Objectives: Nephrology in the last 50 years has undergone important scientific developments, which have formally revolutionized clinical practice, including renal biopsy, renal replacement therapy, and transplantation. The understanding of the pathogenesis and the clinical course of renal disease has also steadily improved, resulting in renewal of definitions, classifications, and therapeutics in nephrology. In this context, publications with nephrological content are also expanding.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The goal of this article was to trace any similarity between the current knowledge on the physiology of the afferent, efferent convoluted tubules, the Loop of Henle, and a passage of Hippocrates' work "Regimen."
Materials And Methods: We compared the function of the renal tubule with the Regimen (1.6) passage on the similarity between the sawing of a tree and the body's function.
World J Nephrol
January 2021
The coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has been a wake-up call in which has forced us to react worldwide. Health policies and practices have attracted particular attention in terms of human and financial cost. Before COVID-19, chronic kidney disease was already considered a risk multiplier in patients with diabetes and hypertension, the two now being the major risk factors for COVID-19 infection and adverse outcome.
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