Bismuth intoxication resulting in acute kidney injury in a pregnant adolescent girl by Aslı Çelebi-Tayfur, Raziye Merve Yaradılmış, Fatma Ulus, Aysun Çaltık-Yılmaz, Esra Özayar, Berrin Koşar, Bahar Büyükkaragöz, Eyüp Horasanlı

“…At the last visit, the baby was 6 months old with normal growth and development as well as normal kidney functions. Neither deterioration in renal functions nor emergence of proteinuria was recorded in the patient during follow-up care after hospital discharge. …”
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Stanniocalcin-1: A Novel Mediator in Diabetic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease by Souradip Mookerjee, Guy Whitley, Debasish Banerjee

“…Unlike fish, STC-1 is not normally present in the blood of healthy humans. However, it can be detected in certain conditions such as pregnancy, cancer, and CKD.In humans, STC-1 has diverse roles, including modulation of calcium and phosphate homeostasis, and it is implicated in kidney and cardiovascular protection. …”
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Advances in oxidative stress in pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease and efficacy of TCM intervention by Xiaoju Ma, Jingru Ma, Tian Leng, Zhongzhu Yuan, Tingting Hu, Qiuyan Liu, Tao Shen

“…In this way, pathways such as PI3K/Akt, TGF-β1/p38-MAPK and NF-κB are activated, inducing endothelial cell apoptosis, inflammation, autophagy and fibrosis that cause histologic and functional abnormalities of the kidney and finally result in kidney injury. …”
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A Prospective Study for the Assessment of Frailty in Elderly Chronic Kidney Disease Patients by Narinder Pal Singh, Mohd Qasim Khan, Pankaj Nand Choudhary, Anish Kumar Gupta, Shaurya Kaul

“…There is a paucity of information on frailty among the Indian elderly population and especially among the elderly chronic kidney disease (CKD) population. Hence, the aim of the present study was to find out the occurrence of frailty in elderly patients with CKD. …”
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Development and validation of a predictive model for acute kidney injury in patients with ureterolithiasis by Yufeng Jiang, Jingcheng Zhang, Ailiyaer Ainiwaer, Yuchao Liu, Jing Li, Liuliu Zhou, Yang Yan, Haimin Zhang

“…Independent risk factors identified included age, fever, diabetes, hyperuricemia, bilateral calculi, functional solitary kidney, self-medication, and prehospital delay. …”
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Immunophenotype and metabolism are linked in peripheral blood neutrophils from patients with kidney cancer by A. A. Savchenko, A. G. Borisov, I. V. Kudryavtsev, I. I. Gvozdev, A. V. Moshev

“…The aim of the present study was to analyze the relationships between expression of activation and adhesion receptors on peripheral blood neutrophils, and intracellular activity of some neutrophil enzymes in patients with kidney cancer (KC). …”
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Renal Replacement Lipomatosis Presenting in the Setting of Ureteral Stricture with Absence of Renal Calculus Disease by Katrina Collins, Eric Brocken, Laura M. Warmke, Temel Tirkes, Michael Hwang

“…She presented for kidney transplant with right native nephrectomy. …”
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Presentation and Management of Acute Mania in Fanconi–Bickel Syndrome, A Metabolic Genetic Disorder by Allen P. F. Chen, Geoffrey Russell, Amnie Ashour, Adeeb Yacoub

“…We conceptualize the case as a novel psychiatric presentation of acute mania in FBS, which may inform our understanding of bipolar disorder pathophysiology because of the hypothesized functional changes in neural pathways involving the paraventricular thalamus induced by decreased GLUT2 activity in FBS.…”
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Atheroembolic Kidney Disease and Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: Two Sides of the Same Coin? by Antonio Pisani, Pasquale Buonanno, Maria Amicone, Eleonora Riccio, Ivana Capuano

“…After 4 months from the intervention, his renal function worsened, he developed hypereosinophilia and skin lesions; the renal ultrasound showed increased resistance indexes, strongly suggestive of atheroembolic kidney disease. …”
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Recurrent Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis Secondary to Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Remission of Kidney Disease with Ibrutinib by Rafeea Shah, Bindu Vydianath, Guy Pratt, Jennifer Pinney

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Case Report of Acute Kidney Injury in Organophosphorus Poisoning and Potential Association with Oxime Use by Nourhan Saeed, Rania Youssef, Maram Mostafa

