Publications by authors named "G Coppolino"
Vascular calcification (VC) is a biological phenomenon characterized by an accumulation of calcium and phosphate deposits within the walls of blood vessels causing the loss of elasticity of the arterial walls. VC plays a crucial role in the incidence and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD), leading to a significant increase in cardiovascular mortality in these patients. Different conditions such as age, sex, dyslipidemia, diabetes, and hypertension are the main risk factors in patients affected by chronic kidney disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnemia and mineral and bone disorder (MBD) are significant complications of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The erythropoietin (Epo) pathway plays a key role in both of these processes in CKD. Another molecule that plays an important role in CKD-MBD is fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-23, whose main role is to maintain serum phosphate levels in the normal range, acting via its co-receptor Klotho; however, its activity may also be related to anemia and inflammation.
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- Kidney transplantation greatly improves survival and quality of life for children with end-stage kidney disease, but it comes with challenges, especially regarding long-term immunosuppressive therapy.
- Immunosuppressive drugs are crucial to prevent organ rejection but can negatively impact children's growth, puberty, and fertility, which in turn affects their psychological and social well-being.
- There is a lack of focused research on the specific effects of immunosuppression on growth, puberty, and fertility in pediatric transplant patients, leading to a need for better management strategies to address these often-overlooked complications.
Introduction: Uremic patients exhibit remarkably increased rates of mortality and cardiovascular (CV) events, but risk prediction in this setting remains difficult. Systemic mitochondrial dysfunction is pervasive in end-stage kidney disease and may contribute to CV complications. We tested the clinical significance of circulating MOTS-c, a small mitochondrial-derived peptide, as a biomarker for improving mortality and CV risk prediction in hemodialysis (HD) patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Mortality and cardiovascular (CV) risk prediction in individuals with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) on chronic hemodialysis (HD) remains challenging due to the multitude of implicated factors. In a multicenter ESKD-HD cohort, we tested the prognostic yield of the assessment of circulating Humanin, a small mitochondrial-derived peptide involved in CV protection, on CV events and mortality.
Methods: We conducted a prospective, observational, pilot study on 94 prevalent HD patients.