Nationwide biopsy survey of renal diseases in the Czech Republic during the years 1994-2011.

Background: We describe data on 10,472 renal biopsies gathered by the Czech Registry of Renal Biopsies over a period of 18 years.

Methods: We assessed the main demographic, clinical and histological data of individuals who underwent renal biopsies of native kidneys in 31 centers in the Czech Republic (population 10.3 million) during the period 1994-2011.

[Late effect of treatment of nephroblastoma in patients treated in 1980-2001 in a single centre].

Backgrounds: The aim of the study was to describe the late effects in a cohort of patients in long-term remission (> 5 years from end of treatment) diagnosed and treated for nephroblastoma at the single paediatric centre during 1980- 2001.

Patients And Methods: 151 patients were examined for renal function, lipid profile, sonography, echocardiography, exercise capacity and postural status. Age at diagnosis was 3.

Effects of chronic cytochrome P-450 inhibition on the course of hypertension and end-organ damage in Ren-2 transgenic rats.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of inhibition of cytochrome P-450 (CYP) activity by 1-aminobenzotriazole (ABT) and by CoCl(2), first, on the development of hypertension when treatment was started in young male heterozygous Ren-2 transgenic rats (TGR) and, second, on blood pressure (BP) when treatment was started in adult TGR with established hypertension. Normotensive Hannover Sprague-Dawley (HanSD) rats served as controls. In addition, the renal cortical activities of omega-hydroxylase, the enzyme catalyzing the formation of 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE), and of epoxygenase, the enzyme responsible for epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) production, and urinary excretion of 20-HETE and EETs in TGR and HanSD rats were assessed.

Effects of dietary salt load and salt depletion on the course of hypertension and angiotensin II levels in male and female heterozygous Ren-2 transgenic rats.

Background: In the present study we evaluated plasma and kidney angiotensin II (ANG II) levels in female and male Ren-2 transgenic rats (TGR) in comparison to age-matched female and male normotensive Hannover Sprague-Dawley rats.

Methods: The rats were maintained on a normal sodium (NS) diet (0.6% NaCl) or fed a high sodium (HS) diet (2% NaCl) for 4 days or were sodium depleted by administration of 40 mg furosemide per liter drinking water overnight followed by 3 days of low sodium diet (0.

Mild course of Puumala nephropathy in children in an area with sporadic occurrence Hantavirus infection.

The first three children with Puumala virus nephropathy diagnosis in the Czech Republic are reported on. A boy and two girls were admitted with symptoms of interstitial nephritis. The medical history in all children revealed flu-like symptoms.