and its components are proposed to associate with kidney function, but little attention is paid to the significance of changes in their status on rapid loss of kidney function. This study aimed to inve...

    Authors: Ying Deng, JiaHui Lai, LeiLe Tang, ShaoMin Li, XingHua Guo, JianHao Kang and Xun Liu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:306
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  21. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with higher incidence of major surgery. No studies have evaluated the association between preoperative kidney function and postoperative outcomes across a wide spectr...

    Authors: Carlos Riveros, Sanjana Ranganathan, Yash B. Shah, Emily Huang, Jiaqiong Xu, Enshuo Hsu, Michael Geng, Siqi Hu, Zachary Melchiode, Brian J. Miles, Nestor Esnaola, Zachary Klaassen, Angela Jerath, Christopher J.D. Wallis and Raj Satkunasivam
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:305
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  22. Understanding the patient perspective of frailty is critical to offering holistic patient-centred care. Rehabilitation strategies for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) and frailty are limited...

    Authors: Alice L Kennard, Suzanne Rainsford, Kelly L Hamilton, Nicholas J Glasgow, Kate L Pumpa, Angela M Douglas and Girish S Talaulikar
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:304
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  23. Bromadiolone is a wide-use long-acting anticoagulant rodenticide known to cause severe coagulation dysfunction. At present, there have been no detailed reports of acute kidney injury (AKI) resulting from broma...

    Authors: Han Wang, Lingling Deng, Bin Sun, Changying Xing, Huijuan Mao and Buyun Wu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:303
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  24. National guidance recognises the key role of rehabilitation in improving outcomes for people living with chronic kidney disease. Implementation of this guidance is reliant upon an adequate and skilled rehabili...

    Authors: Lisa Ancliffe, Ellen M. Castle, Thomas J. Wilkinson and Hannah M. L. Young
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:302
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  25. Low albumin level is a risk factor for thromboembolic events in patients with NS (nephrotic syndrome). However, little is known about the proportion and characteristics of patients with NS who experience throm...

    Authors: Yi-meng Liu, Shuang Gao and Li-jun Liu
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:301
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  26. Kidney replacement therapy (KRT) needs preparation and its timing is difficult to predict. Nephrologists’ predictions of kidney failure risk tend to be more pessimistic than the Kidney Failure Risk Equation (K...

    Authors: Lauren E. Haggerty, Dena E. Rifkin, Hoang Anh Nguyen, Joseph A. Abdelmalek, Natalie Sweiss, Lindsay M. Miller and O. Alison Potok
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:300
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  27. Clinically-oriented outcome measures are increasingly being recognized as lacking in consideration of factors important to patients. There is an emerging move of guideline bodies advocating a more patient-cent...

    Authors: A. Z. Khawaja, J. Ellis, J. Hodson, N. G. Inston and Melanie Field
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:299
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  28. Lipid droplets (LD) in renal clear cell carcinoma (ccRCC)play a crucial role in lipid metabolism and immune response modulation. The purpose of this study was to create a LD-related signature to predict progno...

    Authors: Yangtao Jia, Xinke Dong, Fangzheng Yang, Libin Zhou and Huimin Long
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:298
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  29. Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a common complication of diabetes mellitus, and Prolyl 4-Hydroxylase Subunit Beta (P4HB) expression is increased in high glucose (HG)-induced renal tubular epithelial cells (TECs)....

    Authors: Haifeng Wang, Yang Li, Na Wu, Chunmei Lv and Yishu Wang
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:297
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  30. There is a scarcity of research comparing the efficacy of cyclophosphamide and mycophenolate mofetil in childhood nephrotic syndrome. The aim was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of oral cyclophosphamide (C...

    Authors: Gurdeep Singh Dhooria, Siddharth Bhargava, Deepak Bhat, Puneet Aulakh Pooni, Nancy Goel and Shruti Kakkar
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:296
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  31. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant clinical challenge in Sri Lanka. The present study presents histopathological diagnoses from native renal biopsies in Kandy District, 2011–2020.

    Authors: Jennifer Pett, Christine Linhart, Nicholas Osborne, Stephen Morrell, Mohammed Fahim, John Knight, Shakila Premaranthne, A. W. M. Wazil, Neelakanthi Ratnatunga, Sulcochana Wijethunga, Shenal Thalgahagoda, Zoltan Endre, Richard Taylor and Nishantha Nanayakkara
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:295
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Nephrology 2024 25:384

  32. Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), a cardiovascular risk factor, increases in renal failure. The aim of this study was to investigate ADMA levels in normal weight and obese patients on hemodialysis.

