Findings suggest that renal function assessment in young and healthy males may provide incremental information on cardiovascular risk than a single measure of traditional risk factors. European Heart Journal
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with renal damage incurred higher direct costs, but did not experience a poorer quality of life, according to this study. Rheumatology
Topiramate (TPM) therapies for epilepsy or migraine are long-time therapies with unknown mechanisms and special side effects. TPM influences cholesterol (TC) and lipoprotein serum levels. Headache
This editorial review summarizes the latest information on the bone-renal axis, and how it is affected in chronic kidney disease. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
Polyomavirus-associated nephropathy (PVAN) is diagnosed in a 36-year-old woman who had a deceased-donor renal transplant. PVAN, often diagnosed within 12 months of transplant, developed 8 years later. Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology
Acute renal failure and chronic kidney failure accounted for 221,000 and 19,000 US hospitalizations in 2004, respectively. What are the national trends in kidney disease hospitalizations? Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
