amyloidoses of the kidney and genitourinary tract

... ratio of 2:1 The most common sites of occurrence are the pancreas and lung, but it can also occur in other tissues and organs including the common bile duct, salivary glands, kidney, prostate and ... NH reviewed the report KN drafted the report and cared for the patient All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no ... copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal Authors’ contributions GN drafted the report TY, YK, RK, KZ, MT, SA and TT cared for the patient YY and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... Summary of Acquired Cystic Disease of the Kidney and Renal Cell Carcinoma Diseased kidneys shrink for years after the initiation of dialysis, but enlarge thereafter due to the development of acquired ... Cystic Disease of the Kidney and Renal Cell Carcinoma Complications of Long-Term Dialysis Isao Ishikawa Acquired Cystic Disease of the Kidney and Renal Cell Carcinoma Complications of Long-Term ... number of small cysts can be seen Above Acquired cystic disease of the kidney Below A mass and a hematoma are suspected in the right kidney Fig Resected kidney The world’s first clinical case of acquired...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... Disease of the Kidney Complications of Acquired Cystic Disease of the Kidney While the incidence of ACDK is high, there is no clinical problem unless there are any of the first four of the following ... microscopy of the cyst wall The cyst epithelium has a brush border and shows the characteristics of the proximal tubules Figure 11 shows a cross section of a kidney with ACDK Most of the renal ... Duration of dialysis and the prevalence of acquired cystic disease of the kidney Fig 10 Relationship between autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and acquired cystic disease of the kidney...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... kidney (above) with the decline in the function of the graft kidney Since the period of chronic renal failure was short (below), fewer cysts developed in the graft kidney than in the native kidney ... (SELDI-TOFMS) and ProteinChips These findings are being analyzed (Fig 30) Table Hypotheses of the pathogenic mechanisms of acquired cystic disease of the kidney Epithelial hyperplasia theory due ... follow-up of acquired cystic disease of the kidney The graphs show the frequencies of the grades of cysts during the follow-up Severe grade-4 cystic changes were observed in many of the male patients...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... between and 15 years after the initiation of dialysis The incidence of renal cell carcinoma increased with the duration of dialysis (Fig 44) According to the results of the survey in 2004, the duration ... Disease of the Kidney and Renal Cell Carcinoma expected to have renal cell carcinoma According to the data of Hughson et al [75], atypical cysts were found in 30%, and adenoma in 14%, of the kidneys ... caused by the level of interest of the attending physicians in renal cell carcinoma of dialysis patients, and whether or not they performed screening, rather than by regional differences in the incidence...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... (hypermethylation of its CpG island) may be acting as a tumor suppressor gene [123] In the epithelium of atypical cysts, the HGF and c-met of its receptors were intensely stained, and the staining of Bcl-2 ... are related to the growth, differentiation, and apoptosis of cells, and the concentrations of IL-6, IL-8, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) were high in the cyst fluid of acquired cystic ... 57 10.3 Hypotheses of the Pathogenic Mechanisms of Renal Cysts and Renal Cell Carcinoma I have developed the following hypotheses concerning the pathogenic mechanisms of renal cysts and renal cell...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... Note the yellow color of the surface of the resected kidney After renal transplantation, few cysts in the right kidney persisted, but those in the left kidney mostly disappeared except in the ... a short history of dialysis (Figs 85 and 86) The renal parenchyma appeared to be thickened in the area of the left kidney, as indicated by the arrow However, it was rare that the renal parenchyma ... Cystic Disease of the Kidney and Renal Cell Carcinoma Case 11 A 28-year-old man with chronic glomerulonephritis and with a history of dialysis of years and months This was an early case of clear cell...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... in the hilum of the kidney, and part of it protruded into the renal pelvis (blue arrow) Although not diagnosed by imaging techniques, there was another renal cell carcinoma of mm in diameter, and ... carcinoma and 86 Acquired Cystic Disease of the Kidney and Renal Cell Carcinoma Fig 121 Case 25 A 64-year-old woman with ADPKD and with a history of dialysis of 12 years and months This is a case of ... disease of the kidney with no mass Case 22 A 55-year-old woman with chronic glomerulonephritis and with a history of dialysis of 11 years and months The patient developed renal cell carcinoma and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... during the past 24 years, and the results of our studies on the etiology of the disease The history of this research is summarized in Table 17 Figure 141 is a photograph taken at the residence of ... Took of ce as a professor in the Department of Nephrology, Kanazawa Medical University, and as a professor at the Medical Research Institute September 1994: Took of ce as the chief professor in the ... permission of Oxford University Press) 96 Acquired Cystic Disease of the Kidney and Renal Cell Carcinoma Fig 140 Case 34 HE stain, ×100 was observed near the hilum of the left kidney, and slight...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... cell carcinoma of the native kidney after renal transplantation A case report and review of the literature Nephron 58:354–358 53 Ishikawa I (1992) Acquired cysts and neoplasms of the kidneys in renal ... Ishikawa I (2005) Kidney volume and development of acquired cystic disease of the kidney in diabetic nephropathy after the start of hemodialysis (in Japanese with English abstract) J Kanazawa ... end-stage renal disease: analysis of data from the United States, Europe, and Australia and New Zealand J Am Soc Nephrol 14:197–207 88 Ishikawa I (1988) Adenocarcinoma of the kidney in chronic hemodialysis...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 01:22

