Background: It is established that proteinuria is associated with kidney dysfunction. The endeavor in this study was to observe whether the degree of dipstick proteinuria was related to the progressive stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) for Bangladeshi patients. Methods: This...
Nizam Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury, Md. Nizamuddin Chowdhury, Md. Nazrul Islam, Sharif Qamar Uddin, Jubaida Khanam Chowdhury, Mohammad Zahir Uddin, Maksuda Begum Mony & Kowser Hossain Chowdhury·Asian Journal of Research in Nephrology·2021
Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is defined as a sudden and rapid decline in renal excretory function within hours to days, accompanied by an accumulation of nitrogenous waste products such as creatinine, urea, and other clinically unmeasured products. Historically acute kid...
Khurram Khaliq Bhinder, Nishwa Azeem, Azza Sarfraz, Sameer Saleem Tebha, Humaira Bashir, Zenab Farooq & Zouina Sarfraz·Asian Journal of Research in Nephrology·2021
We describe the case of a 31-year-old-male who presented with an acute flare of SLE, gross hematuria, left lumbar pain, fever, and burning micturition. He had a history of systemic lupus erythematosus, hypertension, myocardial infarction, and weight loss. Radiological examination...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is becoming more widely accepted as a public health issue around the world. However, there is a scarcity of data from low- and middle-income countries on the prevalence, challenges, and management of CKD. People in developed countries are expected to...
Background: Renal involvement in Covid 19 disease is an independent predictor of mortality in Covid 19 patients. Hyperinflammation and hypercoagulability are the important key factors for assessing severity of Covid 19 disease. Management of Covid 19 infection in preexisting CKD...
Background: Mineral bone disease in chronic kidney disease patients is associated with high morbidity and mortality, and it has been reported to start early in the course of the disease and worsen as the kidney damage progresses. However, the prevalence and factors associated wit...
Tenofovir is an antiretroviral drug used in combination with other antiretroviral agents. It is an effective therapy for HIV infection. Kidney injury induced by this drug has been known to occur in the HIV positive patients. When given in titrated doses, it is safe and should be...
This study investigated the histomorphological effect of mercury chloride on the kidney. Heavy metals are hazardous substances that cause serious health risk to ecosystems and organisms due to their high toxicity conferred by nature of their environmental persistence. Mercury is...
The importance of hyperglycaemia without glycosuria, seems to have been under played, as evidenced by the paucity of reports about the same, in the literature. Ralph H. Major et al. [1] observed in JAMA, on review of literature till then, that there was no reported case as such,...
Background: Phosphorus is an essential nutrient required for multiple physiological functions, recent researches found that high phosphorus intake could have detrimental effects on health. Hyperphosphatemia is one of the most important risk factors for morbidity and mortality for...