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Rev Med Chil
May 2024
Internos carrera de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Unlabelled: Hyponatremia is the most common hydroelectrolyte disorder in hospitalized patients. It is unclear whether there are differences between severe hyponatremia (<125 mEq/L) and very severe hyponatremia (<115 mEq/L) in terms of etiology, response to therapy, and mortality.
Aim: Describe the etiology, symptoms, response to treatment and mortality of hospitalized adults with severe and very severe hyponatremia.
Kidney Int
December 2024
Department of Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan. Electronic address:
Red yeast rice, traditionally used in Asian cuisine and increasingly marketed as a dietary supplement for cholesterol management, has recently been linked to kidney dysfunction in Japan. In late 2023 to early 2024, multiple cases involving specific Beni-koji (red yeast rice) tablets from three different Beni-koji preparations, prompted a safety reevaluation. Although citrinin, a known nephrotoxin of red yeast rice, was not produced by the implicated strains, new safety concerns emerged.
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November 2024
Department of Endocrinology, the Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, the First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming650000, China.
This article reports a patient presenting with"extremely low uric acid levels in blood and urine"clinically along with reviewing relevant literature to consider a diagnosis of xanthinuria. Peripheral blood samples of the patient and her family were further collected for xanthine dehydrogenase(XDH) gene sequencing, showing that the patient had compound heterozygous mutations in exon 19:c.1995_2006del12(p.
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November 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 2-7 Daigaku-Machi, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan.
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