“…Standard management includes atropine and oximes such as Toxogonin; however, emerging evidence suggests potential adverse effects associated with oximes. Case presentation: This case report examines the uncommon occurrence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in a 64-year-old Egyptian farmer following accidental dermal and inhalational exposure to OP pesticides. …”
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A rare case of adult ovarian inguinal hernia with an associated pelvic ectopic kidney by Komal Mishra, Pratapsingh Parihar, Rakshanda Agrawal

“…This report details the case of a 40-year-old female presenting with a left-sided ovarian hernia, highlighting the clinical presentation, imaging findings, surgical management, and postoperative outcomes. …”
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Superselective embolization of the segmental artery of a ruptured horseshoe kidney: a case report by Žarko Dimitrić, Andrej Petreš, Saša Vojinov, Dimitrije Jeremić, Tanja Lakić, Srđan Govedarica

“…Renal trauma is present in nearly 1–5% of all injuries, with the kidney being the most frequently affected urinary system organ, while blunt force injury accounts for 19% of kidney injuries in people with preexisting renal diseases. …”
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Clinical and histopathological features of lupus nephritis and the risk of long-term kidney outcomes in Indonesia by Ni Made Hustrini, Ni Made Hustrini, Endang Susalit, Monik Ediana Miranda, Meilania Saraswati, Y. K. Onno Teng, Merel van Diepen, Joris I. Rotmans

“…A linear mixed-model analysis was performed to assess the association between lupus nephritis class and kidney function decline.ResultsThis study included 268 patients, with a mean age of 28.7 + 8.5 years, and 94.8% were female. …”
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Mending the Valve, Burdening the Kidney: A Case of Renal Hemosiderosis With Mitral Valve Repair by Sadikshya Bhandari, Tenzin Tamdin, Raymond Raut

“…Due to persisting anemia and worsening kidney function, the patient is being planned for a mitral valve replacement. …”
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An Unusual Case of Essential Thrombocythemia and Acute Kidney Injury: Case Report and Literature Review by Celia Rodríguez Tudero, Alberto Martín Arribas, Patricia Antúnez Plaza, José C. De La Flor, Alexandra Lizarazo Suárez, María Pilar Fraile Gómez

“…Although its impact on renal function is not well established, a few case reports have described glomerular involvement and associated kidney impairment. …”
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Successful Use of Kidneys from a Deceased Donor with Active Herpes Zoster Infection by Amanda J. Vinson, Prakash Chauhan, Christopher Daley, Himanthi De Silva, Karthik K. Tennankore, Paul Bonnar, Kenneth A. West

“…At 4 months posttransplant, both kidney recipients experienced no infectious complications and were off dialysis with functioning transplant grafts. …”
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Successful Reversal of Acute Kidney Failure by Ultrasound-Accelerated Thrombolysis of an Occluded Renal Artery by Renske Konings, Rutger J. Lely, Shaikh A. Nurmohamed, Arjan W. J. Hoksbergen

“…A 76-year-old patient with a single functional kidney, mild chronic renal impairment, and a recent history of endovascular repair of a thoracoabdominal aneurysm with an aortic branch graft presented with acute flank pain, anuria, and renal failure. …”
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Importance of IFT140 in Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease Without a Family History by Takuya Fujimaru, Takayasu Mori, Akinari Sekine, Motoko Chiga, Shintaro Mandai, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Yutaro Mori, Yu Hara, Tamami Fujiki, Fumiaki Ando, Koichiro Susa, Soichiro Iimori, Shotaro Naito, Ryoichi Hanazawa, Akihiro Hirakawa, Toshio Mochizuki, Tatsuya Suwabe, Yoshifumi Ubara, Shinichi Uchida, Eisei Sohara

“…We sequenced up to 92 genes associated with inherited cystic kidney disease, including IFT140. Results: Of the 157 patients, 7 (4.5%) presented with monoallelic loss-of-function variants in the IFT140 gene, 51 (32.5%) with pathogenic variants in the PKD1 or PKD2 gene, and 7 (4.5%) with pathogenic variants in other genes related to inherited kidney cystic disease. …”
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Targeting the Type I Interferon Pathway in Glomerular Kidney Disease: Rationale and Therapeutic Opportunities by James Tumlin, Brad Rovin, Hans-Joachim Anders, Eduardo F. Mysler, David R.W. Jayne, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Catharina Lindholm, Gudrun Weiss, Alessandro Sorrentino, Kevin Woollard, Nicola Ferrari

“…Thus, therapeutic strategies targeting type I IFN could provide clinical benefits to patients with immune dysregulation who are at risk of developing impaired kidney function. Here, we present a critical review of type I IFN signaling, the consequences of chronically elevated type I IFN expression, and therapeutic strategies targeting type I IFN signaling in the context of kidney disease.…”
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