Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

For the almost 520,000 Americans who will undergo treatment this year, the process leaves little room for a full life. An ...

If a specific method were available for producing selective inhibition of the renal tubular reabsorption ... known to have hypertension and coronary-artery disease for 8 years.

Until disease has robbed the kidneys of 90 percent of their function, renal failure can often go unnoticed ... A vascular surgeon permanently connected the artery and vein in Thomas’s left forearm, ...

The patient had a normal appetite, no weight loss and no change in bowel habits. She had received several courses of analgesics and antispasmodics on an assumption of left renal colic and ... a ...

However, I was lucky to receive a kidney from a living related donor, my own loving sister. Receiving a kidney from a living ...

CHANDIGARH: 87 years old, Tara Chand (name changed), resident of Panchkula, had undergone a non-surgical procedure for aortic ...

Conversely, only 2/157 patients (1.3%) with normal SE underwent angiography ... and LV segments in all three vascular territories—left anterior descending (LAD), left circumflex (LCx) and right ...

In a cohort study of 232 236 patients, patients with an eGFR of <15 mL/min/1.73 m 2 (not on dialysis) had a 2.5 times greater risk of in-hospital mortality after acute ischaemic stroke compared with ...

Significant MR with left ventricular ... diabetes, renal impairment, heart failure (New York Heart Association Class I–IV), liver disease, prior stroke, a history of atrial fibrillation, known ...