A 70-year-old man with weight loss, dry mouth and renal insufficiencyBassam Alchi
Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medicine and Dental Sciences, Japan
Nephrol Dial Transplant 19:2661-4. 2004
- Osteopontin expression in acute renal allograft rejection
Bassam Alchi
Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan
Kidney Int 67:886-96. 2005
..Osteopontin (OPN) is a potent chemoattractant for mononuclear cells that is up-regulated in various inflammatory states of the kidney. The role of OPN and its expression in human renal allograft rejection are unknown...
- Recurrent light and heavy chain deposition disease after renal transplantation
Bassam Alchi
Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan
Nephrol Dial Transplant 20:1487-91. 2005
- Collagenofibrotic glomerulopathy: clinicopathologic overview of a rare glomerular disease
Bassam Alchi
Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan
Am J Kidney Dis 49:499-506. 2007
..A definite diagnosis can be established when typical histological findings are supported by immunohistochemistry for specific collagen types and electron microscopy with special staining methods. No specific treatment is available...
- Immunohistochemical evidence of activated lectin pathway in kidney allografts with peritubular capillary C4d deposition
Naofumi Imai
Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan
Nephrol Dial Transplant 21:2589-95. 2006
..We have recently reported the in situ role of the later phase of the complement cascade in renal allografts with C4d deposition; however, the initial process prior to C4d deposition is yet to be resolved...
- Leiomyosarcoma of the abdominal aorta: a rare cause of renovascular hypertension
Seitaro Iguchi
Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Japan
Hypertens Res 30:279-83. 2007
..The patient developed renal failure due to bilateral renal infarction, and died 3 months after her initial presentation with ischemic colitis. Postmortem examination confirmed the diagnosis...
- Mortality predictors after 10 years of dialysis: a prospective study of Japanese hemodialysis patients
Junya Ajiro
Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Asahimachi Dori, Niigata, Japan
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2:653-60. 2007
..This work aimed to examine the predictive value for death of various clinical variables after long-term hemodialysis (HD)...
- SM22alpha: the novel phenotype marker of injured glomerular epithelial cells in anti-glomerular basement membrane nephritis
Asa Ogawa
Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Institute of Nephrology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan
Nephron Exp Nephrol 106:e77-87. 2007
..SM22alpha is a 22-kDa cytoskeletal protein that is exclusively expressed in smooth muscle cells. We investigated the localization of SM22alpha at mRNA and protein levels, and its pathological significance in anti-GBM nephritis kidneys...
- Renovascular hypertension: a unique cause of unilateral focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Bassam Alchi
Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Japan
Hypertens Res 29:203-7. 2006
..This case illustrates the heterogeneous effect of the renin-angiotensin system on either kidney in patients with renovascular hypertension due to unilateral renal artery stenosis...
- A novel type of encephalopathy associated with mushroom Sugihiratake ingestion in patients with chronic kidney diseases
Fumitake Gejyo
Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan
Kidney Int 68:188-92. 2005
..While the exact etiology of this encephalopathy remained mysterious, we aimed to describe its clinical features...
- New advances in renal amyloidosis
Shinichi Nishi
Blood Purification Center, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, 1 754 Asahimachi dori, Niigata 951 8520, Japan
Clin Exp Nephrol 12:93-101. 2008
..Clinical advances have been made in various aspects of renal amyloidosis...
- The morphological compensatory change of peritubular capillary network in chronic allograft rejection
Shinichi Nishi
Blood Purification Center, Niigata University Hospital, Niigata City, Japan
Clin Transplant 19:7-11. 2005
..01). In this study, we provided pathological evidence for the compensatory interstitial and glomerular hemodynamic alterations in kidney graft with chronic rejection and the condition as single kidney...
