Acute Kidney Injury in Deceased Organ Donors: Risk Factors And Impacts on Transplantation Outcomes by Katarina Jakubov, MD, Vojtech Petr, MD, Ivan Zahradka, MD, Eva Girmanova, MSc, Petra Hruba, PhD, Roman Keleman, MSc, Ondrej Viklicky, MD, PhD

“…Delayed graft function and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) at 6 mo were evaluated in 369 kidney grafts transplanted from donors with and without D-AKI. …”
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Targeting cellular senescence in kidney diseases and aging: A focus on mesenchymal stem cells and their paracrine factors by Seyyedeh Mina Hejazian, Seyyed Sina Hejazian, Seyyedeh Mina Mostafavi, Seyed Mahdi Hosseiniyan, Soheila Montazersaheb, Mohammadreza Ardalan, Sepideh Zununi Vahed, Abolfazl Barzegari

“…Moreover, by promoting the clearance of senescent cells or modulating their secretory profiles, MSCs could potentially reverse some age-related declines in kidney function. This review article intends to shed light on the present discoveries concerning the role of cellular senescence in kidney aging and diseases. …”
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Anuric Acute Kidney Injury in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: A Rare Complication Case by Angela Kimberly Tjahjadi, Artaria Tjempakasari

“…This report describes a rare case of anuric acute kidney injury related to suspected urate nephropathy in a 23-year-old male with chronic phase of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). …”
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Kidney Autotransplantation for Treatment of Ureteric Obstruction: A Case Report and Brief Review of the Literature by Parth Joshi, Joanne Lin, Tej Sura, Posan S. Limbu, Vatche Melkonian, Bahar Bastani, Chintalapati Varma

“…In this case report, a 47-year-old male, who had undergone a living donor nephrectomy 14 years earlier, presented with episodes of acute kidney injury on chronic kidney disease. …”
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Tuberous Sclerosis Associated with Polycystic Kidney Disease: Effects of Rapamycin after Renal Transplantation by C. Rosado, P. García-Cosmes, P. Fraile, F. Vázquez-Sánchez

“…Immunosuppressor treatment was switched to rapamycin, whereby an improvement in renal function and other signs of tuberous sclerosis and polycystic kidney disease was observed. …”
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Deficiency of lysophosphatidic acid receptor 3 decreases erythropoietin production in hypoxic mouse kidneys by Nan Yin, Xuyuan Li, Di Zhang, Mengxia Qu, Shengqiang Pei, Xi Chen, Xiaotian Zhang, Junjie Zhang

“…As one of the six LPA receptors, LPA receptor 3 (LPAR3) is highly expressed in mouse kidneys, but its physiological function in the kidney has been poorly explored. …”
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Severe Combined Kidney Injury in an Hiv-Infected Patient Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy (Clinical Observation) by O. N. Vetchinnikova, V.  P. Suslov, Ya. A. Afanas’eva, A. M. Fomin

“…Some antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs have nephrotoxic effects. We present a clinical case of severe combined kidney injury — chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney disease (AKD) — in a patient with HIV infection. …”
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Supernumerary kidney incidentally detected on staging CT scan: A rare case report by Yaman M. Alahmad, MD, Mohamed Lameir Hussein, MD, Ahmad N․ Al-Ekeer, MD, Akram Twair, MD

“…A staging CT scan incidentally revealed a right-sided supernumerary kidney measuring 4.5 cm, alongside a larger right kidney (7.3 cm) and a normal left kidney (10.2 cm), with independent arterial supply and normal excretory function. …”
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Effect of kidney disease on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients undergoing coronary angiography by Qiang Li, Shanshan Shi, Xiaozhao Lu, Haozhang Huang, Jingru Deng, Weihua Chen, Wenguang Lai, Guoxiao Liang, Yani Wang, Martin Gallagher, Amanda Y. Wang, Jiyan Chen, Jin Liu, Yong Liu

“…In the present study, 13,989 (28.4%) patients had kidney disease. …”
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Screening of VHL mutation in different types of kidney cancer in patients of West Bengal (India) by Vishal Jalan, Ravi Prakash Yadav, Madhusudan Das, Dilip Kumar Pal

