Naadyatou Bèga Sinon, Yéremadè Juste Bonzi, Aïda Sandrine Ouédraogo, Alassane Dianda, Patrice Zoehinga, Gérard Coulibaly & Pascal Antoine Niamba·Asian Journal of Research in Nephrology·2024
Pulmonary lesions remain a significant public health problem. Extrapulmonary lesions can occur. Cutaneous localization is uncommon and favored by immunosuppression, such as chronic hemodialysis. Chronic non-healing wounds of immunocompromised patients are very often neglected. In...
Dianda Alassane, Sanou Gaoussou, Bonzi Yérémadé. Juste, Kadio Sati Ahmed, Pankolo Macaire, Kawané Kevin Ulrich, Kienou Abdias, Ouedraogo Gafourou Arsène, Traoré Abdoul Hassane Sanlé & Coulibaly Gérard·Asian Journal of Research in Nephrology·2024
Glomerulonephritis is one of the renal damages of secondary syphilis. We report the case of a 23-year-old man, a student with progressive bilateral glaucoma, who consulted nephrology for the oedema to-ascitic syndrome. Clinical and laboratory examination revealed painless general...
Background: IgA nephropathy is the most common primary glomerulonephritis, while the most common cause of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) is pauci immune crescentic glomerulonephritis (GN), followed by Immune complex mediated GN and anti Glomerular basement membrane...
Aim: To investigate the clinical practice patterns among renal professionals regarding hepatitis B vaccination in chronic kidney disease and to identify potential barriers affecting early initiation. Background: Optimal hepatitis B vaccination requires a rigorous 6-month schedule...
Harunor Rashid Chowdhury, Pradip Kumar Dutta, Nurul Huda, Rosanna Bintey Kamal, Marina Arjumand, Mohammad Abdul Kader & Tarim Mahmood·Asian Journal of Research in Nephrology·2024
Introduction: In chronic kidney disease patients, the leading cause of mortality is cardiovascular disease. In most cases, it is related to vascular calcification. Among multiple risk factors for vascular calcification, decline of residual renal function is an important one. So f...
Mohammad Omar Faruque Miah, Choman Abdullah Mohana, Hasanul Islam, Abu Zafor Md. Salahuddin, Tasnim Mahmud & Tarim Mahmood·Asian Journal of Research in Nephrology·2024
Background: Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) regardless of diabetes status are at increased risk of hypoglycemia due to dysregulation of the physiological processes maintaining normal glucose metabolism with a resultant array of adverse clinical outcomes endangering t...
Background: Kidney transplantation, especially from a living donor, is a preferred treatment for many with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Unilateral nephrectomy reduces total glomerular filtration rate (GFR), impacting kidney function, arterial hypertension, proteinuria, and other...
Corticosteroids are the class of medications that are widely used to treat a variety of inflammatory conditions. However, they can also a number of side effects, including rashes. Corticosteroids induces rashes can range in severity from mild to severe can occur on any part of th...
Ghattas Mohamed Amine, Kharrat Assia, Medkouri Ghislaine, Naoufal Mtioui, Selma Elkhayat, Mohamed Ali Zamd & Mohamed Benghanem Gharbi·Asian Journal of Research in Nephrology·2024
The prevalence of hypertension in kidney transplant patients is significant. The physiological circadian evolution of blood pressure (BP) shows a nocturnal decrease of 10 to 20%, called dipping rate. According to this dipping rate, several profiles have been determined, some of w...
Background: Human polyoma viruses are the members of the papova virus family. The most known species of this kind are BK-virus (BKV), JC-virus (JCV) and Simian-virus (SV-40). BK (polyma) virus causes allograft dysfunction in renal transplant recipients. The incidence of BK virus...