Publications by authors named "Rajendran Padmaraj"

Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) frequently complicates severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) among the critically ill. We studied clinical profile and risk factors predicting mortality in SAP-AKI.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a prospective observational study of 68 patients with SAP-AKI from September 2015 to September 2019.

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Introduction: Infection-related glomerulonephritis (IRGN) is associated with glomerular immune complex deposition along with complement activation. Steroids may attenuate glomerular injury and thereby improve renal outcomes.

Methods: We randomly assigned patients who had biopsy-proven IRGN and serum creatinine greater than 1.

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Introduction: Several months into the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there remains a paucity of data on the behavior of the disease in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD). Here, we describe the clinical presentations, biochemical profile, and outcomes of 183 such patients from a large tertiary-care center in South India.

Materials And Methods: This prospective, observational study, included all patients with COVID-19 and ESKD who received at least one session of hemodialysis at our center, from the start of the outbreak to July 9, 2020.

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Introduction: In this observational study, we describe the change in the clinical profile and outcome of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) over the course of the outbreak, among patients requiring dialysis, including chronic haemodialysis therapy.

Methods: This is a single-centre prospective observational study of patients with COVID-19 (as confirmed by RT-PCR) and renal failure requiring haemodialysis. Their clinical profiles and outcomes were analysed, vis-à-vis the changing disease severity.

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Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), an important cause of acute kidney injury (AKI), is characterized by dysregulation of the alternative complement pathway. Autoantibodies to factor H (FH), a chief regulator of this pathway, account for a distinct subgroup. While high anti-FH titers predict relapse, they do not correlate well with disease activity and their functional characterization is required.

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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of congenital infections in humans occurring in 1% of all liveborns. Symptomatic congenital CMV infection involves multiple systems and causes significant morbidity and mortality in newborns. Isolated CMV infection of the kidneys in a living infant has not been reported in literature.

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Article Synopsis
  • Nephrotic syndrome (NS) in children has been linked to genetic factors, specifically HLA alleles, with a study focusing on this relationship in south India.
  • HLA genotyping was conducted on 183 children with NS (76 steroid sensitive and 107 steroid resistant) and 91 healthy controls, finding several significant associations between specific HLA alleles and NS.
  • The study identified strong susceptibility links for alleles DRB1*07 and DQB1*02, while protective associations were noted for DRB1*10 and DQB1*05, emphasizing the complex role of these genetic markers in the disease.
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