Published in Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia
Published in Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia
Published in Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent complication of coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19). Therefore, we decided to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis with data from the literature to relate the development of COVID-19 associated-AKI with comorbidities, medications, and the impact of mechanical ventilation. We performed a systematic revi...
Published in Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia
Kidney transplant (KT) recipients have a high risk for adverse outcomes from infections, such as COVID-19. We have retrospectively reviewed all KT recipients with documented COVID-19 between March 1, 2020, and March 15, 2021, and analyzed patients' characteristics, clinical course, treatment, and outcomes. We identified 123 patients, 72% were male,...
Published in Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia
Published in Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia
Published in Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia
Adenine phosphoribosyl transferase (APRT) deficiency has great implications on graft survival in kidney transplant patients. This systematic review investigated the diagnostic pattern, treatment approach, and kidney transplant outcomes among kidney transplant patients with adenine phosphoribosyl transferase deficiency. Articles reporting the APRT e...
Published in Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia
The reported incidence and fatality rate of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in patients receiving chronic dialysis are higher than in the general population. We sought to study the outcomes following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diagnosis in patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis (HD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD) in a si...
Published in Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia
Sensitization to human leukocyte antigen is a barrier to. Few data have been published on desensitization using polyvalent human intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) alone. We retrospectively reviewed the of 45 patients with a positive complement-dependent cytotoxicity crossmatch (CDCXM) or flow cytometry crossmatch (FCXM) against living donors from J...
Published in Jornal brasileiro de nefrologia : 'orgao oficial de Sociedades Brasileira e Latino-Americana de Nefrologia
Members of the Herpesviridae family have been described in patients with systemic lupus erythematous (SLE), but the clinical impact on renal function is not well known. HSV1, HSV2, VZV, EBV, CMV, HHV-6, HHV-7, and HHV-8 were evaluated by molecular biology on admission in blood samples from 40 consecutive SLE patients hospitalized for lupus activity...
