Cardiovascular morbidity and long term mortality associated with in hospital small increases of serum creatinine.

Background: The cardiovascular risk associated with an increase in serum creatinine below the acute kidney injury (AKI) threshold, during hospitalization, has not been studied in depth. We assessed patients' features and outcomes associated with these changes.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study of 12,493 consecutive patients admitted to hospital throughout 12 months.

Characteristics of the Relationship of Kidney Dysfunction with Cardiovascular Disease in High Risk Patients with Diabetes.

We aimed at comparing the relationship of reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality between high risk patients with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The cross-sectional study evaluated 16,298 participants (1,627 T2DM) acutely admitted to hospital. The longitudinal study comprised 7,508 patients (673 with diabetes and 6,835 without).

Association of reduced kidney function with cardiovascular disease and mortality in elderly patients: comparison between the new Berlin initiative study (BIS1) and the MDRD study equations.

Background: New creatinine based equations for estimating glomerular proposed for aged subjects have not been assessed in their association of reduced eGFR with cardiovascular (CV) morbidity or all cause (AC) mortality.

Patients: All subjects ≥70 years old (2998) who had been admitted to the hospital during a 12 month period were examined.

Methods: In a cohort study we applied the new Berlin Initiative Study (BIS1) equation.

Thrombotic microangiopathic nephropathy, pulmonary hypertension and nephromegaly: case report of a patient treated with endothelin receptor antagonist.

The coexistence of thrombotic microangiopathic nephropathy and pulmonary hypertension has only been described in association with malignancy and its treatment. Here we describe a 14-year-old boy with no prior medical history who presented with hypertension, proteinuria and nephromegaly, and then developed progressive pulmonary hypertension. Renal histology showed lesions consistent with glomerulopathy due to thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA).