[SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with chronic kidney disease : from clinical trials to guidelines and new prospects for clinical practice].

Sodium-glucose cotransporter type 2 inhibitors (iSGLT2 or gliflozins) exert their antidiabetic action through a specific renal mechanism, by inhibiting tubular glucose reabsorption. These agents have proven their efficacy to reduce major cardiovascular events and hospitalisation for heart failure, but also the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD), in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) at high risk, independently of glucose control. While the glucose-lowering effect of iSGLT2 is decreasing with the decline of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), both cardiovascular and renal protections remain present until an eGFR as low as 30 ml/min/1,73 m².

Analytical Performance Specifications for 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Examinations.

Currently the 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) concentration is thought to be the best estimate of the vitamin D status of an individual. Unfortunately, its measurement remains complex, despite recent technological advances. We evaluated the biological variation (BV) of 25(OH)D in order to set analytical performance specifications (APS) for measurement uncertainty (MU).

Proteinuria in COVID-19: prevalence, characterization and prognostic role.

Background: Proteinuria has been commonly reported in patients with COVID-19. However, only dipstick tests have been frequently used thus far. Here, the quantification and characterization of proteinuria were investigated and their association with mortality was assessed.

[Kidney injury in COVID-19].

The SARS-CoV-2 virus causes a respiratory distress syndrome, the main symptom of COVID-19 (for "COronaVIrus Disease 2019"). This infectious disease has been causing a major health and socio-economic pandemic since December 2019. The pulmonary alveolus is regarded as the main target of SARS-CoV-2.

Adverse Events in Intensive Care and Continuing Care Units During Bed-Bath Procedures: The Prospective Observational NURSIng during critical carE (NURSIE) Study.

Objectives: Standard nursing interventions, especially bed-baths, in ICUs can lead to complications or adverse events defined as a physiologic change that can be life-threatening or that prolongs hospitalization. However, the frequency and type of these adverse events are rarely reported in the literature. The primary objective of our study was to describe the proportion of patients experiencing at least one serious adverse event during bed-bath.

Development and Validation of a Modified Full Age Spectrum Creatinine-Based Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate : A Cross-sectional Analysis of Pooled Data.

Background: The Chronic Kidney Disease in Children Study (CKiD) equation for children and the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation for adults are recommended serum creatinine (SCr)-based calculations for estimating glomerular filtration rate (GFR). However, these equations, as well as their combination, have limitations, notably the problem of implausible changes in GFR during the transition from adolescence to adulthood and overestimation of GFR in young adults. The full age spectrum (FAS) equation addresses these issues but overestimates GFR when SCr levels are low.

[Maternal mortality due to cardiovascular disease in France 2013-2015].

Between 2013 and 2015, cardiovascular diseases became one of the two leading causes of maternal mortality, with 36 deaths (13.7% of maternal deaths). The overall maternal mortality ratio for cardiovascular diseases is 1.

Estimation of the glomerular filtration rate in children and young adults by means of the CKD-EPI equation with age-adjusted creatinine values.

The CKD-EPI creatinine-based estimation equation for glomerular filtration rate (GFR) cannot be used in children, overestimates GFR in young adults, and its combination with the KDIGO recommended pediatric CKiD (Schwartz bedside) equation causes implausible increases in estimated GFR when switching from pediatric to adult care. By establishing sex-specific creatinine growth curves for children and young adults, creatinine levels of children and young adults below age 40 years were adjusted with 40 as assigned age and applied in the CKD-EPI equation. Validation was performed in 4005 children (2-17 years) and 3309 young adults (18-39 years) using metrics based on bias, precision, and accuracy including percentage of estimates within 30% (P) of measured GFR (mGFR).

How to interpret an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in 2020?

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as abnormalities of kidney structure and function proven to be chronic. The prevalence of CKD in the majority of studies is 10%-16%, neglecting the chronicity character. Jonsson et al.

Humanized anti CD-20 as an alternative in chronic management of relapsing thrombotic thrombocytopenic microangiopathy resistant to rituximab due to anti chimeric antibody.

