New method of internal fixation in laparoscopic Tenckhoff catheter placement.

Background: Despite obvious advantages of peritoneal dialysis (PD), mechanical complications are responsible for the failure of PD at early stage. Suture fixation in laparoscopic PD catheter method could reduce mechanical complications. In our study, a simple method to fix PD catheter was developed.

Management of Tamm-Horsfall Protein for Reliable Urinary Analytics.

Purpose: Urinary extracellular vesicles (uEVs) are a novel source of biomarkers. However, urinary Tamm-Horsfall Protein (THP; uromodulin) interferes with all vesicle isolation attempts, precipitates with normal urinary proteins, thus, representing an unwanted "contaminant" in urinary assays. Thus, the aim is to develop a simple method to manage THP efficiently.

Evans Syndrome with Acute Kidney Injury.

Evans syndrome is a rare syndrome associated with the simultaneous or sequential development of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Furthermore, acute kidney injury (AKI) is a syndrome characterized by the rapid loss of kidney excretory function and is most often secondary to extrarenal events. However, AKI has rarely been recorded in Evans syndrome without systemic autoimmune disease and malignant tumors of the blood and lymphatic system.

Baicalein protects renal tubular epithelial cells againsthypoxia-reoxygenation injury.

Background: To investigate the protective effects and mechanism of baicalein (BAI), a naturally occurring flavonoid, against hypoxia-reoxygenation (HR) injury in renal tubular epithelial cells (HK-2).

Methods: Cultured human renal proximal tubular cell line HK-2 was exposed to 24 h of hypoxia (5% CO, 1% O, and 94% N), followed by 12 h of reoxygenation (5% CO, 21% O, and 74% N). HK-2 cells were divided into three groups: control, HR, and HR-BAI (0.

Effectiveness of oral hydration in preventing contrast-induced acute kidney injury in patients undergoing coronary angiography or intervention: a pairwise and network meta-analysis.

Background: The effectiveness of oral hydration in preventing contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) in patients undergoing coronary angiography or intervention has not been well established. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of oral hydration compared with intravenous hydration and other frequently used hydration strategies.

Methods: PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and the Cochrane central register of controlled trials were searched from inception to 8 October 2017.

RCLens: Interactive Rare Category Exploration and Identification.

Rare category identification is an important task in many application domains, ranging from network security, to financial fraud detection, to personalized medicine. These are all applications which require the discovery and characterization of sets of rare but structurally-similar data entities which are obscured within a larger but structurally different dataset. This paper introduces RCLens, a visual analytics system designed to support user-guided rare category exploration and identification.

[Value of serum IgA/C3 ratio in the diagnosis of IgA nephropathy and its correlation with the clinicopathological features].

Objective: To investigate the value of serum IgA/C3 ratio in the diagnosis of IgA nephropathy and explore its relationship with the clinicopathological features of the patients.

Methods: Sixty-six patients with IgA nephropathy, 111 with other glomerular diseases, and 40 healthy control subjects without kidney disease were tested for serum IgA and C3 levels using CRM470 adjusted standardized immune turbidimetric method, and the IgA/C3 ratio was calculated. According to Oxford and Lee's classification criteria, we analyzed the pathological grades of the renal biopsy samples from patients with IgA nephropathy.

[Quantification and size distribution of 24-hour urinary extracellular vesicles from healthy adults].

Objective: To analyze the quantity and size distribution of 24-hour urinary extracellular vesicles (uEVs) from healthy adults.

Methods: The 24-hour uEVs from 9 healthy adults were isolated by hydrostatic filtration dialysis (HFD). The effectiveness of uEVs enrichment was evaluated using Western blotting and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

[The clinical and CT two-phase imaging features of bronchial-pulmonary arterial fistula].

Objective: To study the clinical features of bronchial-pulmonary arterial fistula, and to analyze its imaging features.

Methods: In continuous five months, 502 patients for pulmonary angiography were analyzed by pulmonary/aortic arterial two-phase scanning. The 128-slice MSCT (Siemens Definition AS 128) was used with the following parameters: the speed of 0.