Multiple myeloma and light-chain amyloidosis: a rare presentation by carmenza Liliana Sandoval, Bernarda Jinneth Acosta, Oscar Contreras, Jorge Vargas

“…Infiltration in skin and digestive tract was confirmed by histology. The patient presented with concomitant multiple myeloma with lytic bone lesions and myeloma kidney. …”
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Lithium-Induced Chronic Kidney Disease in a Pediatric Patient by Neena Gupta, Meghan Gibson, Ellen C. Wallace

“…There is very limited information available in pediatric patients. Renal function monitoring and timely intervention is the key in preventing lithium-induced chronic kidney disease in these patients. …”
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Diagnostic and Follow-up Characteristics of Cases Presenting with Hyperthyroidism in Childhood by Yasemin Denkboy Öngen, Özlem Kara

“…The most common complaint at presentation was weight loss. All patients had thyromegaly, and half of the patients had exophthalmos. …”
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The Adverse consequence of covid-19 causing liver and kidney dysfunctions by Omar Falah Ibrahim

“…However, damage can occur in other organs, including ‎ liver, cardiac dysfunction, kidney ‎dysfunction, and intestine disorder.‎ This research aims is to evaluate the function of two main organs ‎in the human body, the ‎liver, and ‎kidney, assess the organ's function by measuring the clinical features and test abnormalities ‎in ‎COVID-19 ‎patients, and to compared with previous publications, and highlighted on adverse of ‎pharmacological utilized in ‎the treatment of covid-19 patients.‎ …”
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Primary Hepatic Burkitt Lymphoma in a Kidney Transplant Recipient by Sophia Lionaki, Eystratios Tsakonas, Athina Androulaki, George Liapis, Panagiotis Panayiotidis, George Zavos, John N. Boletis

“…She received a graft from a deceased donor, with rabbit antithymocyte globulin and methyl-prednisolone, as induction therapy, and was maintained on azathioprine, cyclosporine, and low dose methyl-prednisolone with normal renal function. Four years after KTx she presented with fatigue, hepatomegaly, and impaired liver function and the workup revealed multiple, variable-sized, low density nodules in the liver, due to diffuse monotonous infiltration of highly malignant non-Hodgkin lymphoma of B-cells, which turned out to be a Burkitt lymphoma. …”
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A case of long-term tolerance after kidney transplantation by A. A. Korzhenevsky, N. P. Korzhenevskaya

“…We present a case of long-term organ functioning (ca.10 years) after allografting of a cadaveric kidney without usage of immunosuppressing drugs. …”
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Acute Kidney Injury in Children: Classification, Recognition and Treatment Principles by Matjaž Kopač

“…Acute kidney injury (AKI) in children is a critical medical condition characterized by a sudden decline in kidney function. …”
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Metabolic reprogramming in polycystic kidney disease and other renal ciliopathies by Sara Clerici, Alessandra Boletta

“…The kidney is frequently and severely affected in the ciliopathies, presenting with a spectrum of phenotypes. …”
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Mitochondrial dysfunction: the hidden catalyst in chronic kidney disease progression by Jinhu Chen, Qiuyuan Zhou, Lianjiu Su, Lihua Ni

“…The kidney, characterized by its exceptionally high energy demands, exhibits significant sensitivity to alterations in energy supply and mitochondrial function. …”
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Orthotopic kidney transplantation is a possible solution in difficult situations by D. V. Perlin, A. V. Terentyev, T. S. Vasiliev, Ya. N. Dankov

“…Often, patients who need an organ transplantation have peculiar anatomical features that require a non-standard approach to performing this surgery.Objective. To present a clinical case of orthotopic kidney transplantation in a patient with occlusive thrombosis of the external iliac veins.Material and methods. …”
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ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY DUE TO METFORMIN-ASSOCIATED LACTIC ACIDOSIS by Svilena Aleksandrova, Stela Linkova, Yulia Benovska, Biser Borisov

“…Introduction: Acute kidney injury is a clinical syndrome of rapid decline of renal function due to various causes and often occurs by more than one pathophysiological mechanism. …”
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Non-alcoholic Wernicke’s encephalopathy in a kidney transplant recipient by R. O. Kantariya, O. N. Vetchinnikova, A. V. Vatazin, L. A. Sherman

