Renal blood flow changes throughout the day in tandem with the body's circadian clock, with the increasing flow during daytime hours and decreasing flow in the evening and into the night.

Poor kidney function negatively affects cerebral blood flow and may be linked to both stroke and dementia independent of known cardiovascular disease risk factors, a population-based Rotterdam ...

Prerenal: Caused by decreased blood flow to the kidneys (like dehydration or heart failure). Prerenal AKI is mainly due to reduced blood flow, decreased renal perfusion and changes in renal blood ...

Kidney Function and Cerebral Blood Flow: The Rotterdam Study. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology , 2015; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2014111118 Cite This Page : ...

Similarly, Conte et al. reported improvement in the renal blood flow, GFR, and urine output in the dopamine-treated patients in their study of eight subjects with cyclosporine-induced acute renal ...

People with apple-shaped bodies tend to have lower kidney function, lower kidney blood flow, and higher blood pressure within the kidneys than people with pear-shaped bodies. The findings may help ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Results of a small, randomized, exploratory study suggest that serelaxin signals a potential renal benefit in patients with chronic HF. Serelaxin, also known as RLX030 (Novartis ...

Credit: Thinkstock Poor thyroid function can lead to reduced GFR and decreased renal blood flow that can result in ischemic kidney injury. Subclinical hypothyroidism is common among patients with ...

In both parts of the study, vascular resistance was calculated as the mean arterial pressure divided by the blood velocity, which was measured by Doppler ultrasound in renal and segmental arteries.

After a four-week course of the vasodilator hormone relaxin, kidney function and blood flow immediately improved in lab rats genetically altered to model polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a life ...