The hypertensive index may predict the likelihood of kidney function improvement following renal revascularization for renal artery stenosis. The hypertensive index may distinguish which patients with ...

The results demonstrate that autoregulation is primarily dependent on the arteriovenous pressure difference and that it is diminished or abolished when this pressure is lower than approximately 90 mm.

1 School of Medicine, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía, Colombia 2 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Fundación Cardio Infantil—Instituto de Cardiología, Bogotá, Colombia Objective: Renal autoregulation, ...

Impaired renal autoregulation in obesity, diabetes and hypertension (HTN) causes elevated glomerular capillary pressure and glomerular hyperfiltration, initiating progressive glomerulosclerosis (GS), ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health challenge that affects more than 800 million people worldwide. 1 CKD can be caused by a variety of disease processes. Many causes are difficult to ...

Type 2 diabetes medication Ozempic has been linked to a host of potential benefits outside of blood sugar management, including weight loss and helping to break addictions. Ozempic side effects tend ...

Introduction: Mechanical stresses and strains exerted on the glomerular cells have emerged as potentially influential factors in the progression of glomerular disease. Renal autoregulation, the ...

The present studies examine the consequences of the hemodynamic changes associated with approximately 5/6 renal ablation in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR), a strain that normally does not ...

AKI or acute kidney injury is a complex clinical disorder frequently seen in hospitalized critically ill patients. 1 It is defined as a functional or structural kidney abnormality in which a patient ...

Renal vein thrombosis (RVT) is when a blood clot develops anywhere along the renal vein. This is the vein that drains blood from the kidneys. RVT is rare but can be life threatening. People with renal ...