A Growing Public Health Problem in Europe with Potential Severe Renal Involvement.

Dengue is an arboviral infection transmitted by the mosquito of the Aedes genus, widespread especially in tropical and subtropical regions but now with worldwide involvement. Cases of contagion are also progressively increasing in Europe, and the differential diagnosis with other infections is not always easy. Renal involvement with acute renal failure is possible and caused by the direct action of the virus, hemodynamic instability, rhabdomyolysis, or acute glomerular damage.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto's Disease: A Rare and Underdiagnosed Condition with Possible Renal Involvement.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD), or Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis, is a rare disease, with worldwide distribution but is best known in Japan and South Asia. The most common feature is cervical lymphadenopathy, accompanied by tenderness or high fever, with night sweats, but it can also be asymptomatic or with a very wide range of symptoms. The diagnosis is histopathological, on excisional biopsy.

The experience of a European nephrologist at the SIUT: the largest Nephrology-Urology Transplantation Unit in South East Asia.

An Italian nephrologist, during her long experience in the Middle East, is a guest at the SIUT (Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation) in Karachi, the largest centre of nephrology-urology and transplantation in South Asia. She discovers the "SIUT model" which guarantees a constant quality of health care, fighting organ trafficking despite the poor economic conditions of the country, Pakistan.

Anthropometric parameters of nutritional assessment as predictive factors of arteriovenous fistula malfunction in patients undergoing hemodialysis.

Introduction: To evaluate the role of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (W-C) and waist/hip ratio (WHR) on arteriovenous fistula (AVF) dysfunction.

Methods: We evaluated 84 HD patients with an average follow-up period of 31.3 ± 8.