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Adverse effects of left ventricular hypertrophy in the reduction of endpoints in NIDDM with the angiotensin II antagonist losartan (RENAAL) study
We explored the impact of baseline left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and losartan treatment on renal and cardiovascular (CV) events in 1,513 patients from the Reduction of Endpoints in NIDDM with the Angioten...
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40th EASD Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
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Irbesartan normalises the deficiency in glomerular nephrin expression in a model of diabetes and hypertension
Aims/hypothesis. The location of nephrin has been identified as the slit-diaphragm of the glomerular podocyte. Recent evidence suggests that nephrin could play a key role in the function of the g...
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White coat hypertension and pregnancy outcome
The presence and outcome effect of white coat hypertension in pregnancy was determined with 24-h ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring. Sixty women presenting with high clinic BP (⩾140/90 mm Hg) in the sec...
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What is the role of lipoprotein abnormalities and platelet aggregation defects in cardiovascular disease in chronic dialysis patients?
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Effects of residual renal function in haemodialysis patients
Thirty-six haemodialysis patients on treatment for more than six months were studied for residual renal function (RRF). Twenty patients were anuric. The remaining 16 patients with RRF excreted 35–1600 ml urine...
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CAPD versus haemodialysis: A comparison in the same patients
Most studies comparing CAPD and haemodialysis (HD) were done in different populations, matched for sex and age. The present report compared 13 non-diabetic end-stage renal failure patients who were treated for...
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Multiple bone fractures following an epileptic seizure in renal osteodystrophy
Seizure induced bone fractures in patients with renal osteodystrophy are uncommon. A case is described where multiple bone fractures occurred following convulsions which appeared shortly after haemodialysis.
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Inhibition of Binding of Escherichia coli to Human Peritoneal Macrophages by Peritoneal Effluent from Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis
Several investigators have studied the reasons for the high incidence of infections in patients treated with intermittent peritoneal dialysis (IPD) or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). These fa...
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Effect of cimetidine on digoxin disposition in peptic ulcer patients
Cimetidine inhibits the renal tubular secretion of creatinine and digoxin is partly excreted by the same pathway. In order to investigate a possible interaction between the two drugs, a randomized cross-over a...