... evaluate the goodness -of- fit of the hypothesized measurement model for responses to the subscales of the KDCS and SF-36 instruments when analyzed together; and given acceptable goodnessof-fit in ... (b) the intercepts of the measured subscales (scalar invariance); (c) the variances and covariance of the KDCS and SF-36 factors; (d) the unique error variances of the measured subscales; and ... criteria to judge the goodness -of- fit of the hypothesized two-factor CFA model As measures of absolute fit, we examined the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) and the standardized root...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Evaluation and Treatment Doctors usually assess the presence and degree of swelling by pressing on the person's shins If the skin retains the impression of the doctor's finger, extra fluid is present The ... person's symptoms and the doctor's physical examination suggest whether the kidneys, liver, or heart is the cause, but doctors also obtain a urinalysis and blood tests of liver and kidney function ... are most severe at the opening of the urethra, urethritis may be the cause In men with a penile discharge, urethritis is often the cause If burning affects mainly the vagina and the woman has a...

Ngày tải lên: 28/07/2014, 23:22

... attention to the pathological aspects, and acquired the histological images for illustration EPMW conceived of this study and supervised the drafting and overall structure of the manuscript All the authors ... conceived the idea of the study, helped to draft the manuscript and helped to acquire the CT images JP helped to draft the manuscript and with the literature search KH helped to draft the manuscript, ... (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) of the thorax and the abdomen MRI of the kidney revealed a large 13 cm, right encapsulated, lower-aspect renal mass with tumour thrombus extending into the right...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... Krejci and colleagues confirm that the unrestricted use of even ‘low-dose’ AVP may result in ‘overconstriction’, in particular in the hepato-splanchnic region and the kidney Furthermore, the authors’ ... infusion The study by Krejci and colleagues therefore raises the question of whether AVP compares favorably with catecholamines In a complementary investigation the same group compared the regional ... activation of the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase) probably did not assume major importance Finally, as the authors themselves acknowledge, although labelled ‘low dose’, the infusion...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... oxidase (gulo) from the kidney of P annectens and to determine the mRNA and protein expression of gulo/Gulo in the kidney and other organs during three phases of aestivation The novel discovery ... studied the differential gene expression in the liver of P annectens at the end of the induction phase and the beginning of the maintenance phase Their results confirmed the importance of reconstruction ... from the primitive pharynx The study of the respiratory system of the lungfish is not only of special interest in our understanding the functional and structural design of the lungs in the early...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:55

... advice, and encouragement to my thesis completion Many thanks are also given to all other teachers of the College of Aquaculture and Fisheries, and especially to those of the Department of Applied ... Because the mouth size of fry was larger and suitable with Cladocera and Copepod size Furthermore, Copepod swims slowly and irregularly and moves zigzac (William and Dennis, 2012) and the movement of ... through the setae on the endites of the limbs Some species of the Sididae (e.g Sida crystallina) and Daphniidae (e.g Simocephalus spp.) attach themselves to vegetation or other substrates while they...

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2015, 15:34

... Following the suggestions of scientific literature on the advantages of the compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability of the 980 nm Diode Lasers, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of ... are reduced [17,18] The lasers normally adopted offer the enormous advantage of being conveyed in a fibre, which serves as the working tip at the end of the handpiece The use of flexible, length-adjustable ... question the efficacy of the 980nm Laser for photosclerosis of lesions and areas with little melanin and hemoglobin pigmentation [7] Furthermore, to avoid exaggerated fluences and thermal damage to the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... (CO2), ammonia (NH3) and methane (CH4) into the atmosphere ♦ Most of the H2O vapor condensed to form the oceans ♦ As a result of three key processes (outlined on the next slide), the air ended up ... grew much warmer, thereby preventing freezing and accelerating surface “weathering” Except for Oxygen, almost all of the Earth’s atmosphere today Evolution of the Earth Process and Equation” its ... Multi-celled organisms appeared, and some of these evolved into soft-bodied worm-like animals with a variety of organs, and still later into the first hard-shelled creatures capable of leaving fossils ♦...

Ngày tải lên: 04/04/2013, 10:51

... techniques The report then describes the recent status of each of the issues RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INCREASING OZONE CONCENTRATION Ozone generation Method and scale of use Table summarizes the ... concentration and decomposition RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN OZONATION TECHNOLOGY Objectives of ozonation The main objectives of ozonation are to reduce trihalomethane and to remove taste and odor These ... treate the cryptosporidium parvum by chlorine disinfection, the turbidity at the exit of the sand filtration basin is set to a turbidity of 0.1 degrees or less However, this method is neither safe...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... proposed the necessity of city-wide recycling system and other measures The fluctuation of water consumption in this period reflects the people’s consideration on the WCP introduced The people ... relocation of large-scale factories in Tokyo such as Toyosu Gas, Ebisu Brewery, Kirin Beer and others to the outskirts of Tokyo Another major factor was the reduction of water use in the factory ... conservation They also continuously make efforts to promote the utilization of SWT devices including the distribution of free SWT-tap developed by them as shown in Fig.7 On the other hand, for triggering...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17