Publications by authors named "Kannan B Velu"
Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an emerging public health problem in India. Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an overlooked cardiovascular complication of CKD. This study aimed to estimate the burden of PH among CKD patients undergoing hemodialysis in a selected tertiary care hospital.
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- The study investigates protein-energy wasting in patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing dialysis, finding a prevalence of 56.8% among 146 participants.
- It evaluates various nutritional assessment tools, highlighting that the normalized protein catabolism rate had the highest sensitivity (90.4%) for identifying protein-energy wasting.
- The research suggests that simple, validated nutritional assessments can effectively identify protein-energy wasting in areas lacking advanced diagnostic equipment, promoting better management of affected patients in India.
Membranous nephropathy is an immune disease that commonly presents as nephrotic syndrome. The understanding of the pathogenesis of membranous nephropathy has rapidly evolved over the past few years due to the discovery of newer antigens. Exostosin 1 and exostosin 2 are antigens discovered in 2019 and found to be specific for membranous nephropathy secondary to autoimmune disease and are usually not seen in M-type phospholipase A2-associated membranous nephropathy.
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