[Acute renal failure and fungus ball: A case report].

Fungus ball is rarely associated with acute renal failure (ARF). We report the case of a 65-year-old diabetic patient who has been admitted for a right kidney infection. Urinary exam showed a leucocyturia with a negative urine culture.

Secondary Amyloidosis, a Fatal Complication of Behcet's Disease: Three Case Reports.

Renal amyloidosis (RA) is known to be one of the many complications of Behcet's disease (BD) but its frequency has been often underestimated. In this paper, we report on three cases of RA in a series of 105 patients with BD. RA was clinically suspected in our patients by the presence of edema and/or hypotension.

Neuropsychiatric manifestations in a patient undergoing hemodialysis caused by treatment with oral acyclovir.

A 50-year-old woman who was being treated with hemodialysis was admitted for severe neuropsychiatric symptoms. She tested positive for antibody to hepatitis C virus. Her medical history revealed ophthalmic herpes zoster four days before her admission for which she was started on oral acyclovir (800 mg three times daily).

One year course of oral sulodexide in the management of diabetic nephropathy.

Background: Diabetic nephropathy is a multifactorial diabetic complication whose long-term consequences involve chronic renal insufficiency and increased rate of cardiovascular death. Besides oxidative stress, and hemodynamic changes, glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are an additional component implicated in the onset of glomerular abnormalities. GAG replacement therapy was envisaged in the nineties for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy and sulodexide is the most extensively investigated GAG to reduce albuminuria in diabetic patients.

[Twin pregnancy after renal transplantation: first case reported in Tunisia].

Women with end-stage renal disease or on regular dialysis have low fertility. Renal transplantation restores not only normal renal and endocrine functions but also the reproductive function as well and this conception becomes possible. Pregnancy in transplanted women is at higher risk and necessitates a multidisciplinary follow up.