Acquired Immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (iTTP) is considered among clinical situations that needs not only urgent treatment in acute setting but also long term management to prevent relapses. Important progresses have been made in management of these patients that are definitely associated with reduced mortality and relapse rate. However, there are still noticeable percentage of patients that may relapse despite application of modern treatment strategies including preemptive rituximab infusions.

Plasmacytoid dendritic cells proliferation associated with acute myeloid leukemia: phenotype profile and mutation landscape.

Neoplasms involving plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells (pDCs) include Blastic pDC Neoplasms (BPDCN) and other pDC proliferations, where pDCs are associated with myeloid malignancies: most frequently Chronic MyeloMonocytic Leukemia (CMML) but also Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), hereafter named pDC-AML. We aimed to determine the reactive or neoplastic origin of pDCs in pDC-AML, and their link with the CD34+ blasts, monocytes or conventional DCs (cDCs) associated in the same sample, by phenotypic and molecular analyses (targeted NGS, 70 genes). We compared 15 pDC-AML at diagnosis with 21 BPDCN and 11 normal pDCs from healthy donors.

Obesity, Diabetes, Coffee, Tea, and Cannabis Use Alter Risk for Alcohol-Related Cirrhosis in 2 Large Cohorts of High-Risk Drinkers.

Introduction: Sustained high alcohol intake is necessary but not sufficient to produce alcohol-related cirrhosis. Identification of risk factors, apart from lifetime alcohol exposure, would assist in discovery of mechanisms and prediction of risk.

Methods: We conducted a multicenter case-control study (GenomALC) comparing 1,293 cases (with alcohol-related cirrhosis, 75.

[How to estimate glomerular filtration rate in the context of drug dosage adaptation ?].

In chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, the dosage of many medications should be adapted according to the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). GFR estimation is obtained by using creatinine-based equations. Many different equations have been proposed in the literature, and they don't systematically lead to the same result in terms of drug dosage.

A novel method for creatinine adjustment makes the revised Lund-Malmö GFR estimating equation applicable in children.

The aim of this study was to establish creatinine growth curves separately for males and females that can be used to adjust childhood levels of serum creatinine to corresponding adult levels. Linear regression with fractional polynomials of age as independent variable was used to construct creatinine growth curves for a reference cohort (n = 83,157 samples from Belgium and Sweden, age 2-40 years). Adjusted creatinine obtained from the growth curves was used to improve accuracy of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) based on the Lund-Malmö revised (LMR) equation in children.

[Therapeutic innovation in nephrology : 10 years of progress].

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) impairs the quality of life and increases the risk for cardiovascular morbimortality. Intensive research is conducted in order to slow down CKD development and progression. During the past decade, a better understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms of glomerular diseases has highlighted the benefits of rituximab.

Flow modification on the internal carotid artery bifurcation region and A1 segment after M1-internal carotid artery flow diverter deployment.

Background: Clinical and hemodynamic consequences of flow diverters extending from the M1 to the internal carotid artery (ICA), covering the A1 segment, have rarely been investigated. We aimed to provide angiographic and clinical data about flow modifications on the covered A1.

Methods: Consecutive patients receiving M1-ICA flow diverters for unruptured aneurysms were collected from our prospective database (2014-2020).

Urinary strips for protein assays: easy to do but difficult to interpret!

Urine samples can be readily obtained from patients in everyday clinical practice. Therefore, the availability of urine allows physicians to obtain relevant clinical information in a timely manner. Since the measurement of urinary protein levels is essential in diagnosing and treating a host of diseases, the potential detection of urinary proteins by urinary strips in an easy, quick, and cheap way is very attractive.

The percentage of non-oxidized PTH concentration remains stable over a period of 1 year in hemodialyzed patients.

Introduction: Non-oxidized (n-ox) PTH could better reflect PTH activity. We have evaluated the evolution of n-ox PTH and intact PTH (iPTH) in hemodialyzed (HD) patients over a period of 1 year.

Material And Methods: We measured iPTH and n-ox PTH in 66 stable HD patients and we measured iPTH and n-ox PTH at baseline and after 1, 3, 6 and 12 months.

Correction to: Efficacy of Ronopterin (VAS203) in Patients with Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (NOSTRA phase III trial): study protocol of a confirmatory, placebocontrolled, randomised, double blind, multi-centre study.

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