Triage and urgent dental care for COVID-19 patients in the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa.

Objective: This paper describes and reports the patient-specific characteristics of an urgent dental care clinic for COVID-19 infected, suspected, exposed or quarantined patients from March to December 2020 in the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, Finland.

Material And Methods: The triage and the treatment protocol were established based on the scientific data. Patient files were evaluated from the hospital district's electronic medical record system.

Salivary Biomarkers of Oral Inflammation Are Associated With Cardiovascular Events and Death Among Kidney Transplant Patients.

Background: Triggering receptors expressed on myeloid cells (TREMs) and their ligand, peptidoglycan recognition protein 1 (PGLYRP-1), have been detected in secretions from patients with inflammatory diseases, which may lead to the formation of atherosclerotic plaques. Here, we aimed to analyze the association between salivary concentrations of soluble (s)TREM-1 and PGLYRP-1 with death and cardiovascular disease before and after kidney transplantation.

Materials And Methods: Saliva samples from 53 patients on dialysis were collected during their regular dental evaluation before treatment and after kidney transplantation.

Association of the salivary triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells/its ligand peptidoglycan recognition protein 1 axis with oral inflammation in kidney disease.

Background: Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (TREM-1) is a cell-surface receptor involved in amplification of inflammatory response to bacterial infections, along with its ligand peptidoglycan recognition protein 1 (PGLYRP1). TREM-1 is shed by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) to its soluble (s) form. The aim of the study is to investigate association of sTREM-1 and PGLYRP1 with oral inflammatory burden among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) at predialysis and posttransplantation stages.

Oral health in patients with renal disease: a longitudinal study from predialysis to kidney transplantation.

Objectives: The aim of this longitudinal study was to compare the oral health of chronic kidney disease patients at the predialysis (baseline) and post-transplantation (follow-up) stages and to investigate differences in oral health between diabetic nephropathy and other kidney disease patients at follow-up.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-three kidney disease patients (34 men) aged 31-86 years were followed up to 157 months. Clinical and radiological oral examinations, salivary and laboratory analyses, and oral health behavior questionnaires were conducted at the predialysis and follow-up stages at Helsinki University Hospital, Finland.

Periodontal Inflammatory Burden and Salivary Matrix Metalloproteinase-8 Concentration Among Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease at the Predialysis Stage.

Background: The aim of the present study is to compare periodontal inflammatory burden related to the salivary matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-8 concentration among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) at the predialysis stage.

Methods: Salivary samples from 118 predialysis patients were assayed for MMP-8 by immunofluorometric assay. Of the patients, 43 (36%) had diabetic nephropathy, whereas 75 (64%) had other kidney disease.