The effect of calcineurin inhibitors on anthropometric measurements in kidney transplant recipients.

Background: This study was designed to investigate the effect of calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs), cyclosporine (CsA), and tacrolimus (Tac) on anthropometrics in kidney transplant recipients.

Methods: 111 of 128 adult kidney transplant recipients who received post-transplant CNIs were included in this retrospective study. Anthropometrics were recorded in the pre-transplant and post-transplant 4-year follow-up periods (1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 and 48 months).

Serum Prealbumin: a potential predictor of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in patients receiving programmed hemodialysis.

Objective: Prealbumin has been a reliable marker to predict protein energy malnutrition and hypercatabolic state. In this analysis, we particularly aimed to investigate the potential association between serum prealbumin levels and right ventricular dysfunction in patients receiving programmed hemodialysis.

Methods: A total of 57 subjects were included in the analysis.

Membranous Nephropathy with Lambda Light Chain Restriction: A Rare Form with Serum Negative and Tissue Positive PLA2R Ab.

Membranous nephropathy (MN) is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults. Subepithelial polyclonal immunoglobulin deposits and >70% M-type phospholipase A2 receptor antibody positivity are typical findings in idiopathic MN. A 58-year-old female patient was admitted with clinical presentation of nephrotic syndrome.

Factors Influencing Lymphocele Development After Kidney Transplant: Single Center Experience.

Objectives: Lymphocele is a well-known postoperative surgical complication after kidney transplant. In this study, our aim was to analyze incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of posttransplant lymphocele in a large cohort.

Materials And Methods: This observational study included 395 consecutive patients (219 males and 176 females) who underwent kidney transplant procedures from 183 living and 212 deceased donors in our center between January 2007 and 2014.

Serum fetuin-A is associated with the components of MIAC(malnutrition, inflammation, atherosclerosis, calcification) syndrome in different stages of chronic kidney disease.

Background/aim: Fetuin-A, a circulating inhibitor of calcification, is a marker of inflammatory-nutritional state. We evaluated the association between serum fetuin-A levels and vascular calcification, intima-media thickness, and nutritional and inflammatory markers in different stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Materials And Methods: CKD patients were sampled for calcium-phosphate parameters and nutritional and inflammatory markers [highly sensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP)], and serum fetuin-A levels.

Prevalence of Fabry disease among Turkish dialysis patients: Data from hemodialysis centers in Bursa province.

Background: Detection of potential Fabry disease patients before appearance of life-threatening findings is of great importance, particularly in high-risk populations. This study was designed to determine prevalence of Fabry disease among Turkish patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis for chronic renal failure (CRF).

Methods: A total of 1,527 patients (mean (SD) age: 60.

Relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and metabolic syndrome.

Background/aims: To investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and its components in patients with Helicobacter pylori that was detected using histopathological diagnostic methods.

Materials And Methods: The study included 200 patients who presented with dyspeptic complaints and had indication for endoscopy. H.