    Authors: Elham Alipoor, Shiva Salehi, Sahar Dehghani, Mehdi Yaseri and Mohammad Javad Hosseinzadeh-Attar
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:294
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  33. Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a histologic pattern of injury in the glomerulus, is one of the leading glomerular causes of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) worldwide. Despite extensive research, the...

    Authors: Amir Roointan, Maryam Ghaeidamini, Parvin Yavari, Azar Naimi, Yousof Gheisari and Alieh Gholaminejad
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:293
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  34. The challenges of long-term graft survival and the side effects of current immunosuppressive therapies in kidney transplantation highlight the need for improved drugs with fewer adverse effects. Biomarkers pla...

    Authors: Sahar Janfeshan, Afsoon Afshari, Ramin Yaghobi and Jamshid Roozbeh
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:292
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  36. Peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis is a serious complication of peritoneal dialysis, and the prevention and treatment of this condition are important for improving the long-term survival and quality of...

    Authors: Rui-feng Xu, Wu-niri Gao, Ta-la Hu, Xi-feng Wang, Jian-rong Zhao and Yan Meng
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:290
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  37. The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between podocyte related biomarker cofilin-1 and renal function, and explore the value of cofilin-1 in predicting the risk of renal adverse prognosi...

    Authors: Ruo-Bei Zhao, Yuan-Shan Xu, Xiao-Hua Li, Mei-Ju Wei, Yang Deng, Xun Peng and Ling Pan
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:289
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  38. Chronic kidney disease patients, especially those on hemodialysis, are at increased risk of developing hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Guidelines suggest that all patients with chronic kidney disease patien...

    Authors: Rodas Temesgen Annose, Abdulsemed Mohammed Nur, Abel Zemenfes Tsige, Leja Hamza Juhar and Arsema Goytom Zegergsh
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:288
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  40. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important public health problem worldwide; therefore, forecasting CKD mortality rates and death numbers globally is vital for planning CKD prevention programs. This study aim...

    Authors: Fatemeh Shahbazi, Amin Doosti-Irani, Alireza Soltanian and Jalal Poorolajal
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:286
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  42. Sunitinib, a multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is used as a second-line therapy for gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) resistant to imatinib. However, its impact on the vascular endothelial growth ...

    Authors: Xin Zhang, Hui Wang, Jian Li, Fude Zhou, Minghui Zhao and Tao Su
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:284
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  43. Both cognitive impairment and malnutrition are common in hemodialysis (HD) patients and are associated with increased hospitalization rates, infection, poor clinical outcomes, and mortality. The study investig...

    Authors: Taksaporn Lertritdecha, Pichaya Tantiyavarong and Aphichat Chatkrailert
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:283
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  44. This article provides a comprehensive overview of electrolyte and water homeostasis in pediatric patients, focusing on some of the common serum electrolyte abnormalities encountered in clinical practice. Under...

    Authors: Jakub Zieg, Shaarav Ghose and Rupesh Raina
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:282
    Content type: Review Published on:

  45. Retroperitoneal liposarcoma (RPLPS) is a relatively rare disease. Liposarcomas vary in size, but sizeable RPLPS larger than 30 cm in diameter are very rare, and their diagnosis and treatment present significan...

    Authors: Jia-Ning Sun, Rui Yang, Xiao-Lu Jiang, Feng Zhang and Hong-Wei Zhao
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:281
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  46. A significant number of patients require non-tunneled haemodialysis catheters (NTHCs) in the event of an urgent need for immediate haemodialysis in developing countries. Catheter-related bloodstream infections...

    Authors: Chanaka Muthukuda, Vindika Suriyakumara, Thilina Samarathunga, Lakshika Liyanage and Arjuna Marasinghe
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:280
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  47. Chronic kidney disease is a progressive disease that affects more than 10% of the world's population and is also the leading cause of death in the twenty-first century. Furthermore, it imposes a significant fi...

    Authors: Azeb Haile Tesfaye, Adamu Birhanu, Tufa Kolola, Leja Hamza and Diriba Etana
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:279
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  49. Exposure to extreme heat impacts millions of people worldwide and outdoor workers are among the populations most affected by hot temperatures. Heat stress induces several biological responses in humans, includ...

    Authors: Jaime Butler-Dawson, Richard J. Johnson, Lyndsay Krisher, Diana Jaramillo, Alex Cruz, Daniel Pilloni, Stephen Brindley, Bernardo Rodriguez-Iturbe, Laura Gabriela Sanchez-Lozada, Miranda Dally and Lee S. Newman
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:277
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  50. Current research in nephrology is increasingly focused on elucidating the complexity inherent in tightly interwoven molecular systems and their correlation with pathology and related therapeutics, including di...

    Authors: Miguel Hueso and Alfredo Vellido
    Citation: BMC Nephrology 2024 25:276
    Content type: Editorial Published on:
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