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Fatal progression of squamous cell carcinoma 10 years after cadaveric kidney transplantation by I. N. Dymkov, A. V. Smirnov, A. D. Perlina, K. G. Tailer, I. V. Alexandrov

“…This paper presents a case of malignant skin neoplasms in a patient 10 years after cadaveric kidney transplantation. …”
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Fatal Pneumococcus Sepsis after Treatment of Late Antibody-Mediated Kidney Graft Rejection by Gunilla Einecke, Jan Hinrich Bräsen, Nils Hanke, Hermann Haller, Anke Schwarz

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Periodontal Disease in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients: Implications for Systemic Health and Dental Management by Tayyaba Rafiq, Anjum Younus, Muhammad Mustafa, Suman Saeed Siddiqui, Khurram Anwar, Ravina Kumari, Kanwal Fatima, Aman Ullah Khan

“… Background: Research suggested that the chronic kidney disease (CKD) exists as an inflammatory condition while studies established that periodontal disease interacts with CKD in two directions. …”
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Multi-model deep learning approach for the classification of kidney diseases using medical images by Waleed Obaid, Abir Hussain, Tamer Rabie, Dhafar Hamed Abd, Wathiq Mansoor

“…Chronic kidney disease is marked by a gradual failure in kidney function due to various factors, such as stones, cysts, and tumors. …”
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Renal scintigraphy in infants with antenatally diagnosed renal pelvis dilatation by Ajdinović Boris, Jauković Ljiljana, Peco-Antić Amira, Dugonjić Sanja

“…Renal DMSA scans identified congenital scars in two boys with bilateral reflux of grade V and unilateral reflux of grade III. Relative kidney uptake (RKU) less than 40% was found in three, and poor kidney function (RKU less than 10%) in two patients. …”
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Severe acute kidney injury induced by crescentic glomerulonephritis in a child with infective endocarditis by Neslihan Yılmaz, Selçuk Yüksel, Dolunay Gürses, İlknur Girişgen, Tülay Becerir, Münevver Yılmaz, Furkan Ufuk, Gülsün Gülten

“… Background. Kidney involvement related to infective endocarditis (IE) may present with different clinical findings. …”
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Chronic kidney disease related to Loa loa microfilaremia in a rural area of the Republic of Congo: a population-based cross-sectional study by Charlotte Boullé, Jérémy T. Campillo, Marlhand C. Hemilembolo, Elodie Lebredonchel, Valentin Dupasquier, Jean Claude Djontu, Sébastien D. S. Pion, Laurène Tardieu, Ludovic Rancé, François Missamou, Francine Ntoumi, Michel Boussinesq, Cédric B. Chesnais

“…Renal function was assessed via estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) using Chronic Kidney Disease—Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) and European Kidney Function Consortium (EKFC) equations, and proteinuria and/or haematuria (renal abnormalities, RAb). …”
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Acute kidney disease in patients with COVID-19. A prospective, multicenter, multinational study in Latin America by Raúl Lombardi, Alejandro Ferreiro, Yanissa Venegas, Mariana Pereira, Cristina Carlino, Rolando Claure-Del Granado, Daniela Ponce, Daniel Molina, Agustina Zinoveev

“…Abstract Introduction: Acute kidney disease (AKD) is defined as functional and/or structural abnormalities of kidneys with health implications and a duration of ≤90 days. …”
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Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis of a Lower Pole Moiety in a Duplicated Collecting System Kidney by Jean Paul Wuilleumier, Ariel Schulman, Antonio Montgomery, Ervin Teper

“…Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XGP) is a destructive inflammatory process which is frequently caused by recurrent urinary tract infections or chronic obstruction by kidney stones. We present a 56-year-old female with an extensive retroperitoneal urinoma and xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis of the lower pole moiety in a kidney with a duplicated collecting system due to obstructive nephrolithiasis. …”
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Andrias davidianus bone peptides alleviates hyperuricemia-induced kidney damage in vitro and in vivo by Wei Li, Haihong Chen, Hongliang Chen, Ziyin Li, Wei Hu, Qinxuan Zhou, Bing Xu, Yi Wang, Xinhui Xing

“…Hyperuricemia (HUA) is a vital risk factor for chronic kidney diseases (CKD) and development of functional foods capable of protecting CKD is of importance. …”
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