“…Very few cases of this pathology have been described in chronic kidney disease (CKD). We present a unique case of non-alcoholic Wernicke’s encephalopathy in a patient with a kidney transplant is presented.Past medical history. …”
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THE USE OF NORMOTHERMIC EXTRACORPOREAL PERFUSION IN SITU IN KIDNEY ASYSTOLIC DONORS by Y.. A. Shcherbuk, S. F. Bagnenko, A. E. Scvorzov, I. V. Loginov, A. N. Ananyev, I. V. Ulyankina, S. V. Eremich, K. Y. Senchik, O. N. Reznik

“…Obtaining organs from this category of donors is pos- sible only through the use of normothermic extracorporal perfusion in situ (NECP) with oxygenation and leu- cocyte depletion. The article presents the implementation of NECP in 11 uncontrolled non heart beating donor (uNHBD) kidneys (age of 43,1 ± 2,98 years) and the results of transplantation in 22 recipients of such transplants in comparison with the results of the 20 recipients of kidney transplants from 20 donors to the death of the brain (age 45,65 ± 1,8 years). …”
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Kidney involvement in monoclonal gammopathies: multidisciplinary approach in oncohematology and nephrology by A. V. Smirnov, V. A. Dobronravov, M. S. Khrabrova, B. V. Afanasyev

“…Monoclonal protein’s pathological effects on kidney parenchyma result in irreversible decline of kidney function till the end stage renal disease that in line with the position of International Consensus of hematologists and nephrologists determinates critical necessity for clone specific treatment in patients with MGRS despite the absence of hematological indications for treatment initiation. …”
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Prediction of post-contrast acute kidney injury by bedside ultrasonography by Mümin Murat Yazici, Enes Hamdioğlu, Nurullah Parça, Gürkan Altuntaş, Özcan Yavaşi, Özlem Bilir

“…Abstract Background The incidence of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) in the general population ranges from 0.6 to 2.3%, whereas for specific high-risk patients, the incidence can reach more than 30–40%. …”
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Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation From Donors on Renal Replacement Therapy by Naeem Goussous, MD, Karima Alghannam, BS, Peter A. Than, MD, Aileen X. Wang, MD, Ling-Xin Chen, MD, Sophoclis P. Alexopoulos, MD, Junichiro Sageshima, MD, Richard V. Perez, MD

“…We compared the outcomes of recipients receiving a kidney from a donor with AKI versus AKI-RRT. Data are presented as medians (interquartile ranges) and numbers (percentages). …”
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An extracellular vesicle based hypothesis for the genesis of the polycystic kidney diseases by Marie C. Hogan, Christopher J. Ward

“…The resultant PKD-ELVs can have multiple functions in different biological contexts. One of the roles of the resultant PKD-ELVs is to generate a planar cell polarity (PCP) signaling gradient along kidney tubules in developing or regenerating kidney. …”
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Genetic variants associated with sepsis-associated acute kidney injury. by Nicholas J Douville, Lisa Bastarache, Emily Bertucci-Richter, Snehal Patil, Elizabeth S Jewell, Robert E Freundlich, Miklos D Kertai, Milo C Engoren

“…Notably, rs184516290 (chr1:199814965:G:A), near the NR5A2 gene, chr1:199805801:T:TA, also near the NR5A2 gene, and rs117313146 (chr15:31999784:G:C), near the CHRNA7 gene, were associated with S-AKI at the suggestive level in all three models presented. Variants in the suppressor of fused homolog (SUFU) gene, previously shown to be correlated with renal function in bacteremic patients, consistently exceeded the P<0.05 threshold in our models.…”
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Emerging Role of Microtubule-Associated Protein 2 as a Prognostic Factor for Renal Dysfunction by Fatima Ghazi Talab, Hind Shakir Ahmed

“…      Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a severe medical disorder manifested by a decline in kidney function over an extended period. …”
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TREATMENT OF LOCALIZED RENAL CANCER by N. G. Kulchenko

“…The most common approach to early stage RCC treatment consists in either radical or partial nephrectomy. This article presents a clinical case of the successful treatment of a localized renal cell carcinoma T3аN0M0 in a 65-year-old man. 8 weeks after the performed kidney resection, the biochemical blood parameters and glomerular filtration rate did not significantly differ from the initial values (p &gt; 0.05). …”
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