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Patients with chronic renal failure under dialysis treatment present high risks of mortality for cardiovascular causes. In order to verify whether also general mortality is increased, a cohort of 120,000 subjects recently enrolled in a dialysis program (average age 63; 61% males) in nine European [...]
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In patients with high cardiovascular risk and in diabetics with absence of albuminuria, the efficacy of sartans in preventing the onset of renal damages is still to be ascertained, so now the results of these drugs in these two particular clinical situations have been examined. With a trial lasted [...]
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As to hospitalized patients, the presence of hyponatremia is associated with a worse prognosis, but there aren’t many data on the association between hyponatremia and prognosis in the general population. Some researchers in Denmark have evaluated plasmatic levels of sodium in 671 subjects averagely [...]
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From previous trials, we know that the decreased function is associated with an increased cardiovascular risk and with a greater probability of death for any cause. But these trials are performed on high-cardiovascular-risk subjects, on subjects with present CV diseases and on subjects with [...]
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In the first approach to acute hypercalcemia, many books of clinical medicine recommend the use of furosemide associated with saline infusions, so a research was performed in order to evaluate this practice with the use of bisphosphonates. 9 reports (the most recent one dating back to 1983) were [...]
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In patients with renal failure, both ACE-inhibitors and sartans decrease proteinuria, but it remains to establish whether their function of renal damage prevention is superimposable, whether the use of both drugs at the same time is more effective than single drugs alone and whether their use [...]
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The presence of preeclampsia is associated with severe death risk for the pregnant woman and her fetus; but we do not know much on the long-term consequences of this situation. With a retrospective cohort trial, based on data from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway and from the [...]
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In a trial performed in 2001, some US researchers had examined 71 patients affected by kidney disease related to obesity, making renal biopsies and finding glomerular dilatation, frequent presence of focal sclerosis and important proteinuria. Now, three further reports confirm the association [...]
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From previous trials, the association between ciprofloxacin and acute renal failure, probably realized through immunological-like mechanisms, was signalled. An Italian trial now presents two cases of possible induction of crystal-induced nephropathy by ciprofloxacin. In both cases, (older) [...]
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We know there is a relation between high levels of homocysteine and cardiovascular diseases, even if folic acid and vitamin B supplementations have not decreased the incidence of these diseases. So the interest is born on the presence of hyperhomocysteinemia in patients people with chronic renal [...]